1766 Mandarin Verbs

[Hero Doug]

I'm going to work on vocab for a long while and have decided to start with verbs. I've come across a very impressive list of verbs posted at verbix

I checked a random selection of roughly 20 verbs and their translations seem to be spot on. I'm not sure if these are all modern verbs or if many of them are more traditional so hopefully someone with a high level of Chinese can take a quick look and let us know about the quality of this list.

verbs.zip

Edited August 28, 2009 at 11:57 AM by Hero Doug

[katyjo]

A verb list would not be helpful to me. I'd rather see a whole sentence where the verb is used. I think some of the verbs on that list would rarely be used by a typical Chinese learner.

[imron]

I agree that word lists are probably not the best way to accumulate vocabulary. Instead, everyday pick a couple of short newspaper articles (or the first paragraph or two of longer ones). Read through them, underline the words you don't know. Go back, look up all the words you had underlined, put them in your flashcard program etc, read the article again. This way, you'll not only be accumulating large amounts of new vocabulary, you'll also be seeing it in context and you'll be getting exposure to words that are in regular use.

It can be pretty daunting if you find that you've underlined 60-70% of say the first paragraph, but over time that will be whittled down, and if you find yourself faced with such a worse case scenario, you can just imagine the article as one big word list arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom without any spaces

[Hero Doug]

As for seeing the verb in context you can always check out http://dict.cn It will show you the context of the verb.

As for the newspaper article suggestion, it's a solid idea. I think I'll try that actually. It makes sense since it's how I obtained my English vocabulary.

For anyone else who wants to toss on a few words here and there I've formatted the list for jMemorize. It's been attached in the first post.