Frequency Dictionary of Russian

<p><em>A Frequency Dictionary of Russian</em> is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian providing a list of the 5000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions.</p><p>The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpus taken from more than 75000 webpages and covering a range of text types from news and journalistic articles research papers administrative texts and fiction.</p><p>All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent a sample sentence with English translation a part of speech indication indication of stress for polysyllabic words and information on inflection for irregular forms.</p><p>The dictionary also contains twenty-six thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics such as food and drink travel and sports and leisure.</p><p>A Frequency Dictionary of Russian enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching research curriculum design and materials development.</p><p>Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415521420 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>