So when will the "alternative" vocabulary lists go live? Also, this would make a really cool list:

http://eatdrinkchengdu.blogspot.com/2009/04/hot-pot-menu.html

Common ingredients for hotpot!

I was wondering about the very same thing just an hour ago.
I buy the was thinking it would be cool to have list with all those "good wishes" the Chinese like giving..

wan shi ru yi
gong xi fa cai

(those two are the only ones I can come up with right now and I'm not even sure how to write them:)

David

They'll go up with the custom list system, where you can make your own lists. The absolute deadline for that is about two weeks from now; we want to have it ready for a teacher conference later on in the month. Also, the only feature I want more than the custom lists is Japanese!

It's a big feature though... hope I can pull it off by then! Luckily I can recycle that add word widget used with the Queue, and all the Javascript practice I've been getting will probably help.

万事如意
恭喜发财

Here's a few more for that list
身体健康
一切顺利
天天开心

Some of my friends in China would really like it if I could sing some of their karaoke songs in Mandarin. Perhaps there eventually could be vocabulary lists for some of the Chinese karaoke standards. Character recognition is especially important when they are scrolling across the screen, and it seems like learning them in the context of a song could be a learning tool.

http://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/char/list.php?Which=MO

How about a list for the first 4000 characters in order of frequency :P

That's essentially the HSK lists, ximeng. I've ordered them by those frequencies as well as by their importance in all the other textbooks we have, so they are a good general-purpose list like that. Although, they do have words in them, instead of just characters.

For karaoke songs, I don't know how we'd go about getting a karaoke list together. If someone can find out, though, it can fly as a custom list.

I'd like to see the vocabulary from "Chinese Made Easier" by Martin Symonds added. I have an excel spreadsheet of that vocabulary if you're interested in adding it.

ndsino, send me an email with the spreadsheet and I'll see what I can do!
My email is here: http://www.skritter.com/team