Russian Learner's Dictionary: 10,000 Russian Words in Order of Frequency

I've bought a lot of books in trying to increase my vocabulary in Russian. This one, however, has been the most practical. It seems like every time I learned one of the most frequently used words, I'd begin to hear it almost immediately (we were living in Russia at the time).

Before this, I'd picked up a lot of words (thousands) that I simply never used. Wish I'd had this book about a year earlier.

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.