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Mandarin Survival
This course teaches you to read the characters that you are most likely to see written down when you are travelling in China (or just visiting China town). Once you can recognise ...
Started by benwhately, Aug. 2, 2010
HSK level 5
All the words in the HSK level 5 exam.
Started by benwhately, April 14, 2012
HSK 4
This is level 4 - Congratulations, you are now getting really pretty good at Mandarin!
Started by benwhately, Oct. 6, 2010
HSK level 3
This is level 3 - don't be put off by the size of the list - loads of these words are building blocks that you have already learned!
Started by benwhately, Nov. 20, 2011
Chinese words by spoken frequency 0 - 1000
Frequency data taken from film subtitles by Qing Cai, Mark Brysbaert. SUBTLEX-CH: Chinese Word and Character Frequencies Based on Film Subtitles. 2010. Vol 5(6). PLoS one.
Started by benwhately, May 5, 2012
Chinese words by spoken frequency 1001 - 2000
Frequency data taken from film subtitles by Qing Cai, Mark Brysbaert. SUBTLEX-CH: Chinese Word and Character Frequencies Based on Film Subtitles. 2010. Vol 5(6). PLoS one.
Started by benwhately, May 8, 2012
HSK Level 2
The HSK is the standard international qualification in Mandarin Chinese. This contains all of the words and characters in the Level 2 syllabus, together with all of the building blocks that make ...
Started by benwhately, Nov. 14, 2011
Characters 1001 - 1500 in Mandarin
The third 500 characters by frequency
Started by benwhately, April 11, 2012
Characters 1501 - 2000 in Mandarin
The 4th 500 characters in Chinese by frequency
Started by benwhately, April 12, 2012
Characters 501 - 1000 in Mandarin
The second 500 characters
Started by benwhately, Jan. 19, 2012
First 500 characters in Mandarin
By popular demand - these are the first 500 character in the order as defined by Patrick Hassel Zein http://www.zein.se/patrick/3000char.html. This list does not include the building blocks for each character, so ...
Started by benwhately, Dec. 26, 2011
Introductory Mandarin (HSK level 1)
This set will give you the foundation you need to be able to communicate in Chinese. The HSK is the standard international qualification in Mandarin Chinese. This course contains all of the ...
Started by benwhately, Oct. 6, 2010
Restaurant Survival
This set of words will help you navigate ordering food in China with words for fruits and vegetables, meats, popular dishes, flavors, drinks, as well as common sayings you'll need at a ...
Started by jacob.s, Nov. 20, 2011
15 Giants of Chinese History
China has the longest and richest history of any nation on Earth. So isn't it about time that you learned who the seminal figures were, and what they did?
Started by jacob.s, Nov. 30, 2011
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The Rest of the HSK Words
These are all of the words (maybe with some extras thrown in) that are on the HSK test but not covered by the Mandarin Comprehensive List.
Started by csokolow, May 17, 2012
Mandarin Comprehensive
The Comprehensive Memrise Mandarin course will teach you to read all the Chinese characters you need.
Started by benwhately, Aug. 16, 2010
Bible - Mandarin Characters
This list contains every individual Mandarin character used in the Chinese Union Version (CUV). The 2,995 characters are arranged by stroke count. PLEASE NOTE: When characters have multiple memrise entries, I have ...
Started by josephpalmer, Feb. 21, 2012
HSK 6
e.g. biology, store, motto, make the decision, lip, to follow, dignity, about, to practice fraud, to act as host ...
Ben's words
e.g. street, to control, stool, order (also: fate, command), new and unusual, alma mater, stool, kindly feelings, life force, to fasten ...
Started by benwhately, May 18, 2011
Bible - Mandarin Characters - NT
This list contains all 2,205 of the individual characters found in the New Testament (Chinese Union Version). This list also contains an additional 127 building blocks to fix dependencies.
Started by josephpalmer, Feb. 20, 2012
Boya Chinese Green Book II
e.g. airplane; plane, late; behind schedule, enter; come in, see; catch sight of, meet; welcome, see sb. off or out, parents; father and mother, return; go back, flight or voyage number, strange; ...
Started by chip.wiley, April 30, 2012
HSK 5
e.g. maternal grandma, work (of art), accomplishment, to write an essay, president (of a country), in a word, ancestral land CL:個|个<em><span>ge4</span></em>, to assemble, ancestor, to prevent ...
Frequent Characters
About 1500 of the most frequent characters. These were taken from my poster. I tried to use mostly characters already in the database to save time. Some characters may have more than ...
Started by hardcore_chinese, Dec. 21, 2011
Theocratic Words
These are some of the most common words related to theocratic activities. This list is based on 4-5 years of material in the Chinese publications of “The Watchtower” and “Our Kingdom Ministry”. ...
Started by fiquett, Oct. 18, 2011
Introduction to Chinese part 3
New practicval Chinese Reader chapters 1-14, Experiencing Chinese Living in China units 1-12. No names, dependencies fixed. Enjoy!
Started by Xaos, Jan. 10, 2012
HSK 4 - new words only
This only contains the vocabulary for the HSK 4 course - it doens't include all of the building blocks that you will need to know to learn these words and characters. This ...
Started by benwhately, Jan. 31, 2012
Chinese for Bagrut
e.g. husband or wife, to love the people, love others as self, father, office, deskman, steamed stuffed bun, newspaper, in the newspaper, newspaper report ...
Started by naama_z, May 12, 2012
Final Study
e.g. gender, (a person's) age, date of birth, nationality, job occupation, address, kingdom, market, region, street ...
Started by 2c64465185ae4aec9a9b27a867a896, April 30, 2012
IB Mandarin ab initio Syllabus
The vocabulary list followed by second year Mandarin ab initio students at Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.
Started by laurashofmann, May 10, 2012
Introduction to Chinese part 2
Words from "introduction to Chinese part 1", complemented with: "New Practical Chinese Reader book 1, chapters 6 - 10" and "Experiencing Chinese - living in China, unit 6 - 10". Dependencies fixed
Started by Xaos, Jan. 10, 2012
Chinese Made Easier 3 (CME 3)
All the vocabulary found in the second edition of Chinese Made Easier 3. I've modified a few of the definitions for clarification and added a few of the measure words. Sorry for ...
Started by kevsunblush, April 6, 2012
2001-3000 most common Chinese characters
Reach for the stars! Characters 2001-3000 on the list of 'most common Chinese characters'. Many thanks to Ryan Kellogg for posting this list at: http://www.plecoforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1674
Started by billiop, April 29, 2012
Boya Chinese I
e.g. you, good; fine, to be, teacher, an interrogative particle, no; not, I; me, student, she, thank you ...
Started by _deleted_120430_1307_03, April 18, 2012
Oxford Chinese FHS Vocab
Political, economic, military and general vocab. I thought I'd put up the News Class vocab up here to get me started on revision - enjoy!
Started by AlexNatch, Feb. 24, 2012
Remember the Hanzi
e.g. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, nine ...
Started by malix, May 7, 2012
Rapid Literacy in Chinese
Following the order in Zhang Pengpeng's Rapid Literacy in Chinese.
Started by MichaelArdaiolo, Dec. 7, 2011
40 Lessons for Basic Chinese Course
Follows the textbook, ¨40 Lessons for Basic Chinese Course¨
Started by MichaelArdaiolo, Feb. 20, 2012
New Practical Chinese Reader p1
All words from the textbook, no names but with dependencies. Based on Xaos' list at http://www.memrise.com/set/10013323/new-practical-chinese-reader-part-1/.
Started by ThomasBk, Feb. 20, 2012
Ten Level Chinese: Integrated Textbook (dependencies fixed)
e.g. dictionary (of Chinese compound words), 不, (what is) your surname?, surname, to want, good, located, also to want, to do something, how about you ...
Started by pehrn, Nov. 23, 2011
Simon's assorted words
Words I've encountered in my studies, primarily from Chinese Breeze books, New Practical Chinese Reader series, various grammar books, and other minor sources.
Started by TL-TheUltimate, Dec. 12, 2011
HD Vokabeln
e.g. 老師, 好, 你, 叫, 什麼, 名字, 我, 是, 哪國, 人 ...
Started by chizue, Feb. 8, 2012
e.g. church (building), to drive a car, teach, to ride, shoe, how, retirement, shop, center, last ...
Started by MichaelArdaiolo, Sept. 6, 2011
IB Theme: Individual and Society
IB Ab initio
Started by edithwhitehead, Oct. 14, 2011
Discussing Everything Chinese Volume 1 Lesson 1
Vocabulary from the intermediate Mandarin textbook Discussing Everything Chinese.
Started by mfgillia, March 11, 2012
Random Mandarin Words
Mandarin Words from Best Mems stumbled upon!! Or the words I badly felt I should know.
Started by sandeepchandi, March 14, 2012
Mandarin 1a
First semester course (2011) at Unitec (Auckland, NZ).
Started by danieltuileighton, Dec. 11, 2011
Boya Chinese Green Book II (redo)
e.g. diary, father, mother, airport, Thailand, check in, outside, bank, convenient, to compare ...
Started by chip.wiley, May 2, 2012
Speed-Up Chinese
Follows the book series "Speed-Up Chinese" ( contains complete book 1 + dependencies from memrise, lesson 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15 )
Started by jtr, Dec. 20, 2011
Practical Chinese Reader II
Good old Practical Chinese Reader II vocabulary list
Started by Rasfunk, March 6, 2012
integrated chinese level 2 part 1
e.g. nothing; nil, about; with regard to, knowledge, Kidney, graduate student, nerveux, anxieux, tendu, new student, cancer, begin a term, healthy ...
Started by fanjiaming, Sept. 7, 2011
Introduction to Chinese part 1
All words taken from: New practical Chinese Reader part 1 chapters 1-5 and "Experiencing Chinese - living in China" - Unit 1-5. Names are not included in word list.
Started by Xaos, Jan. 9, 2012
Speakmandarin - Daily Life
Oral Mandarin course
Started by marcusmarcell, May 9, 2011
Ken's Learning Course
Easy Words but does not include numbers or ones that I find very tedious.
Started by Kenzzhang, Dec. 28, 2011
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