Complete list of more frequently occurring nouns, verbs, etc in English

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David D Stretch - 14 Jul 2006 11:40 GMT

I wonder if anyone here can help me? I'm trying to produce some
wordlists that will help my wife and son who are Chinese learn UK
English. I'd like some lists of frequently occurring English words
categorized by parts of speech, as this will make translations of them
into Chinese less horrendous.

I've seen partial lists, and even lists which claim to be complete, but
which aren't, but what I'm after are lists of the most frequently
occurring nouns in UK English, as well as a separate list of the most
frequently occurring verbs in UK English. Other parts of speech would
be sueful too, but nouns and verbs will be enough to get on with. 100
would be a useful number too.

Thanks in advance.

David

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Dave Fawthrop - 14 Jul 2006 11:58 GMT

|I wonder if anyone here can help me? I'm trying to produce some
|wordlists that will help my wife and son who are Chinese learn UK
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|be sueful too, but nouns and verbs will be enough to get on with. 100
|would be a useful number too.

There can never be even good lists of commonly used words in English.
Every individual has his/her own list of words they use commonly, but these
vary wildly between people, and groups of people. Different genre of
writing also use wildly different words.

The academics use the LOB Corpus
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/w3c/corpus_ling/content/corpora/list/private/LOB/lob.html
But I would not recommend that you go down that route

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volkdriver@gmail.com - 26 Jul 2006 16:26 GMT

I don't know do u want to try this good website

http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/topics/pinyin/pinyin.html

I think It's a good website to learn chinese from English and it maybe
also in vice versa.

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Complete list of more frequently occurring nouns, verbs, etc in English