Why there's no Routledge Frequency Dictionary of Italian?

[Le Baron]

It is harder to put hand gestures in a textbook.

I missed this. Just actually laughed out loud.

[Beli Tsar]

To give the boring, ex-publisher's answer: if it's anything like my experience, it's highly likely that Routledge commissioned someone to do it, but that said author/academic is too busy/important/sick/bored to actually deliver. And either they keep promising or you can't find someone else or for some other reason you can't cut them out of the contract and start over.

This always happens when you commission a big series. Some volumes are out within a couple of years, others you are still trying to wheedle out of an author a decade later...

Knowing that doesn't actually help with Italian vocabulary, of course.

[zenmonkey]

I looked at the price of these. Wow. What makes them so special, because they are quite expensive?

[Le Baron]

I looked at the price of these. Wow. What makes them so special, because they are quite expensive?

Yes, all of Routledge's language books seem expensive. They give away the audio material though, so I assume they hope to make up money on the books. I think they should probably do it the other way around.

[einzelne]

I'm more partial to the "Le mot et l'idée" series (in French) though you may also take a look at the "Mastering Vocabulary" or "Practice Makes Perfect" series.

And there's this if German is OK for you:
https://www.langenscheidt.com/shop/italienisch/schule-studium/wortschatz/langenscheidt-grundwortschatz-italienisch-978-3-12-563337-7

I know these books but they don't reply on statistical analysis. They introduce words like "tile" or "mummy" and no way such words can be in in the first 5k of most frequent words. Routledge is unbeatable when it comes to real frequency dictionaries.

To give the boring, ex-publisher's answer: if it's anything like my experience, it's highly likely that Routledge commissioned someone to do it, but that said author/academic is too busy/important/sick/bored to actually deliver.

Yes, that's what I thought but I was wondering if there any rumors regarding their Italian frequency dictionary.