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    Italian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2.500 Most Used Words & 421 Most Common Verbs
    Italian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2.500 Most Used Words & 421 Most Common Verbs
    Italian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2.500 Most Used Words & 421 Most Common Verbs
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    Italian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2.500 Most Used Words & 421 Most Common Verbs

    By J.L. Laide

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    Essential Modern Italian Vocabulary for Students and Learners

    The fastest way to acquire a base vocabulary for practical spoken and written Italian!

    Italian Phrasebook: Contains 2500 useful example sentences to help you get fluent fast.

    International Phonetic Alphabet: Contains IPA entries for easy pronuncation.

     

    Scientific research has shown that in day to day speech, you only use about 1.000 words a day., 


    The 1000 most common words in Italian account for 95% of all daily conversational Italian. The 2.500 most used words account for 85% of all daily written IT.  

    The essential Italian- English Word Frequency Dictionary 2.500 words and verbs give you a list of the most useful words to build your Italian vocabulary fast.

    These high frequency Italian words are a great tool for beginners and intermediate students.

    This electronic mini dictionary is a invaluable tool if you want to teach yourself IT. 

    Learn only the most important and most used words & verbs to quickly gain a practical knowledge of spoken and written Italian. 

    This Italian frequency dictionary is perfect for beginners and intermediate students of teenage or adult age. It is less suitable for kids and children.

    The IPA helps you with Italian pronuncation, by writing a word phonetically.

    The exampe sentences, consisting out of over 90.000 words!) contain practical and useful information.

    They are designed to get you fluent fast, by using the most common and important words the most.

    Example sentences also help you discover Italian idioms and expressions through reading.

    More fun facts on language learning and vocabulary:


    •    The first 25 words are used in 33% of all everyday writing
    •    The top 100 words make up 50% of all student and adult writing
    •    Top 500 words make up around 70% of all everyday text. 


    It has been advised to first learn the first 1000 most common words before you start speaking a new language. The facts aforementioned seem to confirm this. 

    With this book, you are able to cover 85% of the Italian language in text (enough to discover the meaning of unknown words through context), and 95% of all of the in day-to-day spoken situations.

    It is therefore a rational move to prioritize learning the words and verbs that you are likely to use and hear the most often. 

    Frequency dictionaries and word lists are a good starting point, and can produce the quickest results. 

    The most common Italian words & verbs list will give you a good grasp on the Italian language in a short amount of time. 

    The word frequency is based on analysis of Italian subtitles. Scientific research has shown that subtitles are the best source of a practical, spoken frequency dictionary in any language. 

    Subtitles correlate to both spoken and written Italian. 

    The Italian – English Frequency Dictionary: Essential Vocabulary contents: 

    1. Why this dictionary was created 
    2. Study tips 
    3. How to use this dictionary 
    4. Italian- English Frequency Dictionary 
    A. Adjectives
    B. Adverbs
    C. Conjunctions
    D. Interjections
    E. Nouns
    F. Numerals
    G. Prepositions
    H. Pronouns
    I. Verbs
    5. Italian – English Dictionary Alphabetical Order 
    6. Resources & further reading 

    By studying this dictionary with the 2500 most common words and 421 most common verbs, you will quickly gain a broad understanding and practical knowledge of spoken and written Italian.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMostUsedWords.com
    Release dateSep 10, 2016
    ISBN9781536571608
    Italian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2.500 Most Used Words & 421 Most Common Verbs

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      Italian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary - 2.500 Most Used Words & 421 Most Common Verbs - J.L. Laide

      1. Why this dictionary was created

      This dictionary was created because I needed a word list of the most frequent used words & verbs in Spanish, to help me understand Spanish in the shortest amount of time possible.  

      I started passing it around to friends and got great feedback on it, so I decided to turn it into a book.

      Because it was such handy tool, I repeated the process for several other languages. Currently available frequency dictionaries are Spanish, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Russian and French. Visit www.mostusedwords.com to keep up with new releases and updates.

      Why study by frequency?

      If you´re not familiar with the importance of frequency word lists when it comes to language learning, here is a short summary:

      Language learning is fun, but can be overwhelming. Almost every language as hundreds of thousands different words, but most of them you will rarely use. That’s why it makes sense to study only the words you actually need to know to have conversations and read in your desired language.

      Frequency dictionaries are usually either text based, or based on speech. The unique advantage of using subtitles as a method of frequency sorting is that it covers both speaking and reading (73% and 83% respectively). The overlap ensures you have all the vocabulary you need.

      By only studying the words you will actually use, it is possible to gain a good grasp of a language in a short amount of time. By knowing 2500 words, you can express yourself in everyday situations and be fluent enough have conversations with locals.

      On average, you only use 1000 different words in any language on a daily spoken basis. This translates to roughly 95% of all words you use daily speech. When it comes to reading, 2500 words will get you to understand around 85% of all words used in written text.  This is usually enough to learn new words you don’t know from context.

      Tim Ferris quoted these statistics when learning Spanish. Since Italian and Spanish are quite similar and share a common origin, it’s safe to assume they are applicable to Italian as well.

      95% fluency Spanish: 2.500 most common words

      98% fluency Spanish: 100.000 most common words.

      So, in order to reach 95% fluency in both reading and speaking, you would need to know about 2.500 words. To add a 3% increase to your useful vocabulary, you would need to learn another 97.500 words! Talk about diminish returns.

      This is idea is based on the Pareto Principle.

      You might have heard about it. Pareto was an Italian economist who discovered that 80% of the output comes from only 20% of the input (or material, or effort).

      On language learning, this principle is on steroids. Here´s why:

      The corpus examined consisted of nearly 1 million Italian words. First we needed to define words.  We filtered out a lot of entries. Amongst other things, we left out proper nouns (names of objects and people), and took the root verb whenever we encountered a verb conjugation.

      2. Study tips

      While you are free to do study any way you want with this dictionary, I would like to give you some pointers.  By learning just 28 new words a day, you can build up your vocabulary to fluency in three months. If you dedicate yourself and learn 43 new words daily, two months is possible. Here are a couple of tips to build up your vocabulary fast, and to keep remembering what you previously learned.

      Spaced repetition

      Hack your brains ability to store and recall information. The most efficient way of studying is by incorporating the system of spaced repetition. This way you can store information faster, and for a longer amount of time. Paul Pimsleur published a paper in 1968 on spaced repetition. He came up with the following intervals: 5 seconds, 25 seconds, 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour, 5 hours, 1 day, 5 days, 25 days, 4 months, and 2 years.

      You do not need to time yourself with a stopwatch, as there are upper and lower bounds to the intervals.  Just revisited the words you have previously learned from time to time, with above guidelines in mind.

      (Interactive language learning software and audio courses are based on this principle, and they can work really well. To see which ones are great investments, and which ones are terrible, read our reviews of different 3rd party language learning methods, audio courses, software and apps on www.mostusedwords.com/reviews )

      Example sentences

      Read the example sentences and their translations. The sentences are structured in a way that the most used words, appear most often. This helps you discover new words through context, naturally get a sense of grammar, and discover common idioms and expressions. Due to the principle of spaced repetition, learning this way helps you internalize words faster too.

      Mnemonics

      By creating a little story with a word, it’s easier to remember. The more visual it is, the easier it is to remember.  My favorite is the Spanish  caber. Caber means to fit. Now picture in your mind a bear and a cab. The bear wants to get in the cab, but it’s having difficulties. After all, it’s really hard to fit a bear in a cab. By creating little visual stories like these, it’s much easier to remember vocabulary.

      Read

      Reading and speaking the words out loud greatly helps with building your vocabulary and developing a sense of grammar, pronouncuation and listening skills. Reading helps solidify your vocabulary, because you are using the method of spaced repetition while reading. When you read, and don´t know a word, you can usually discover it by the context. For some reason, words discovered through context are more easily remembered than when you study them from a list.

      Anyway, you can get bilingual books from either a (specialized) bookstore or from www.mostusedwords.com/parallel-texts. Our selection is ever expanding, so check for updates regularly. It currently spans the range from English to Italian, Italian, Italian, Italian Dutch and French etc.

      Listen

      Turn on the Italian (internet) radio, download songs in Italian, and watch Italian series. Conversing along with your favorite soap opera is a great way of getting around a new language.

      Immerse

      Change your phone and/or computer into Italian. Nothing helps you acquire a new language as much as necessity.

      Of course, total immersion is the best way of learning a new language fast. But you don’t have to move to a different country to learn a new language.

      Cognates

      Italian and English share about 30% of their vocabulary in cognates. Instant vocabulary doesn’t get any better than this. Cognates are words that share a common etymological origin. 

      Use these 5 cognate rules to find cognates between English and Italian.

      Verbs

      Below is a short overview of (regular) verb conjugations in the present tense.

      3. How to use this dictionary

      On Part of Speech definitions

      We made the decision to give the most common use of a word as the part of speech. It does however, not mean that this is the only part of speech the word can be used for. Certain verbs (or conjugations thereof) can be used as adjectives, and certain words can be verbs as well as nouns. Some words can be adverbs, adjectives and pronouns, etc.

      When there is not a dominant use of a word, we have given both part of speech options.

      International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

      In the beginning, pronouncution can be tricky. The IPA entries for each term can help you, by telling you how to pronounce a word the right way. For more information, visit www.internaionalphoneticalphabet.org.

      4. Italian-English Frequency Dictionary

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