Beberapa hari yang lalu saya baru saja mendapatkan situs berikut yang tampaknya sangat bagus:
Bagaimana menurut bapak?
Bagaimana cara mempelajari 5000 kosa kata tersebut karena hanya sebatas daftar kata dengan frekuensi tinggi.
Koleksinya lengkap ada versi PDF-nya. katanya diambil dari acara tv di Amerika.
Disebutkan begini:
Keep in mind!
Those 5,000 words cover 96% of the English language!
Once you know them, you can do everything in English without
the need for translations.
Source
The list is derived from a corpus of 6,192,659 words, composed
of 12 American TV shows. The shows were selected to be
balanced and representative of spoken American English.
The top 5,062 lemmas in the corpus amount to a total of
5,796,570 words. Places (toponyms) and character names
have been excluded from the list for practical reasons, but are
easy to understand and covered a total of 177,952 words.
Bottom-line: (5796570 + 177952) / 6192659 = 96% coverage.
In other words, understanding the top 5,000 words given in
this list will let you, in practice, understand 96% of the
corpus and, by extension, 96% of spoken American
English.
Untung ada google translate jadi saya paham kutipan di atas.
Tidak terdapat terjemahan untuk setiap kata pada daftar itu. Tapi, hanya sebatas kata dan bentuk pecahannya.