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Finnish Master Vocabulary This the 4th book in the Finnish Frequency Dictionary series. With this final book, you will increase your vocabulary from roughly CEFR C1 up to C2+. This book is for advanced students and those who achieved early fluency. This book is for you if you want to improve your Finnish even further. By knowing the most used 10.000 words, you will have a vocabulary comparable to an adult native speaker with higher education. You will be able to understand 98% of all spoken and 95% of all written Finnish. You will be able to express yourself with ease, and you have the capacity to deal with academic or cognitively demanding material. You are able to use language to good effect at a level of performance which may in certain aspects be more advanced than that of an average native speaker. It is not necessary to have read the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd book in the series for you to enjoy this frequency dictionary. It can be used as a stand-alone tool, or in conjunction with any other language method. This book contains: 7.501-10.000 most common Finnish words, with English translations. Finnish vocabulary ranked by general frequency and alphabet. Frequency as part of speech (most used adjectives, nouns, verbs, etc.) 2.500 Finnish to English example sentences. IPA Phonetic spelling Why Study By Frequency? While it’s important to note it’s impossible to pin down these numbers and statistics with 100% accuracy, these are a global average of multiple sources. According to research, this is the amount of vocabulary needed for varying levels of fluency: 250 words: the essential core of a language. Without these words, you cannot construct sentences. 750 words: those that are used every single day by every person who speaks the language. 2500 words: those that should enable you to express everything you could possibly want to say, although some creativity might be required. 5000 words: the active vocabulary of native speakers without higher e