Please consider a three column text file as such:

[word] [reading] [short english definition]

The file is utf-8 format and the columns are delimited by tabs. The English definition is, at the longest, 10 words.

The file would have 1000 rows at the most. Can I create a "custom list" by performing a bulk upload of this file? Or, am I limited to creating custom lists by how much I can input by hand?

thanks.

Copy and paste them into your list. You'll have to do it in sections of up to 200 at a time, but the list editor will accept the format you describe just fine.

I cannot use my own definitions, right?

For example, I would like to use Japanese definitions for the Japanese words in my list.

Is this possible?

Unless the Japanese section is different from the Chinese section, you have to go in afterwords and add your own definitions. You can also hit the Japanese- Japanese button, I think.

To add them manually, after you have saved your list, go back and click each item's Kanji. From the pop up you can change the definition/add a custom definition. You would just cut and paste your text file's definition section to the custom definition area. Rinse, Lather, Repeat. That is a bit time consuming, though.

@west316
Thanks for the instructions. I can work with this during the coming holidays.

Probably Japanese definitions are too ambitious. However, I will start cranking out my own lists for the JLPT (level 2) with my own definitions. All the current JLPT lists seem flawed to me.

My impression is that I am the only guy not studying Chinese; I feel a little lonely. Chinese was just too hard for me. Anyone who can't hack it, can join me in studying Japanese. We have easy pronunciations, phonetic alphabets, use only simple Chinese characters, etc.

I bet the Skritter dudes are interested in uploading your Japanese definition if they're not ripped off from somewhere else.

I'd shoot them an email with your Japanese definition file.

@ Azurei - Don't feel too lonely about the Japanese. There are Japanese students here. They aren't as vocal as we Chinese students, though. To be honest, one of the big reasons why I went for Chinese over Japanese was cost. It was a heck of a lot cheaper to live in China for one and a half years than it would be to live in Japan. Nick also recently revealed that your numbers are increasing. If this trend continues, you all may equal us, eventually.

It was my understanding that Japanese used more traditional characters than simplified ones, though.

west316 nailed it, as usual. azurei, if you're going to upload some Japanese-Japanese definitions, it'd be awesome if you could set your language to Japanese-Japanese in the upper right and set them as corrections. That way we can integrate them into the main system for anyone who wants to study Japanese-Japanese. We hardly have any of those definitions yet, unfortunately. Other users are building a bunch of the other language pairs like this.

If you have a ton of the definitions already and they aren't copied from somewhere restrictive, you can email me and I can bulk upload them for you. Or you can create the list, and then click a word in the list, click to edit the definition, then click "Next Word" to cycle through all words and put in your definitions. Unfortunately, it doesn't currently make custom definitions for you if you paste in a big list like described above.