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David D Stretch    657614 Fri, 14 Jul 06 11:40 AM

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    657615 Fri, 14 Jul 06 11:58 AM

"I wonder if anyone here can help me? I'm trying to produce some wordlists that will help my wife and ... 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
Dave Fawthrop Google Groups is IME the *worst* method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. These will allow them: to see only *new* posts, a killfile, and other goodies.
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Anonymous    657622 Wed, 26 Jul 06 04:26 PM

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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