Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese

<p><em>A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese</em> is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese providing a list of the 5000 words and the 2000 Chinese characters (simplified) most commonly used in the language. Based on a fifty-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 indexes.</p><p>All entries in the frequency list feature the English equivalent and a sample sentence with English translation. The <em>Dictionary</em> also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics such as food weather travel and time expressions.</p><p><em>A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese</em> enables students of all levels to maximize their study of Mandarin 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/9780415455862 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 work.</p>