I would like to share with you what I’ve just finished compiling. It’s a list of all the vocabulary (characters, pronunciation, definition) from all five volumes of the new edition of Practical Audio-Visual Chinese (新版實用視聽華語). (This is the book generally used at Shida and in many other places in Taiwan.)
I use these lists with Pleco, both as flashcards and a dictionary, but I bet they can be easily imported into any other Chinese-learning software as well. It’s all traditional characters and Taiwan-style pronunciation. The definitions generally follow the books, but I’ve been trying to improve them for clarity and brevity, or rewrite them whenever they were difficult to decipher (if you ever used this book, you must know what I’m talking about ).
I want to make it a high-quality list. I’ve done a lot of proof-reading and corrected many errors, but unfortunately there must still be a lot of others waiting to be discovered. If you find one, please report it here, so that it can be fixed in the future.
It’s just a plain-text list, you can use it with other software too, perhaps you’d just need to change the format a little. I’m using Pleco on Windows Mobile, and flashcards are part of the standard package, no need for any add-ons. Not sure about the iPhone version.
Is there any way to sort vocabulary within pleco based on lessons within each book? I would like to be able to create flash card sets based on the lesson I am working on at the moment vs. the whole book.
Yeah, they are already categorized like this: Bn means “Book n” and Lmm means “Lesson mm.” Just choose the right category in
New Flashcard Session -> Categories. For example, if you want to study lesson 6 of book 3, just select the category AV Chinese/B3/L06 (and make sure nothing else is selected).
In case anybody is looking for them, I wrote a small script and converted the list posted here. The list uses the “tone marks” pingyin instead of numbers, and is organized in a format for the very excellent flashcards deluxe app for iphone. Also, each lesson is a seperate file, and are combines into books, and finally a flat file “dict”.
Great to see you find them useful. I’ve just posted an updated version. This includes many fixes (unfortunately there were some errors), as well as about 700 new words, which appear outside the word lists in book 3 and 4 (but they’re in separate categories, in case you don’t want to learn them ) I’ve studied through all of these words now, so hopefully the quality of the list is much higher than it was before. Enjoy!
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