朗文常用词汇3000.pdf

LONGMAN COMMUNICATION 3000 1 Longman Communication 3000 The Longman Communication 3000 is a list of These frequency markers added to the the 3000 most frequent words in both spoken headwords in the dictionary give users access and written English, based on statistical to a wealth of information that can help the analysis of the 390 million words contained selection of the appropriate word or phrase in in the Longman Corpus Network – a group of a variety of situations. Not only are the words corpuses or databases of authentic English and meanings given descriptive labels, for language. The Longman Communication 3000 example formal or informal, AmE (American represents the core of the English language and English) or BrE (British English), humorous, shows students of English which words are the old-fashioned, but now they have the added most important for them to learn and study information about relative frequency in spoken in order to communicate effectively in both and written language. speech and writing. Take for example the verb book (in the meaning Analysis of the Longman Corpus Network of book a table at a restaurant). It is marked shows that these 3000 most frequent words as S2 – one of the top 2000 words of spoken in spoken and written English account for English. Note that is has no marker for written 86% of the language. This means that by English because according to corpus analysis, knowing this list of words, a learner of English it is not part of the top 3000 most frequent is in a position to understand 86% or more of words in written English. However, the entry w