mods- I don't think this is a technical question as it's relevant for generating large lists for the user's given subject aka learning resource, so please don't delete this one.

theadamie wrote:

mods- I don't think this is a technical question as it's relevant for generating large lists for the user's given subject aka learning resource, so please don't delete this one.

This question is fine.

In response. The 25k word decks basically take the Priority words from EDICT I think. If you look on Jim Breen's website, I believe it explains where he got the figure from. Probably the Tanaka corpus if I had to guess.

theadamie wrote:

HonyakuJoshua wrote:

I can't seem to find this deck?

that's strange, I just looked and it's not there.  I tried it a long time ago but found that it was much better for me to use the decks that went with my textbooks.  I deleted it and don't have it on backup   maybe someone here can email it or re-upload it...

so is there any way to easily re-create what he did but for korean?  I would be willing to put up to 10 hours of work into it + fine tuning if need be, but probably don't have time to take on a bigger project than that

Last edited by theadamie (2012 July 05, 11:57 pm)

And just as with kanji, once you get past a certain threshold of common words that appear in everything, the frequency of a word is heavily dependent on what you are going to be reading.  I know people have this idealistic notion that they'll learn everything so that they'll always be prepared no matter what they read, but that's probably not realistic for most people -- there will almost always be an adjustment period when you read new material to find out the vocabulary specific to it.

yudantaiteki wrote:

And just as with kanji, once you get past a certain threshold of common words that appear in everything, the frequency of a word is heavily dependent on what you are going to be reading.  I know people have this idealistic notion that they'll learn everything so that they'll always be prepared no matter what they read, but that's probably not realistic for most people -- there will almost always be an adjustment period when you read new material to find out the vocabulary specific to it.

good post