Russian Learners' Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Frequency Order

by Nicholas J. Brown

Release Date: July, 1996

Edition: Hardcover

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Superb for Self Study

Nicholas Brown brought use the excellent revised Penguin Russian course, and this offering is up to his usual high standards.

A self-explanatory title - allows you to gauge your current performance in written russian (I do this by simply highlighting with a marker pen the words I already know). And allowing you to fill in gaps in your knowledge.

I think this book is one of the best Vocabulary building tools on the market - this is of course the books intended purpose - and it serves it well.

A Useful Supplement

Nicholas Brown at the University of London has given us a dictionary of the 10,000 words he believes are the most common in Russian. The interesting twist is that the first part of the dictionary is sorted, as the subtitle says, "in frequency order". From the most common word meaning, "and" to the 10,000th most common meaning, "furious,raging, fervent", he outlines a method for expanding your Russian vocabulary. This book could prove to be a useful tool in deciding to memorize particular words.

A helpful alphabetical listing follows the frequency list.

I think this volume is best used by a second or third year student of colege Russian.

This book is also available in paperback.