A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries) (English and Spanish Edition) 1st Edition

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The only up-to-date frequency dictionary of Spanish currently available, this is an invaluable tool for all learners of Spanish that provides a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language.

Based on a twenty million word corpus evenly divided between spoken, fiction and non-fiction texts from both Spain and Latin America, the Dictionary provides a detailed frequency-based list, as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indexes to ensure maximum ease of access to the information and efficiency of use.

All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence and, where applicable, an indication of major register variation. The Dictionary also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics, such as animals, weather, materials, and family terms.

A CD version is available to purchase separately. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research work

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Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Linguistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. Has published numerous articles on historical syntax and syntactic and lexical variations in Spanish and Portuguese, linguistic databases, and corpus linguistics. Creator of the Corpus del Espanol (www.corpusdelespanol.org), a 100-million word corpus of Spanish

Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries
Paperback: 296 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (January 7, 2006)
Language: English, Spanish
ISBN-10: 0415334292
ISBN-13: 978-0415334297
Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.7 x 9.7 inches
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Maestra 028

Such a smart approach!

August 18, 2013

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The concept of this book is brilliant. Majority of book is Frequency Index of 5000 most common words in Spanish, in order. Within this section are really interesting extra boxes of frequency info by topic (example: Animals, and the top 50 most common animal words are given in order). After the Frequency Index, an Alphabetical Index and Part of Speech Index is each given, translations appear for all entries.

Fantastic for Spanish teachers and learners alike (although college or adult learners would probably get the most from this, not sure high school students would benefit from it on its own). I will be using this in adapting my curriculum for my middle school Spanish students. We do not use a textbook so I am lucky enough to be able to bring in resources and get creative. By focusing more on the most frequently used words in Spanish, I'm hoping they will experience understanding Spanish in "the real world" more quickly.

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May 9, 2018

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Fantastic. After working my way through this book and memorizing the vocab, I am able to understand about 80-90% of what I read, like when reading a news article or something. A great resource for those who are pursuing fluency but don't want to waste time learning words that are uncommon and therefore not very useful. Only complaint is that the binding seems to be sub-par, a few pages came out after just a week or two. Not a big deal, I just stuck them back in.

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K11111111

It tells you what words to learn and don't waste time on infrequently used words

February 12, 2018

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If your truly going to learn Spanish, this is a must have. It tells you what words to learn and don't waste time on infrequently used words.

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Joan Liut

Stellar idea, needs expansion and better editing

March 27, 2012

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A vocabulary list/dictionary ordered by frequency of word use is such a valuable tool that I really think the authors should make it a personal priority to triple the length to 15,000 words- at a minimum. 30,000 words would be even better if feasible.

Another priority is to edit it, since it contains many errors and some questionable translations. I, at any rate, noted that the word "tejer" is translated "to sew or weave". I have learned "tejer" as meaning "to knit" (weaving may well be another meaning) and "coser" as meaning "to sew". I use those words with native speakers. Many of the typos I see are clearly the result of uncorrected computer scanning.

I would not recommend the resource to those who don't want to master the Spanish language. Tourists may find the terms less practical than expected- a well designed tourist course will have more practical vocabulary lists. I noticed the term for "bathroom" wasn't even featured.

I strongly believe that anyone composing a vocabulary list for a course in Spanish should consult this list before including a term, especially for first year Spanish. If a word is going to be taught to students, it needs to have some reasonable frequency. Coming up with categories and then shoehorning ones vocuabluary choices into that set of categories is what leads to giving students obscure and inappropriate terms to learn. It would be better to make sure that each and every word will be useful in the real world, and this resource can be part of that judgement (though other factors do come into consideration besides just frequency).

If suitably improved, this can be one of the most valuable tools that the serious student or teacher of Spanish could own. Even as is, it is well worth a rental or a purchase.

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Ken B

Absolutely fantastic; this is how you should study vocabulary

February 26, 2012

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This book represents, in my opinion, the best way to study Spanish vocabulary because it's so efficient. You have the top 5,000 Spanish words ordered by frequency, meaning if you begin at #1 and go on from there, you're learning words in the right order--meaning, the ones that you are most likely to need when reading, listening to or speaking Spanish.

Here's an example of how powerful this method is. The authors make use of a 20,000,000 word corpus, and show how many times each word appears within that corpus. Believe it or not, the top 10 words (with el, la, etc. as one word) account for 7,014,177 words within that corpus--so 35% of the text overall! And by reaching the top 50, you will have covered over 50% of the corpus, or 10,161,171 words. In other words, half of the Spanish you will ever speak, or read, or hear may be represented just in that list. However, they also are kind enough to provide thematic vocabulary lists that cover animals, parts of the body, food, clothes, sports, the weather, professions and more. And as if that weren't enough, they also rank the words by their parts of speech at the end, allowing you to study the most common nouns or adjectives, for example.

Unfortunately, often Spanish textbooks will give you thematic lists as your main vocabulary builder. For example, suppose that (as I did) you have a lesson on family words. Well, only 6 family-related words (hijo, padre, madre, etc.) can be found within the top 1,000 Spanish words. Why should beginning students have to learn words like abuela (#2,408) or sobrino (#3,593)? Likewise, the most frequent specific clothing word in Spanish, traje (suit), is ranked at #1,710. Again, it's plain silly for beginning students to learn zapato (1,932) or camiseta (#4,427) when there are far more important words out there.

What I did, and what I recommend to any beginning Spanish student, is to go through the first 1,000 words and learn them. You cover a massive, massive chunk of the Spanish language in doing so. I feel great knowing that I've studied the top thousand words that I would need to use in Spanish, at least according to their list. Ultimately I'd like to cover the next 500, or even up to #2000 or more.

There is one little quirk about some of these Routledge frequency dictionaries, including the Spanish dictionary. They adjust the raw frequency ratings based on how well it's represented across the sources; e.g. if a word is common in one element of the corpus but rare in many others, they reduce its ranking. While they're smart people and this makes sense, I would perhaps prefer that they stick with the raw frequency (as they do with the German dictionary) and call it a day.

I enjoy these dictionaries so much that I now own the German and French dictionaries as well. This is a brilliant and extremely efficient way to learn vocabulary. I believe it's absolutely worth the price.

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January 7, 2017

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It's a lazy learner's paradise. The only drawback is the Spanish sentence example does not have an English translation.

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Zoe W

Essential for any Spanish teacher

October 7, 2017

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Essential for the CI/TPRS Spanish teacher. Easy to use and I love that the entries are listed in several different ways (by frequency, alphabetically, by part of speech, by theme etc.)

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and I generally like the organization of the text

September 14, 2016

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It does what it says, and I generally like the organization of the text. However, the paper and print seem to be low-quality--I feel like I got a counterfeit copy. The text, especially, is a little fuzzy. It does not interfere with my usage of the book, but a forty dollar book should be higher quality than this.

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