Is there a corpus-based frequency dictionary of the French language?
Yet, surprisingly, there is no current corpus-based frequency dictionary of the French language. The present dictionary is meant to address this shortcoming, and is part of a series that includes other highly useful dictionaries for Spanish (Davies, 2006) and Portuguese (Davies & Preto-Bay, 2008).
How to download vocabulary lists?
To download them, first you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader ( click here if you don’t have it already). Then, click on the red logo to download each vocabulary list. Have fun (Please let me know on the facebook page if there some lists you would like to see added) at home (rooms…) *** French slang and colloquial expressions.
Is frequency a good guide to vocabulary learning?
While Nation’s results were for English, they do at least present the possibility that, by allowing frequency to be a general guide to vocabulary learning, one task facing learners – to acquire a lexicon which will serve them well on most occasions most of the time – could be achieved quite easily.
French Vocabulary