Understanding of 95-98% of a text normally required for vocabulary to be acquired in context, a level of comprehension typically achieved with a vocabulary of between 7,500 and 9,000 word families.
This deck is intended to supplement the existing “4000 Most Frequent German Words” decks available on Anki Web and help bridge the gap between the vocabulary covered in the existing “4000 Most Frequent German Words” decks and the level of vocabulary required for comfortable reading of native German texts.
The vocabulary to create this “mid-frequency” deck has been sourced from: a word frequency list for the 5000 most frequently used words in German; the vocabulary lists for the Goethe Institute A2 and B1 examinations, a word list of B2 and C1 vocabulary and the highest frequency words appearing in the Mannheim DeReWo Grundformenliste. Duplicates of words appearing in the Routledge Frequency Dictionary of German were then removed and the remaining words were then ordered by frequency based on the frequency data from the DeReWo Grundformenliste. Example sentences and English translations were sourced from the Tatoeba database and the Reverso Contexto website and audio files were generated using the Awesome TTS Anki add on.
