Here’s a link my article How to Learn Any Language in 6 MonthsĪctually, it’s quite useful that this list is the most common Japanese morphemes, not words.
You can find the complete list of more than 65,000 words including punctuation, word frequency, and parts of speech at. Frequent words are usually common because they contain little information, so you have a trade-off between ‘used a lot’ and ‘give critical information’. Usually the most frequently used words don’t need explicit learning because they are found all over the place, and the medium-presence words are more important, because they convey important things. Mike (the man who generated the list himself) said in an email… The first 100 words on the list make up 57.2% of the text that was processed.īut don’t let this data fool you completely. I’ve also included the text file of those 3000 words in case you want to do any textual searches.Ī little bit of number crunching on the data turned out some very interesting facts. I removed punctuation and numbers, and compiled the words into 2 page pdf files that are easy to print so you can cross off words when you learn them.
I simply took the first 3000 words from his data and made some tweaks so the words are easier to utilize for studying. No word frequency list can be perfect, but I think this one is about as close as you can get. His algorithm compiled over 65 million words. There are several word frequency lists out there, most of them I found were compiled from newspapers, but Mike “Pomax” Kamermans over at had a brilliant idea to use Japanese novels as material instead. Learning the most common words first will reap huge benefits for your comprehension. One of the components of quickly acquiring languages is to prioritize the words that you learn. In a previous post, I expounded on language learning and laid out what I think is the fastest way to learn any language.
0 kommentar(er)
