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Good custom lists

Doug (松俊江)   December 1st, 2009 8:11a.m.

So, anybody have any particular favorite custom lists out there? Daily life ones from Shanghai/China generally?

I'd love to study words that I see every day or for particular times (e.g. airport words, KFC's Chinese menu, major streets/subway stops, HSK registration form words) as pre-Skrittering them, seeing them when I go to do an activity and then writing about them diary-style for my tutor to mark means I'll know them cold and it's always interesting to make connections. e.g. 中专 is airport connection and the word 转 means to turn around - this makes one more Chinese connection in my head; I think there are many more connections like that just waiting to be made.

Also, is anybody entering the textbooks Chuji Hanyu Kouyu / 初级汉语口语 book 1 published by Peiking University (www.pup.cn) or Chuji Hanyu Tingli / 初级汉语听力 book 2 published by BCLU? I don't want to enter the character lists if someone already has (or is doing so). Both books are used at East China Normal University.

nick   December 1st, 2009 12:45p.m.

Are either of these matches for the second book?

http://www.skritter.com/vocab/list?list=agVza3JpdHIZCxINVm9jYWJMaXN0SW5mbyIGbGlzdDI3DA
http://www.skritter.com/vocab/list?list=agVza3JpdHIWCxINVm9jYWJMaXN0SW5mbxiG2f8FDA

I can never keep these textbooks straight. Need to do a lot of tidying up, consolidating lists, and adding more info and names in different styles (English, pinyin, 汉字) so that it's easier to tell. I also want to move a bunch of the custom lists that are textbooks over to the official textbooks section eventually.

Doug (松俊江)   December 2nd, 2009 6:59a.m.

Nick, thanks for looking but unfortunately they are different books. It is surprising just how many textbooks there are (not to mention HSK books).

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