Cambridge English Corpus

The Cambridge English Corpus is a multi-billion word collection of written and spoken English. It includes the Cambridge Learner Corpus, a unique bank of exam candidate papers. Our authors study the Corpus to see how English is really used, and to identify typical learner mistakes. This means that Cambridge materials help students to avoid mistakes, and you can be confident the language taught is useful, natural and fully up-to-date.

Cambridge learner's dictionaries, grammar and vocabulary learning materials, and examination, business and general English course books have all benefited from the information in the Cambridge English Corpus. We no longer have to rely on intuition to know what people say or write; instead, we can see what hundreds of different speakers or writers have actually said or written. So, materials developed with our Corpus are more authentic and can illustrate language as it is really used.

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