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imron –

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If you’re interested in the most commonly used words, the 10,000 HSK words [ ] are a good place to
start.

And by learning only 111.111 words a day, you too can become fluent in 3 months

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roddy –

It’s not as bad as that – there are actually only 8,821 words in the lists I have, so you could
actually learn at the same rate and be fluent in a mere . . 79 days.

The HSK lists are arranged into four levels, with the lower levers being the more frequent (or at
least ‘easier’ and taught first) words. It’s not a full frequency list, but has stuff you’ll find
in both written and spoken forms. It could do with updating though – it includes ‘刑场’ and
‘手榴弹‘, but omits any reference to credit, debit, bank or recharge cards.

You’re better off with a decent stand-alone course of course, and supplementing with the lists
when you need . . .well, lists of words.

renzhe –

Where did that list come from anyway? Is there an official list somewhere? Or was it from some
reverse-engineered HSK study book?

hoosdathu –

different lists depend on the different corpus used. only the first few are consistently the same

roddy –

No, it was produced as part of the basis for the HSK exam. You’ll find it in various HSK syllabus
books published by BLCU. How closely they stick to it in the actual exam I don’t know, but it’s an
official part of the HSK ‘stable’.

LaoZhang –

Here’s a list someone sent to me. I checked it against the written frequency lists I already have
and assuming that this list is in order, they look like they’re not the same list.

Think this could be it? I this list came to me in an email without being cited, but I’ve asked my
friend for the reference. I’ll edit/post citation when I get it.

roddy –

That looks like a list of the most common 3500 characters, not words, and arranged by stroke order
rather than by frequency. Useful for other purposes perhaps, but not if you are looking for word
frequency information.

LaoZhang –

I’m not giving up. I know it’s out there somewhere!

There “difficulties” in amassing this info due to binoms/trinoms/etc. I’m not a statistician, but
I’d think with computers, it wouldn’t be that hard. From a friend:

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character –

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I’m not giving up. I know it’s out there somewhere!

There are a lot of research papers on Chinese speech recognition (don’t ask me for them; google is
your friend). Perhaps their lists of references would be a good place to start looking.

self-taught-mba –

Voice recognition in Chinese: 语音识别软件

Those sources don’t disclose a lot though.

I am working on a project that should yield something though.

Nothing is getting done unitl my voice recog software gets fixed. How ironic.

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Loriquero –

english… still poor I have problems trying to pronounce: “brokeback mountain” and “desperate
housewives”… but it’s weird to me… coming to Shanghai has helped me in my not-so-good
english… too many foreigners here… but it hits directly my aspirations of learning chinese
properly… still a long way to walk

I’m also learning a little bit of oral portuguese… since my gf is brazilian, and south american
spanish is my native language… it doesn’t look so hard So, I’m considering seriously to study
portuguese… (in an academy)… when I go back to my country.

I’m also atracted by japanese (videogame freak posting) and russian (don’t know… there’s
something…), but are not definitely my priorities right now, not struggling with chinese…

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TCcookie –

Spanish – I’ve studied through high school and into university

Cantonese – Just started casually studying

There will probably be another one someday, maybe Japanese? I just have never had any interest in
any romance language but Spanish (except maybe French, but not enough to devote time to it).
Depends on my situation in five years or so, I guess.

jiaoshou –

I just started Mandarin about 9 months ago, so I have lots more to do.

If I were to start another language I think it would be Farsi or Turkish. I need to focus on some
new Arabic dialects too (Iraqi, Moroccan), but that really requires travel.

I think the interesting question also is what other language do you have NO intention to study?
Not out of prejudice, but the difficult ones you don’t want to invest the time in.

My list of no-ways are
(1) greek
(2) japanese
(3) finnish
(4) hungarian

monto –

I have been learnign and using Han Language almost life time (45 years) and still know there are
much more to nearn, but I know I can’t make much progress further. I would like to nearn every
language I know of, but I know I can’t. So I had to say I would like to learn only
1) Latin and
2) Greek

ipsi() –

I’d like to learn Scottish Gaelic (There’s a new one! ), Cantonese, Russian, Japanese, or Korean,
basically. Gaelic because I’m technically Scottish (I’ve lived in New Zealand since I was 4
though, so for over 17 years now), and it would be nice to know some the language of my heritage.
But for that I would basically have to move to Scotland for a while. I don’t think there’s really
a way around that.

The rest, mostly so I can speak the more common languages in or around China. .

No interest in Romance/European Languages, or any of the smaller languages. I’d like a good chance
of using anything I may one day learn .

Might also have to get around to learning Australian one day too… I’m gonna get a hiding for
that

tooironic –

Australian what?

roddy –

Where in Scotland are your family from, Ipsi? If you are lowlanders you might need to go back
quite a way to find a Gaelic speaking ancestor. I’m from the Outer Hebrides, but my parents aren’t
local and I never learned it beyond the very basics – just tried to count to ten and got lost at
six.

Sam Addington –

Nobody mentioned Hindi.

And then of course for the classicists there is always Sanskrit.

But if you want to get into the Buddhist scriptures you’ll have to learn Pali

I was required to learn Japanese for my master’s program in Chinese literature … I was never
quite sure why. PhD candidates had to learn 2 years.

I ended up making a 20 year detour into Japanese and I still wouldn’t use it to do research! You
should see the crazy things the Japanse do to try to read “Kanbun” (汉文）

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