THIRD IN A SERIES OF RELATED STUDIES UNDERTAKEN TO ARRIVE AT THE CORE ELEMENTS OF SPOKEN GERMAN, THIS LIST IS BASED ON THE LATEST COMPUTER TECHNIQUES IN FREQUENCY ANALYSIS. AN INTRODUCTION EXAMINES AND REDEFINES THE CONCEPT OF IDIOMATIC PATTERNS. THE BODY OF THE TEXT LISTS, BY FREQUENCY AND RANGE, 1,100 OF THE MOST COMMON IDIOMS IN SPOKEN GERMAN. APPENDIXES INCLUDE COMMON IDIOMS CONTAINING WORDS NOT FOUND IN THE WORD LIST, AND LESS COMMON IDIOMS WITH WORDS RESTRICTED TO THE LIST. TOGETHER WITH THE "BASIC (SPOKEN) GERMAN WORD LIST" (ED 012 349) AND THE "INDEX OF ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS FOR THE BASIC (SPOKEN) GERMAN WORD LIST" (ED 012 350), THIS BOOK ENABLES THE BEGINNING STUDENT "TO PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY IN 85 PERCENT OF ANY ORDINARY CONVERSATION IN GERMAN." THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE FOR $2.75 FROM PRENTICE-HALL, INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY. (AF)