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German Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary: 2500 Most Common German Words (Learn German with the German Frequency Dictionaries) Paperback – April 18, 2019
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With this book, you will learn German fast and efficiently. This book contains practical vocabulary for both spoken and written German.
Intended for beginners and intermediate students, this book covers vocabulary roughly from CEFR A1 (complete beginner) to B1 (somewhat able).
To help you become fluent fast, each entry in this book contains
• English translation(s)
• German to English example sentences
• IPA phonetic spelling
• Detailed Part of Speech information
Why Study By Frequency?:
Not all words are created equal. Some words are used more than others, and are thus more valuable to know. The secret to becoming fluent fast in a language, is by learning the right vocabulary.
Studies have shown that the most used 2.500 words account for 92% of all spoken German, and 82% of all written German text.
How Much Vocabulary Do You Need To Know?
While it’s important to note it’s impossible to pin down these numbers and statistics with 100% accuracy, these are a global average of multiple sources. According to scientific research, this is the amount of vocabulary needed for varying levels of fluency:
• 250 words: the essential core of a language. Without these words, you cannot construct sentences.
• 750 words: those that are used every single day by every person who speaks the language.
• 2,500 words: those that should enable you to express everything you could possibly want to say, although some creativity might be required.
• 5,000 words: the active vocabulary of native speakers without higher education. You will understand about 90% of all written text.
• 10,000 words: the active vocabulary of native speakers with higher education.
• 20,000 words: the amount you need to recognize passively in order to read, understand, and enjoy a work of literature such as a novel by a notable author.
Keeping above facts in mind, the value of a frequency dictionary is immense. At least, if you want to become fluent in a language fast. Study the most frequent words, build your vocabulary and progress naturally.
What is Inside This Book?
A frequency list of the most frequently used German words, based on analysis of 20 gigabytes of German subtitles, the equivalent of 80.000 books of 200 pages each; more than two large libraries worth of text.
A large base text collection is absolutely vital in order to establish a reliable general frequency list.
Subtitles have the advantage of corresponding both to written and spoken language. This makes subtitles the best method for creating a useful and practical word frequency list.
This German to English frequency dictionary can roughly be divided in three parts.
• 2.500 German words in ranked by general frequency
• Frequency ranking by part of speech (E.G, the most used adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc)
• 2.500 German words in alphabetical order
German pronunciation can be tricky. To help you pronounce German words correctly, we added phonetic transcriptions of German words. We used the International Phonetic alphabet for phonetic spelling.
Summary
The German Frequency Dictionary – Essential Vocabulary gives you a practical word list to learn German vocabulary. Study the most used words to rapidly gain a base vocabulary in German. These high-frequency words are a great tool for beginners and intermediate students.
The frequency dictionary can be used as a stand-alone tool, or in combination with any other language learning program, app or book. This book roughly covers CEFR vocabulary ratings from A1 (absolute beginner) to B1 (somewhat proficient).
Invest this book, and invest in yourself. You will amaze yourself, your friends and your family by how fast you’re progressing in your journey of speaking German.
- Print length226 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateApril 18, 2019
- Dimensions8 x 0.51 x 10 inches
- ISBN-109492637308
- ISBN-13978-9492637307
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- Publisher : MostUsedWords.com (April 18, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 226 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9492637308
- ISBN-13 : 978-9492637307
- Item Weight : 1.12 pounds
- Dimensions : 8 x 0.51 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #283,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Everything you need to learn a language from home. Get conversational straight away by learning the most useful things first. Then, master your new language with the most comprehensive word lists there are.
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The frequency dictionaries allow you to learn vocabulary quickly. By providing you with the most common words in a language, you can learn any language in record time.
The example sentences serve as parallel text, so you can see the foreign vocabulary being used in context. Seeing words used in context also helps you remember vocabulary, as it mimics natural language acquisition. The sample sentences also to help you learn new words from context. And you will discover and get used to the grammar and the natural flow of a language, by reading.
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1) Verbs really should list their present, imperfect past, and perfect past conjugations. In German, this is part of knowing the verb. Grammar rules are not enough to discern this information and thus in my opinion it is part of the domain of vocab.
2) Similarly, nouns should be listed with their plurals given. Additionally, in the case of nouns for people, it should give both masculine and feminine forms together. E.g. Freund/Freundin M/F --- the Friend.
3) Perhaps this is a matter of grammar more than a matter of vocab and thus I list it last, but there is no reason why the prepositions should not indicate which case they take. It seems most efficient to learn this information as you learn the words as without this information you cannot use the words correctly.
All of the above stated, this is a good book. Most of the words are useful and believable to be very common. The example sentences are hit or miss. Some of them are hilariously and needlessly macabre/dark (ex: marry--I should have married your brother) and others are clearly in the wrong place, failing to use the vocab word. Still, I think it is the best on the market and I would recommend it, but it's no vocab bible or one stop shop.
The layout is very easy to navigate and easy to use at a glance.
I speak German and my husband is learning so he is using this book to build up his vocabulary and it's a great tool to include but I wouldn't rely on it as a sole language learning tool.
Else, excellent for review and study.
Anyway, the reason for giving it only 4 stars is there are some weird mistakes. For example, under "Herr," the example sentence is "Wie geht es Ihrer Frau?" For (he)raus, the sentence is "Gehe nicht ohne Regenschirm aus." Aus is kind of related to heraus... but still not the same. Then one weird translation is
Der Krieg dauerte drei Jahre. - The war lasted for two years.
Should be three years.
Each entry has a phonetic pronunciation, and a definition, but, where this book series excels is that it has an example sentence with EVERY single entry. Each book has ~2500 entries, so the whole series gets you around 10000 total entries.
I use these books every day. They are fantastic. If you're a language learner, these are a godsend. A LOT of work went into this series, and it shows. It is very well done. You won't be disappointed.
The only issue is: GIVE US BOOK 4!!!!
1) often there are two different definitions of a word and only one example is given
2) Many of the sentences are not suitable for beginners.
3) Too often the word is used as an idiom in these examples where another definition is implied. Typically these are complicated sentences.
That said, this is a very helpful book! They just need to make a lot of improvements.
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The gender of each word is indicated but not the plural of nouns nor the conjugation of verbs.
For those two, just buy a regular dictionary and 555 German Verbs to complement this gem.
Each entry is accompanied by an example sentence with it's English meaning below.
The paper it's printed on is a nice white and thus provides good contrast making it easy to read.
I strongly recommend this work for anyone serious about learning the language.
The thing that could be improved is to record correct pronunciation of words and sentences and leave it for example on the official website as an addition to the bought book as downloads. It will improve not only reading skills, but listening and understanding German language as well and then this book will deserve 5 stars.
You can use a dictionary, but considering the price that is not so low and the purpose of the book it is still an important gap in the product. My opinion.




