On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Wiesheu, Martin wrote:
>i am looking for a word frequency list of standard german for language
>teaching purposes. actually, the most important 1000 words would do.
>
Dear Martin:
There is a very old book by Helen Eaton, first published I
believe in the 1930s and republished about in the 1960s by Dover, and I
believe still in print (I don't remember the title at the moment, and
I'm not at home to be able to look it up), with lists of at least the
top 1000 words in 5 important European languages, at least including
English, Spanish, German and French, and I believe Italian is the other
one. Usually, the most frequent words (which these are) are what you
would consider the most 'important' ones as well. Furthermore, despite
the relative antiquity of these lists, they should not have changed much
in the interim.
Jim
-- James L. Fidelholtz e-mail: jfidel@siu.buap.mx Posgrado en Ciencias del Lenguaje tel.: +(52-2)229-5500 x5705 Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades fax: +(01-2) 229-5681 Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MÉXICO
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