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# Vocabulary lists for language learning

This is a list of curated vocabulary lists for language study that I've collected as reference for testing purposes in the creation of an application that generates vocabulary words in various langauge. (Note: An earlier version of this application is described [here](http://www.roselab.sci.waseda.ac.jp/development/wqc/index.html).]

I'm grateful to the following people for helping me to compile this list: David Alfter, Elena Volodina, Francis Bond, Laurence Anthony, Marc Brysbaert, Mark Davies, Martin Krallinger, Muranova, and Robert Reynolds.

Last updated: July 5, 2020

## Arabic

* A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Arabic-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Buckwalter-Parkinson/p/book/9780415444347)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Tim Buckwalter, Dilworth Parkinson

* Kelly (Arabic) [[information](http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/serge/kelly/)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

## Chinese

* Kelly (Chinese) [[information](http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/serge/kelly/)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

## Czech

* A Frequency Dictionary of Czech: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Czech-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Cermak-Kren/p/book/9780415576628)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: František Cermák, Michal Kren

## Dutch

* A Frequency Dictionary of Dutch: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Dutch-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Tiberius-Schoonheim/p/book/9780415523806)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Carole Tiberius, Tanneke Schoonheim

* NT2Lex [[information](https://cental.uclouvain.be/cefrlex/nt2lex)]  
  A lexicon for Dutch as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project  
  Credit: Anaïs Tack, Thomas François, Piet Desmet, Cédrick Fairon

* Word knowledge lists [[information](http://crr.ugent.be/programs-data/word-prevalence-values), [download](http://crr.ugent.be/papers/prevalence%20B%20&%20NL.xlsx)]  
  List of words that native speakers know (based on prevalance value)  
  Credit: Marc Brysbaert, Emmanuel Keuleers, Paweł Mandera

## English

* A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English: Word Sketches, Collocates and Thematic Lists [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Contemporary-American-English-Word-Sketches/Davies-Gardner/p/book/9780415490634)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Mark Davies, Dee Gardner

* Academic Vocabulary Lists [[information](https://www.academicwords.info/)]  
  Frequency list based on the academic portion of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)  
  Credit: Mark Davies, Dee Gardner

* Academic Word List (AWL) [[information](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist), [download](https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/publications/awlsublists.rtf)]  
  List of 570 high frequency words found in academic texts  
  Credit: Averil Coxhead

* Business Service List (BSL) [[information](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/bsl-business-service-list), [download](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/s/BSL_101_SFI_freq_bands.csv)]  
  List of ""core"" business words based on corpus of business-related texts  
  Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan

* EFLLex [[information](https://cental.uclouvain.be/cefrlex/efllex)]  
  A lexicon for English as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project  
  Credit: Luise Dürlich, Thomas François

* English Word Lists [[information](https://eflnotes.wordpress.com/english-wordlists/)]  
  A listing of a wide variety of English word lists: "General", "Academic",  "Discipline", and "Formulaic"  
  Credit: Various (list mainained by Muranova)

* EnglishProfile [[information](https://www.englishprofile.org/wordlists)]  
  CEFR-level organized list of vocabulary items  
  Credit: Cambridge University Press

* General Service List (GSL) [[information](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Service_List)]  
  List of 2000 high frequency words in English, as compiled by West (1953)  
  Credit: Michael West

* General Service List (GSL) [[information](http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html), [download](http://jbauman.com/gsl.html)]  
  List of 2284 high frequency words in general English; slightly revised version of West's 1953 list  
  Credit: John Bauman, Brent Culligan

* Global Scale of English (GSE) Teacher Toolkit (Vocabulary) [[information](https://www.english.com/gse/teacher-toolkit/user/vocabulary)]  
  Customizable vocabulary lists based on topics and grammatical categories  
  Credit: Pearson English

* Kelly (English) [[information](http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/serge/kelly/)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

* New Academic Word List (NAWL) [[information](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/nawl-new-academic-word-list), [download](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/s/NAWL_SFI.csv)]  
  A list of ""core"" Academic English vocabulary based on the selected corpora of academic texts (spoken and written)  
  Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan, Joseph Phillips

* New General Service List - Spoken (NGSL-S) [[information](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/ngsls), [download](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/s/NGSL-Spoken-101.xlsx)]  
  A list of ""core"" English vocabulary based on the spoken portion of the Cambridge English Corpus  
  Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan

* New General Service List (NGSL) [[information](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/), [download](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/s/NGSL-101-by-band-qq9o.xlsx)]  
  A list of ""core"" English vocabulary based on the Cambridge English Corpus  
  Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan, Joseph Phillips

* TOEIC Service List (TSL) [[information](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/toeic-list), [download](http://www.newgeneralservicelist.org/s/TSL-11-Ranked-by-Frequency.xlsx)]  
  List of words useful in preparation for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC)  
  Credit: Charles Browne, Brent Culligan

* Word frequency data [[information](https://www.wordfrequency.info/)]  
  Frequency list based on Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)  
  Credit: Mark Davies

* Word knowledge lists [[information](https://psyarxiv.com/fwhdy/)]  
  List of words that native speakers know (based on prevalance value)  
  Credit: Marc Brysbaert, Emmanuel Keuleers, Paweł Mandera

## French

* A Frequency Dictionary of French: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-French-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Lonsdale-Bras/p/book/9780415775311)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Deryle Lonsdale, Yvon Le Bras

* FLELex [[information](https://cental.uclouvain.be/cefrlex/flelex)]  
  A lexicon for French as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project  
  Credit: Thomas Francois, Núria Gala, Patrick Watrin, Cédrick Fairon

## German

* A Frequency Dictionary of German: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-German-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Tschirner-Mohring/p/book/9781138659780)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Erwin Tschirner, Jupp Möhring

## Greek

* Kelly (Greek) [[information](https://athena.clarin.gr/resources/browse/kelly-word-list-greek/772c60809da611e591e2aa3fc8d33ad839bfa40b3ead4610a5712c8323a87d5b/)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

## Italian

* Kelly (Italian) [[information](http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/serge/kelly/)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

## Japanese

* A Frequency Dictionary of Japanese [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Japanese/Tono-Yamazaki-Maekawa/p/book/9780415610131)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Yukio Tono, Makoto Yamazaki, Kikuo Maekawa

* Open MeSH ID mapping [[information](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808631/)]  
  A partially-completed project to map MeSH IDs between English and Japanese for Open NLP  
  Credit: Yuka Tateisi

## Korean

* A Frequency Dictionary of Korean: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Korean-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Lee-Jang-Seo/p/book/9781138781818)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Sun-Hee Lee, Seok Bae Jang, Sang Kyu Seo

## Mandarin Chinese

* A Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Mandarin-Chinese-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Xiao-Rayson-McEnery/p/book/9780415455862)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Richard Xiao, Paul Rayson, Tony McEnery

## Multilingual

* MeSpEn resource [[information](https://temu.bsc.es/mespen/), [download](https://zenodo.org/record/2205690/files/MeSpEn_Glossaries.zip?download=1)]  
  Bilingual lists of high frequency medical terminology for various language pairings  
  Credit: Marta Villegas, Ander Intxaurrondo, Aitor Gonzalez-Agirre, Montserrat Marimon, Martin Krallinger

* Resources for Evaluation of CEFRLex [[information](https://pub.cl.uzh.ch/wiki/public/multicefrlex)]  
  English, French, and Swedish correlated lists used in the evaluation of the various CEFRLex language lists  
  Credit: Johannes Graen, David Alfter, Gerold Schneider

* TUFS common vocabulary list [[information](https://github.com/fcbond/tufs/tree/master/docs), [download](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fcbond/tufs/master/tufs-vocab.tsv)]  
  Parallel list of words used in Tokyo University of Foreign Studies language teaching  
  Credit: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Francis Bond)

## Norwegian

* Kelly (Norwegian) [[download](https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/spraakbanken.gu.se/files/Norwegian-Kelly.xls)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

## Persian

* A Frequency Dictionary of Persian: Core vocabulary for learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Persian-Core-vocabulary-for-learners/Miller-Aghajanian-Stewart/p/book/9781138833241)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Corey Miller, Karineh Aghajanian-Stewart

## Portuguese

* A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Portuguese/Davies-Preto-Bay/p/book/9780415419970)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Mark Davies, Ana Maria Raposo Preto-Bay

* Word frequency data [[information](https://www.wordfrequency.info/portuguese.asp)]  
  Frequency list based on  Corpus do Português  
  Credit: Mark Davies

## Russian

* A Frequency Dictionary of Russian: core vocabulary for learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Russian-core-vocabulary-for-learners/Sharoff-Umanskaya-Wilson/p/book/9780415521420)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Serge Sharoff, Elena Umanskaya, James Wilson

* Kelly (Russian) [[information](http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/serge/kelly/)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

## Spanish

* A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish: Core Vocabulary for Learners [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Spanish-Core-Vocabulary-for-Learners/Davies-Davies/p/book/9781138686540)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Mark Davies, Kathy Hayward Davies

* ELELex [[information](https://cental.uclouvain.be/cefrlex/elelex)]  
  A lexicon for Spanish as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project  
  Credit: (unknown)

* Word frequency data [[information](https://www.wordfrequency.info/spanish.asp)]  
  Frequency list based on Corpus del Español  
  Credit: Mark Davies

* Word knowledge lists [[information](http://crr.ugent.be/papers/Aguasvivas_et_al_2020_Frontiers.pdf)]  
  List of words that native speakers know (based on prevalance value)  
  Credit: Jose Aguasvivas, Manuel Carreiras, Marc Brysbaert, Paweł Mandera, Emmanuel Keuleers, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia

## Swedish

* Akademiska ordlistor [[information](https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/projects/ao)]  
  Academic word list of Swedish words  
  Credit: Håkan Jansson, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Judy Ribeck, Emma Sköldberg

* Kelly (Swedish) [[information](https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/resources/kelly), [download](https://svn.spraakdata.gu.se/sb-arkiv/pub/lexikon/kelly/Swedish-Kelly_M3_CEFR.xls)]  
  Keywords for Language Learning for Young and adults alike  
  Credit: Adam Kilgarriff, Frieda Charalabopoulou, Maria Gavrilidou, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Saussan Khalil, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Robert Lew, Serge Sharoff, Ravikiran Vadlapudi,  Elena Volodina

* SVALex [[information](https://cental.uclouvain.be/cefrlex/svalex)]  
  A lexicon for Swedish as a foreign language from the CEFRLex project  
  Credit: Thomas François, Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Anaïs Tack

* SweLLex [[information](https://cental.uclouvain.be/cefrlex/swellex)]  
  A lexicon for productive vocabulary for Swedish as a second/foreign language from the CEFRLex project  
  Credit: Elena Volodina, Ildikó Pilán, Ingegerd Enström, Lorena Llozhi, Peter Lundkvist, Gunlög Sundberg, Monica Sandell, Baptiste Degryse, Thomas François

## Turkish

* A Frequency Dictionary of Turkish [[information](https://www.routledge.com/A-Frequency-Dictionary-of-Turkish/Aksan-Aksan-Mersinli-Demirhan/p/book/9781138839670)]  
  Published book (Routledge)  
  Credit: Yeşim Aksan, Mustafa Aksan, Ümit Mersinli, Umut Ufuk Demirhan

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