Comments on: Vocabulary lists that help you learn Chinese and how to use them

By: Mark Peterson

Mark Peterson — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 01:37:57 +0000

The one textbook I know of that does this well – picking words that are useful and/or high-frequency – is John DeFrancis’s Beginning Chinese Reader (and Intermediate and Advanced Chinese Readers). He explicitly introduced characters based on their frequency (e.g. the top 400 characters are introduced in Beginning Chinese Reader), and then useful words based on those characters. Really well done – the problem is that it’s so old that the vocabulary is quite out of date.

By: 万博

万博 — Mon, 18 May 2020 01:15:16 +0000

That’s a Great list of Chinese Vocabulary. I need to Do hard work to learn Chinese. Thanks For this Great post.

By: Pie bright

Pie bright — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:10:23 +0000

I do appreciate because the chinese language is beautiful.

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:18:10 +0000

Excellent. The voice of experience and common sense. Many thanks.

By: Samuel Tonini

Samuel Tonini — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 21:42:22 +0000

Thanks Olle for another great and useful article.

Currently, I have my own list which grows day by day. My daily process is like using my LinuxOS with a Chinese language setup and chatting with people via the HelloTalk app. This combination alone gave me a great boost in the last 3 weeks. Sure there is always Anki and Skritter aside all of that. 🙂

Regards,

Samuel