Re: RESOURCE: Basic and Additional Vocabulary

On Sun, 7 May 2006, Carsten Becker wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Here's one for you: _Basic and Additional Vocabulary_, or, _Grund- und
> Aufbauwortschatz Englisch_ by Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1977. I think I
> posted a notification on this before, but now I have [b]finished[/b]
> copying and corrected it.
>
> So, WHAT is it that I'm talking about -- well, it's kind of a thematic
> dictionary, consisting of 5,500 terms that you should have heard about
> during English classes at school, as a foreigner learning English that
> is. Might be handy for us folks, so I copied it. Since the copyright
> is 1977, some of the stuff in there is not up-to-date anymore and also
> applies to a big part only to the Western world I'm afraid, but see it
> as an inspiration to grow your vocabulary.
>
> Here you can get the file: http://tinyurl.com/mdjnt
Carsten,

Thanks for your efforts!  I've saved a copy
for later use.

Looking through it, it should be a fairly easy
task to process the file to extract the words
as a couple of database tables.  That would
make it even more useful.

Regards,
Yahya


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