1,500 words in 30 days

[Glenn]

I'm on a much less ambitious plan than this (there's no way I could keep up): I just started adding words with their readings and definitions/English glosses as appointments in Outlook, so throughout the workday I get reminders of the words I put in there. I have it set for every weekday, and I figure when it starts feeling like it's getting in there, I'll push it out to weekly. This is coupled with lots of listening and some reading. The hope is that it'll help me more easily pick out words when I hear them and know what they mean. Of course, presently I only have 4 or so, so the pace is pretty slow (and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to have the reminders and appointments popping up every 15 minutes, so there's a limit to how many I can put in there). I have no idea how well this will work, but it's an idea that's fairly easy to implement that doesn't require me putting much effort into setting time aside, which was appealing.

Also, my level isn't that high and the words I'm doing are more frequent ones. Just thought I'd add that.

[gato]

I'm pretty certain I don't have the time to find 50 new words each day. That sounds sad and like a poor excuse, but I'm actually really, really busy right.

In case you are interested, I have attached here about 800 words that I have looked up and added as Pleco flash cards in the last five years. They are mostly from magazine readings. The file is in UTF-8 encoding. Each line has the word, pinyin and definition, separated by a tab.

Hopefully I didn't keep any naughty words in there. ;)

Flashcards2006.txt

[kongli]

Yes, I thought we'd each take turns posting a list each day.

I figured since this seemed to be an advanced-level activity, and that we'd be dealing with low-frequency vocabulary, that most of the words each of us posted would be new words.

How bout we just post up word lists at our leisure and try to get to 1,500 on day 30 (memorized, posted up words will probably exceed this). That way people can pick from others lists and also compile their own if/when they feel like it. Though I think some of my words will fall into the 'advanced' category, I am certain that I will also have a lot of basics as well (trying to fill in the gaps). But yea, go ahead and post your list today. I will compile mine and get it up shortly after.

Hopefully at the very list this thread will just provide some interesting reading material with cool vocab lists.

[jbradfor]

If you want some "real world" word lists, you're welcome to use our Grand Comic Project Word Lists.

[kongli]

My first word list. Pulled from the article 简论1957年农村两条道路的大辩论。 Pretty dry stuff and I find the scholarship quite weak, but on the other hand not a whole lot of complex words and an okay,though completely non-critical, overview of collectivization and the great debate on the two paths (capatalism or socialism) and touches on the Anti-rightist campaign (without actually saying it) . short though, which means I actually read it, woohoo!

Not sure how to attach a list of flash cards but the are listed same as gato's.

Edit: Here is the link to the text http://www.csscipaper.com/chinahistory/xdszt/11263_2.html

List 1.docx

[kdavid]

Here's my first list. I've also included the text from which I took the words.

内容简介：

延安整风运动是深刻影响二十世纪中国历史进程的重大事件，这是由毛泽东亲自领导的中共党内第一次大规模政治运动，也是建国后历次政治运动的滥觞。毛泽东在延安整风中运用他所创造的思想改造和审干、肃反两种手段，全面清除了中共党内存留的五四自由民主思想的影响，彻底转换了中共的「俄化」气质，重建了以毛泽东为绝对主宰的上层结构，奠定了党的全盘毛泽东化的基础，其间所产生的一系列概念、范式在1949年后改变了亿万中国人的生活和命运。本书作者历时十余年，搜寻考辨大量历史资料，在此基础上，从实证研究的角度，详细剖析了延安整风的前因后果及运动所涉及的各个方面，力图再现当年这场运动的历史真貌，是目前海内外唯一一本全面研究延安整风运动的历史著作。

1942年冬春之际，在中共战时首府延安，随即在中共领导的各抗日根据地，开始了一幕延续多年的大规模政治运动──整风运动，由于这场运动是以延安为中心，又以在延安开展的运动最为典型，史称「延安整风运动」。

延安整风运动是中共历史上进行的第一次全党范围的政治运动，这个运动是和毛泽束的名字紧密联系在一起的，这是一场由毛泽东直接领导，包括诸多方面内容的党内整肃和重建的运动，它包含：

党内上层的斗争与党的中央权力机构的改组；

全党的思想改造；

审查干部的历史和「肃反」；

新制度的创设。

在上述几个方面中，党内上层的斗争和领导机构的改组始终处于中心地位。

延安整风运动发端于1942年初，但是它的真正起步却在1942年以前的很长时间就已经开始。它最初表现为1935年遵义会议后至1937年间，毛泽东运用其在中共领导层中所获得的相对优势地位对中共政策及领导机构作出的局部调整，这种局部调整在1938年中共六届六中全会后迅速转变为毛泽东对中共政治路线、组织机构、精神气质等方面所进行的一系列重大改变。1938年秋在延安举行的中共六届六中全会对于毛泽东具有决定性的意义，这次会议，将毛泽东于1935年后在军权、党权方面的权力扩张予以合法化，使毛泽东在中共核心层中的地位得到极大的加强。从1938年未至1941年秋，是毛泽东操纵局势演变、并使其党内对手日益虚弱的权力再扩张的重要阶段。这个过程在 1941年 9月政治局扩大会议上达到高潮，以毛泽东当面向王明发起挑战，并获得全胜而告结束。

在多年精心准备的基础上，延安整风的大幕终于在1942年初拉开。延安整风运动是毛泽东运用其政治优势，彻底改组中共上层机构，重建以毛为绝对主宰的上层权力再分配的过程。同时，延安整风运动又是毛泽东以自己的理念和思想，彻底转换中共的「俄化」气质，将中共改造成为毛泽东的中共的过程。

毛泽东在整风中运用他所创造的思想改造和审干、肃反两种手段，沉重打击了党内存留的五四自由民主思想的影响和对苏俄盲目崇拜的气氛，不仅完成了党的全盘毛泽东化的基础工程，而且还建立起一整套烙有毛泽东鲜明个人印记的中共新传统，其一系列概念与范式相沿成习，在1949年后改变了几亿中国人的生活和命运。

经过多年的斗争，毛泽东改变了他原先在中共领导层内孤立的处境，在延安整风运动中，毛泽东与刘少奇的政治结合得到进一步的巩固，在刘少奇的全力支持下，毛泽东使中共核心层完全接受了他的主张和他的至高无上的个人权威。造成历史上毛泽东一度「孤立」的原因，是他的有别于莫斯科正统理论之「异端」想法和他个人的专断性格，经过实践证明。毛泽东在军事战略方面的「异端」主张，大大有利于中共实力的扩展，这种结果，迫使中共党内的亲莫斯科派向毛泽东输诚，同时，也将中共高级军事将领重新聚集在自己的周围。毛泽东的专断性格最早暴露于1930—1931年由他亲自参与领导的「肃 AB团」大镇压，此事件曾造成江西红色根据地的严重危机和中共力量的削弱。1935年后，面对复杂多变的严峻形势，毛泽东暂时收敛了他的专断个性，但是随着毛泽东在中共党内控制力的不断加强。其专断个性在1941年后又再度复苏，而此时，中共高层已再无可能对毛泽东的专断行为予以有效的约束。

毛泽东在延安整风运动中有意放纵其专断的个性，使之有机地配合于自己的政治目的。在上层，毛泽东以我划线，创造并利用一切机会打击异己；在延安和各根据地，毛泽东策动整肃全党干部的「抢救运动」，放任恐怖政治。由毛泽东植入中共肌体的极左的审干、肃反政策，经过整风运动，演化为党的性格的一部分，对1949年后的中国带来长期不良的影响。

延安整风为毛泽东显现其复杂诡奇的政治谋略提供了舞台。毛泽东敢于突破中共历史上的常规，其手法深沉老辣，对其对手心境之揣摩和制敌谋略的运用，均达到出神入化、炉火纯青的地步。毛泽东的谋略既来之于他对中国古代政治术的熟练运用，又源之于他对俄共「格伯乌」手段的深刻体会。在毛泽东的强力驱动下，通过1945年中共七大，毛将中共所有权力都集中于自己手中。毛泽东的公共关系形象在整风前后也得到充分展现，伴随日益升温的对毛泽东个人崇拜的气氛，毛泽东有意识地在全党和国人面前显现自己的领袖姿态。在公众场合和他与各方人士的会晤中，毛泽东常常扮演礼贤下士、虚怀若谷的「明主」角色，接人待物诚恳、得体，从而赢得中共广大党员和国统区社会各界人士对他个人的普遍好感。但在党内高层，毛泽东放纵其刚愎自负、桀傲不驯的个性，对昔日政敌睚眦必报，对党内同僚峭刻嘲讽，由于毛泽东随时调换他的两副面孔，致使外界对他长期缺乏深切的了解。

发生在1942─1945年的延安整风运动，虽然已经过去五十多年，但是在传统意识形态术语的演绎不，其全貌至今尚混沌不明。本书的目的，并不在于对主流话语系统中有关整风运动的论断展开辩驳，而是试图通过对远近各种有关延安整风运动史料的辨析和梳理。对延安整风运动进行新的研究，拂去历史的尘埃，将延安整风运动的真貌显现出来，在官修的历史之外，提供另一种历史叙述和解释，斯是吾愿，是否达到这个目标。还有待读者评判吧！

红太阳 20110325.txt

[gato]

Careful. You are going to be harmonized.

[kongli]

Hey Kdavid, can u post the words in a word document format? i can't open it as is.

[imron]

You can't open a txt file? You should be able to open it up in just about anything.

P.S. @kdavid 创设 is chuàngshè not chuāngshè

[kongli]

When I open it all I get is this:

濫觴 滥觞 lan4shang1 /the origin of some phenomenon

[kdavid]

I exported that file from ZDT. You may not have unicode turned on?

Word file attached.

红太阳 20110325.doc

[edelweis]

Although I swore off cramming, I am curious about this challenge. How much time per day do you spend on each activity (such as reading, creating the word lists, drilling and reviewing...)

And, do you have other obligations (such as classes or work).

It does make sense to select a topic for this kind of endeavour, both for motivation (if it's a topic you are interested in) and being able to find more articles with overlapping vocabulary.

加油！

[eya323]

Ok. I'm a day late posting and my word list is shorter than I had hoped, BUT if you are interested in vocabulary to help you read newspaper articles about earthquakes and tsunamis, Europe's debt crisis, and nuclear power, then the attached list might help! The vocabulary all comes from BBC Chinese. I'll post the article links next time.

Working on my list for today now!

FS 03262011.rtf

[eya323]

Please see attached for my vocabulary words for today. These come from two articles, one about the war in Libya and one about the budget cut protests in London.

03262011 2.rtf

[imron]

When I open it all I get is this:

What operating system do you use, and what program did you try to open it with?

[jbradfor]

I would guess it's an encoding issue, whatever you are using is not reading it as UTF-8.

[kongli]

I am using a mac osx. It just opens on its own and won't let me choose what to open it with.

Now back to cramming!

[imron]

Yeah, unfortunately the equivalent of notepad on Macs doesn't seem to like text files - and especially not utf8 ones.

For future reference in case you ever find yourself in a similar situation, probably the easiest way to open a text file like this on a Mac is to go to Safari and go File->Open then browse to the file and select it.

You may also need to manually set the encoding to utf8 to read the Chinese: View->Text Encoding->Utf8

[pancake]

Yeah, unfortunately the equivalent of notepad on Macs doesn't seem to like text files - and especially not utf8 ones.

If you're referring to TextEdit.app then that's not exactly right - it deals with UTF-8 just fine. You may, however, have to select the correct encoding in the "open" dialog box.

[imron]

Ah, so it does. I guess I was referring to just double clicking on a utf8 txt file, in which case it throws up an error and fails to open. That coupled with the fact that it doesn't allow you to save in plaintext format (only RTF and a bunch of others) had led me to assume it didn't support plaintext.