[Course Forum] 5000 German Words (Top 87% sorted by frequency) by poncoosh

Hi Olaf
I do use dict.cc on the web several times a day, and love it. I also have their Android app on my Android phone and use it to save those definitions I want practice on. What I would really like now is the ability to use my German dictionaries, along with a dict.cc based dictionary, on my “colored” Kindles. I enjoy reading on my old black and white Kindle, and then being able to see the translation by just tapping the German word that I do not know. I’ve read that it is possible to construct a German dictionary based on dict.cc, that is Kindle readable, but the task is too challenging for me.
Thank you for responding
Leland

Oh, I was a bit slow on this one. Of course you’d like to integrate a dictionary in a way that you can just tap a word to get its translation. Sorry if I had been misleading! Just for your info: there’s dict.cc and there’s Leo, they’re not the same thing, albeit the URLs are kind of similar! :slight_smile:

I found one mistake, in the card for das Wort, the plural is written as -er, it lacks the umlaut.

I added the umlaut symbol for the pluralization to “das Wort”.

Hello. I started updating the 5000 words sorted by frequency (strict typing). I have done the first 1000 words. As I learn the words, I compare both courses sorted by frequency (strict typing and not strict typing), which come from the same corpus and present words in the same order. I carefully review all discrepancies between both courses using multiple dictionaries and online sources. This has allowed me to find many errors and improve many definitions. Note that the strict typing course contains fewer errors than the non-strict typing course (even before I started improving the strict typing version). It is even more accurate now. I post this on this forum, because if someone wishes to improve the non-strict typing version, you can do the process in reverse by looking at the strict typing version. Once again, I have only done the first 1000 words.

Hello, are there any active maintainers here?

I have not found a decent word list for russian speakers and I would like to translate the course into russian for my kids and I wonder if I can get raw data for the course to avoid copypasting from the browser which is rather labour intenstive. Also I do not have audio files. I have no idea how to snatch files from other courses.

I don’t know how to get to the audio files either, but regarding the vocab, there are tools that allow you to export all words resp. generate a list with all words. See my posting here:

Just curious what the source for the sorted 5000 words was? I found “A Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries) 2nd edition” and that looks incredibly solid so I wanted to compare sources.

Hello [jsurferbum]

I am the maintainer of the strict typing course: 5000 words sorted by frequency (strict … - by puffino - Memrise, which is based on the exact same corpus. These frequency-based courses were started almost 10 years ago, and the original creators and maintainers are long gone. I cannot answer your question directly, but since the corpus is a little old, it is missing important words, for instance related to the internet, that would appear in a more recent corpus. I created a new course (Overflow - 5000 words by frequency (str… - by huguesm - Memrise), where I add words commonly encountered at the A1-A2-B1-B2 levels that do not appear in the original list. It is work in progress. An unrelated note: the strict course has less errors than the course for this specific forum. If you just started to study it, I suggest that you switch.

Hello again @jsurferbum,
I forgot to say two things. 1 - Overall the corpus is still very good. 2 - “A Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners (Routledge Frequency Dictionaries) 2nd edition” is now available on Anki.

Level 275: die Akku instead of der Akku.

Both dict.cc and Linguee state that Akku (short for Akkumulator) is a masculine word.

I would change this: Level 1 doch = emphatic marker; but; on the contrary (disagreeing with a negative statement or question)

Level 3 ihr - I would change it to “their, her, you (plural informal)”

Is there a version of this course on Anki with mems? I don’t want to lose the mems but the memrise2anki doesn’t seem to work. :frowning:

Please can someone export me all the words in text form?
German word and English word (or vice versa)

Hi @fataho5188, You could generate your own text file (suitable for pasting into a spreadsheet etc.) from an existing course using tech189’s Memrise Scraper tool. It’s web-based (so doesn’t require any software downloads) and it’s very easy to use.

Hi, I noticed that the pronunciation for “suspekt” is smh “Deckung.” :slight_smile:

Can you check the plural for Krankenhaus - Level 32 - I think it needs an umlaut
It currently says: das Krankenhaus; -er … the hospital
(but if you add an umlaut - it doesn’t say it is incorrect!)

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the correct plural of “das Krankenhaus” is “die Krankenhäuser”
S.

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