Frequency Dictionary of Japanese

Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, Kikuo Maekawa

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Routledge
22 January 2013

Bilingual & multilingual dictionaries; Languages & ESL; Japanese - Specialist Dictionary; Japanese - Vocabulary; Japanese - Languages

Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese is an invaluable tool for all learners of Japanese, providing a list of the 5,000 most commonly used words in the language.

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.

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.

A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese 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.

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.

By: Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, Kikuo Maekawa
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 710g
ISBN: 9780415610131
ISBN 10: 0415610133
Series: Routledge Frequency Dictionaries
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 22 January 2013
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yukio Tono is Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Kikuo Makawa is Professor at the Department of Corpus Studies, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. Makato Yamazaki is Associate Professor at the Department of Corpus Studies, the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics.