Sharoff Serge. A frequency dictionary of Russian: core vocabulary for learners

Umanskaya Elena, Wilson James. — New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. — x, 384 p. — ISBN: 9780415521420.A frequency dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian: providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions; learner friendly, giving you the core vocabulary for Russian quickly; useful with 26 thematic boxes of thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as food and drink, travel, and sports and leisure. The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpus taken from more than 75,000 web pages and covering a range of text types from news and journalistic articles, research papers, administrative texts and fiction. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation, a part of speech indication, indication of stress for polysyllabic words and information on inflection for irregular forms. A frequency dictionary of Russian enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development.