Romanian Frequency Dictionary For Learners: Practical Vocabulary - Top 10.000 Romanian Words

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All Romanian Vocabulary You’ll Need, In One Book. With this book, you can learn Romanian fast and efficiently: This book contains practical vocabulary for both spoken and written Romanian. Why Study By Frequency?: In any given language, you only use about 1000 different words a day in day-to-day spoken language. These high frequency words account for about 95% of all spoken language When it comes to reading; the 2.000 most used words account for about 85% of all that is written. The most used 10.000 words account for 99% of all spoken and 98% of all written Romanian text. How Much Vocabulary Do You Need To Know? While it’s important to note it’s impossible to pin down these numbers and statistics with 100% accuracy, these are a global average of multiple sources. According to scientific research, this is the amount of vocabulary needed for varying levels of fluency: 1. 250 words: the essential core of a language. Without these words, you cannot construct sentences. 2. 750 words: those that are used every single day by every person who speaks the language. 3. 2500 words: those that should enable you to express everything you could possibly want to say, although some creativity might be required. 4. 5000 words: the active vocabulary of native speakers without higher education. You will understand 95% of all written texts. 5. 10,000 words: the active vocabulary of native speakers with higher education. 6. 20,000 words: the amount you need to recognize passively in order to read, understand, and enjoy a work of literature such as a novel by a notable author. Keeping above facts in mind, the value of a frequency dictionary is immense. At least, that is if you want to become fluent in a language fast. Study the most frequent words, build your vocabulary and progress naturally. Sounds logical, right? What is Inside This Book? A frequency list of the most frequently used Romanian words, based on analysis of 7.5 gigabytes of Romanian subtitles, the equivalent of 30.000 books of 200 pages each; a good-sized library. A large base text collection is absolutely vital to establishing a good general frequency list. Subtitles have the advantage of corresponding both to written and spoken language, so you get the best of both worlds. The Romanian to English Frequency Dictionary for Learners can roughly be divided in three parts. • 10.000 Romanian words in ranked by general frequency • Frequency ranking by part of speech (E.G, The most used adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc) • 10.000 Words in Alphabetical order Summary The Romanian Frequency Dictionary for Learners gives you a practical word list to learn Romanian vocabulary. Study the most used words to rapidly gain a base vocabulary in Romanian. These high frequency words are a great tool for beginners, intermediate and advance students of Romanian. The frequency dictionary can be used as a stand-alone tool, or in combination with any other language learning program, app or book. This book roughly covers CEFR vocabulary ratings from A1 (absolute beginner) to C2+ (mastery). Invest this book, and invest in yourself. You will amaze yourself, and your friends and family by how fast you’re progressing in your journey of speaking Romanian. Review: Quicker path towards Romanian fluency - I have been learning Romanian for the past eight months and started using this dictionary for the last three months. I am pretty serious in my quest for fluency in this language and this book has really sped that process up. I go through a few pages a day and put the words I don’t have in my vocabulary bank in an app called Anki. I have learned close to new 1,000 words using this method (the past two months). I’m sure if you have more time to study the language you can learn at a quicker pace. I immediately noticed myself being able to understand my Romanian tutors and converse about a wider range of topics. Obviously, the book doesn’t help with your grammar, so sometimes the words will come out jumbled up or with the wrong conjugation, but I am definitely understood. The second thing I noticed was that I was FINALLY able to read books. I’m not talking about any Dostoevsky or anything hahah, but I was at least able to start reading the Harry Potter series. Of course there are downsides. The one that I have found so far is that the words can be taken out of context. I have found myself using words in the wrong context, which thankfully my tutors/friends catch. For example, the word “vechi” means old yes? Well the book tells you it means old, but it doesn’t tell you that it only refers to old THINGS, not people. For which you would use the word “bătrân”. However, I did find a solution. You can go to Reverso (website) and it will help you find the context of the word you are looking for. I recommend using this website when creating flashcards with this book. I highly recommend the book if you are serious about becoming fluent in Romanian. Review: Truly Lacking Effort - As another reviewer mentioned the ranking of words is strange, ie the verb to plow being the 39th most used word. What's worse is that words are listed without any further principal parts. For instance you get an entry like fată noun girl, marfă noun merchandise with no further information; Romanian nouns have three genders and multiple ways to form the plural, but the book doesn't give you any of that information so you have to go look up the gender and how to form the plural every noun they list. Same is true of the verbs, the book only gives the infinitive but the infinitive alone isn't enough to know how to inflect the verb ie a da, a lucra -> eu dau eu lucrez; there is no way to know that other than memorization, book also doesn't bother giving the past participle which you also are expected to look up. Which is to say you can't just go through the book and form flash cards, you need a seperate dictionary to look up principle parts and inflections and also to double check meanings.