Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

<p><em>A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese</em> is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese providing a list of the 5000 most commonly used words in the language.</p><p>Based on a100 million word corpus composed of spoken fiction non-fiction and news texts in current use the dictionary provides the user with a detailed frequency-based list as well as alphabetical and part-of-speech indices.</p><p>All entries in the frequency list feature the English equivalent and a sample sentence with English translation. The dictionary also contains 25 thematically organised lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics such as food weather occupations and leisure. Numerous bar charts are also included to highlight the phonetic and spelling variants across register.</p><p><em>A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese</em> enables students of all levels to maximise their study of Japanese vocabulary in an efficient and engaging way. It is also an excellent resource for teachers of the language.</p><p>Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415610131 as support material. 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 purposes.</p>