Silent Posted August 6, 2015 at 11:45 AM Report Posted August 6, 2015 at 11:45 AM @imron I agree in general, but I do find having frequency lists based on popular media to be very useful.... for consuming popular media. The problem is what one considers popular can be hugely different from what some-one else considers popular. The sun and Times use different vocabulary and different grammar. The same is true for Popular science and Fashion magazine. There do exist a few decent lists, but these are basically just a 'random' selection. If you're interested in these you can google for 'corpus mandarin'. It's just I don't have a very complete collection of texts of popular Chinese media... otherwise I could make a great big text file and CTA it. If you want a more personalised approach collect what you like to read and analyse it with a tool like Chinese text analyser. IMHO a 'very complete collection' is a ghost, it does not really exist. You can collect a large amount of data from a very large number of sources however always some sources will be missed. Or the amounts of the different sources are not properly balanced. For all practical study purposes a decent amount of text from a decent amount of sources yields good enough results. Even if you have a very complete set, the moment you open the newspaper you're out of luck as after refugees, greece and a nuclear deal it's likely a new 'pet subject' will come up with again a new vocabulary distribution. Vocabulary distributions in popular media changes over time depending on the latest hypes. I understand where you come from, I chased the same ghost for some time, but for learning puposes I think a shorter term approach is better. Learn what's usefull 'today' and don't worry about tomorrow. 1 Quote
roddy Posted August 6, 2015 at 11:51 AM Report Posted August 6, 2015 at 11:51 AM There's this, which has online searches and is downloadable. Based on tv and film subtitles, so probably about as speech-like as you can hope to get. 1 Quote
New Members Mefis Posted February 13, 2018 at 12:35 PM New Members Report Posted February 13, 2018 at 12:35 PM Wenlin also has a word frequency list. http://guide.wenlininstitute.org/wenlin4.1/Frequency_Statistics Quote
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