How frequently used are the words in the new HSK vocabulary?

[rebor]

Hope this isn't to off-topic: Those of you who build your own decks, do you mainly use vocabulary you come across in native material that you have to look up? Do you analyze texts before reading them and then study the most common ones in that "corpus"? I was thinking about looking through the words in HSK 6 or a textbook like New Practical Chinese Reader and then just adding the words I found must useful/interesting(based on my gut feeling, interests and maybe also after using a frequency list to make sure to avoid very low-frequency ones). Are there people here religiously following frequency lists? In that case, which one(s)? I've decided to finish the HSK 4 and 5 lists(probably about halfway through), and then not continue with HSK 6.

[elliott50]

Are there people here religiously following frequency lists?

Yes rebor, I am. After taking your approach and getting as far as studying all of the HSK 5 vocabulary, I have now refocused on the most frequently used words for my SRS work.

http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html has links to three written frequency lists and you can find a film & TV subtitle frequency list at http://expsy.ugent.be/subtlex-ch/.

[rebor]

Interesting!

I usually pride myself on being technologically savvy, but I must admit I couldn't for the life of me work out how to get a list of the most common ones from there. http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/frqc/internet-zh.num doesn't display characters in any of my browsers. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.

[elliott50]

@rebor, unfortunately the server seems to be down for maintenance or something now. But on my Mac http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/frqc/internet-zh.num loads fine in Safari, Chrome & Firefox. I think it is just a text file encoded in UTF-8, so you may need to switch to this encoding in order to see it properly.

[rebor]

Ah, I just downloaded the file and it works just fine in TextEdit, so apparently it's an issue with my browser(s).

[mokushiroku]

The highest level certificate of the HSK can often be used as proof of translation ability.

I know in my translation jobs, at least, HSK level 6 words come up ALL THE TIME.