A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese
Core Vocabulary for Learners
Tony McEnery author Richard Xiao author Paul Rayson author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:29th Sep '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Mandarin Chinese, providing a list of the 5,000 words and the 2,000 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.
All entries in the frequency list feature the English equivalent and a sample sentence with English translation. The Dictionary also contains thirty thematically organized lists of frequently used words on a variety of topics such as food, weather, travel and time expressions.
A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese 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.
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.
"Built on a philosophy that reflects this recognition, this frequency dictionary should prove an invaluable tool for guiding learners and teachers of Mandarin Chinese as a second or foreign language in determining what kinds of vocabulary to focus their time and energy on at different stages of lanaguage learning process or curriculum."
- Xiaofei Lu, Penn State University, USA
"Xiao, Rayson and McEnery's frequency dictionary is an impressive work that will undoubtedly prove useful to students, teachers, and - because of the detailed statistical information that is given - perhaps to researchers as well.....my main reaction upon perusing this book has been a feeling of regret that it was not available to me years ago when I was first studying Chinese."
-- Michael Grosvald, the University of California at Davis
ISBN: 9781138129795
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 839g
390 pages