How many words does it take to become basic conversational? 500 words. That’s it! In this book, you’ll read, listen and practice using the 500 most common American English words in the context of 77 real life dialogues. You’ll be exposed to the 500 words at least 4 times throughout the book. This book includes: - 77 “Bite-sized” English Dialogues using the 500 words in context - Made for English as a second language learners and teachers (ESL) - 77 FREE Audio Dialogues in Normal and Slow Speed - 500 Word Dictionary with Example Sentences - 6 Dialogues sections to help you stay organized in your learning. - List of 500 Of The Most Commonly Used Words In USA English After reading, listening, studying and speaking these Real Life English dialogues, you'll be on your way to sounding more native and speaking with confidence in a variety of situations. Buy this key English learning (ESL) resource today!

This volume represents the first book-length corpus-based contrastive studies of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet distinctly different world languages in the 21st century, on the basis of large matching corpora of authentic spoken and written data in the two languages.

Rapid advances in computing have enabled the integration of corpora into language teaching and learning, yet in China corpus methods have not yet been widely adopted. Corpus Linguistics in Chinese Contexts aims to advance the state of the art in the use of corpora in applied linguistics and contribute to the expertise in corpus use in China.

The Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD) Conference 2002, it should be noticed, is now being held for the ?fth time and we are pleased to observe that in its short history it has turned out to be an international forum successfully intertwining the basic ?elds of NLP. It is our strong hope that the conference contributes to a better understanding between researchers from the various areas and promotes more intensive mutual cooperation. So far the communication between man and computers has displayed a one-way nature, humans have to know how the - chines work and only then can they “understand” them. The opposite, however, is still quite far from being real, our understanding of how our “user-friendly” computers can understand us humans is not deep enough yet. A lot of work has to be done both in the near and distant future. Let TSD 2002 be a modest contribution to this goal. The conference also serves well in its second purpose: to facilitate researchers meeting in the NLP ?eld from Western and Eastern Europe. Moreover, many participants now come from other parts of the world, thus making TSD a real crossroadsforresearchersintheNLParea. Thisvolumecontainstheproceedings of this conference held in Brno, September 9–12, 2002. We were honored to have as keynote speakers James Pustejovsky from Brandeis University, and Ronald Cole from the University of Colorado. We would like to thank all the Program Committee members and external reviewers for their conscientious and diligent reviewing work.