Thread: First 1000 Words, 5,000 most common Russian words + more

I have been teaching English for awhile and have come accross many lists of the first 1000 words you should learn for converstational fluency. I was wondering if there are any lists for Russian?

You mean a frequency list? http://www.artint.ru/projects/frqlist/frqlist-en.asp

Here's the improved list with English translation: 1000 Most common Russian words

http://masterrussian.com/vocabulary/mos ... _words.htm

Отлично! That's a great list. Glad to say that I have at least 90% of that list in my active vocabulary. How about another 1000?

We'll add more up to 5000 common words. For now, try 500 common verbs and 500 common nouns.
Some words on these lists go beyond 1000 most common words.

Thanks. Will surely check them out.

Not exactly a frequency list, but a nice list that can help boost your vocab fairly quickly. These are Russian words that are found in English. Think of them the other way around and some of them will be useful. Have a look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Russian_origin

To the original poster:

It's Far better to learn a list of top 1000 PHRASES. People don't speak with words much. They speak with phrases. Learning "и" "он" "на" ...uh, that's not all that helpful.

Originally Posted by MasterAdmin

Here's the improved list with English translation: 1000 Most common Russian words

Thanks for the link to that great website!^^ It looks very useful!

901. американский American

Хм-м....

Try to google "частотный словарь русского языка". You will find very interesting links there.

Спасибо, Капитан, за гениальная идея!

Originally Posted by tohca

Спасибо, Капитан, за гениальную идею!

Accusative case here.

Спасибо, SAn, за исправление.

By the way, how about these avatars for you:

Originally Posted by SAn

By the way, how about these avatars for you:

Большое спасибо, SAn! Я изменю её сейчас. Отлично!

Originally Posted by SAn

By the way, how about these avatars for you:

Ja ja! Das ist gut!

Enough to know 3 russian words to speak like a russian. These are ...

Originally Posted by SamGUPS

Enough to know 3 russian words to speak like a russian. These are ...

LOL

But you'll still also need some suffixes to form nouns and adjectives with different meanings, and prefixes to form verbs.

Waw awesome list! I understand that studying a language requires attention to grammar rules + memorise vocabulary. Often , I prefer the first part and avoid the other , but I promisse this time it will be different!
Using the former informations I ´d like to try to say :

FROM BRAZIL TO RUSSIA

(PLEASE ANYBODY CORRECT ME..)

с бразилий на русский
IS IT?