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Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - Cranks - 2011-02-20
Hi folks,
This may or may not be appropriate, but I am wondering if anyone would be willing to post up their grammar decks. Apart from the fact that the Anki ones are pretty much sentences without any sort of information, I would love to see how people are putting theirs together.
Also, does anyone have a list of 1000 or so really solid words (like action verbs, high use adjectives, adverbs, etc. rather than a list of nouns, as these seem most useful to me now.) I am thinking about doing a top 500 cram deck based on English lists of these lexical categories and going through them in Japanese. If I do actually do it I will post it up in return. (I've done pretty much everything Anki has to offer so far.)
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - Cranks - 2011-02-20
Anything JLPT 3 upwards would be particularly good. You can email me if you don't feel comfortable posting information below.
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - iSoron - 2011-02-20
Cranks Wrote:Also, does anyone have a list of 1000 or so really solid words (like action verbs, high use adjectives, adverbs, etc. rather than a list of nouns, as these seem most useful to me now.)Here are some lists I created from a corpus of light novels (140 volumes, half a million sentences): i-adjectives, na-adjectives, adverbs, adverbial conjunctions, adverbial nouns, suru verbs and other verbs. If you learn every adjective in level 4, you will still find, on average, one unknown adjective in every 5 adjectives. For levels 3, 2 and 1, the numbers are one unknown in every 10, 20 and 50, respectively. (level 1 is probably not very reliable; but I think the other levels are good enough)
Bonus: top bikkuri adverbs by frequency.
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - pm215 - 2011-02-20
iSoron Wrote:Bonus: top bikkuri adverbs by frequency.Huh, I'd never have guessed すっかり would be top-5...
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - iSoron - 2011-02-20
pm215 Wrote:Huh, I'd never have guessed すっかり would be top-5...And ironically, びっくり is not even on the list, because it's not an adverb.
Bonus #2: top bikkuri verbs by frequency.
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - Cranks - 2011-02-20
Quite a long list iSoron. How did you go about using it? I resorted the suru nouns and there were still over 1000 odd in the level 4 category alone.
Edit: After look it over that's about 4000 or so items in level 4 across the lists you posted. That's quite a lot, lol. Good resource though.
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - iSoron - 2011-02-20
Cranks Wrote:Quite a long list iSoron. How did you go about using it?I didn't have that list when I was a beginner, so I didn't use it. The list I used was based on EDICT (popular entries) and kanji frequencies; it was not as good as this one. Basically, I just added some fixed amount of cards everyday. I did not studied the words previously, nor did I created mnemonics; I just dumped the words into Anki. The only thing slightly special was the ordering in which the cards were added (here's a description). After adding ~2000 words, I started reading light novels, and after ~6000 I stopped adding new cards (because I was lazy; don't do this).
Cranks Wrote:After look it over that's about 4000 or so items in level 4 across the lists you posted. That's quite a lot, lol.If you learn 20 words a day, you'll finish in 6 months; that's nothing. (I suggest you keep a slow and steady pace, instead of rushing in the beginning and then having to review thousands of cards later. You can use that simulator to plan ahead)
Grammar Decks + 1000+ most useful conversation words [request] - Cranks - 2011-02-20
Nice. Looking over the verbs and i-adjectives I could see myself including these into my deck at about 200 or so a week. At the moment I have a weekly SRS limit of 700 new cards. Most of my vocabulary comes from the wild right now, but I plan to start reading more difficult content shortly and wouldn't mind a head start. I will definitely have to consider exactly what to study (maybe anything with a frequency rate of over 300 or so).
Thanks heaps for posting this up iSoron. This really helps.