Word lists in .txt format for intermediate/advanced learners?

[kroy123]

I've been studying the HSK 6 word list (http://data.hskhsk.com/lists/HSK%20Official%202012%20L6.txt)%C2'> ton over the past year and have become pretty familiar with it. Are there any other big word lists for someone at a reasonable level I can study from (preferably in a simple txt file)?

[tysond]

SUBTLEX-CH

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880003/

 

It's a frequency list based on subtitles for movies and TV shows.  Be aware they seem to have included a lot of translated subtitles which of course will differ a bit from native usage.  But it's still Chinese people translating so they have selected words that are probably pretty common in their opinion.

 

But it's still quite a good list for watching TV and movies.   伙计 is not in HSK, for example.   And there's lots of action/murder/drama/suspense oriented language of course.

 

There are huge excel files available with frequencies.

[TechKatz]

Is there any advantage to learn from a word list compared to learning words as you encounter them when reading, matching movies etc.? For example my vocab is somewhere between HSK 4 and 5. I recently started reading stories from The Chairman's Bao and made flash cards from the words I dont know. I'm currently at roughly 70 HSK 5 words, 70 HSK 6 words and 500 words not listed in HSK. If all I did was grinding the HSK vocab, wouldnt I still have problems to understand these articles? What's the point of grinding word lists unless its for a test?

[imron]

Are there any other big word lists for someone at a reasonable level I can study from

Yes.  They are called novels.

 

If you're at HSK 6 and beyond then you should be branching in to native content to get new vocabulary.

[Michael H]

TechKatz: I think that learning words as you encounter them is great. The only caveat would be that if you are working with native materials and encountering many new words, you may need to prioritize them and just learn the more important ones.

[tysond]

Frequency is useful. Learning something that is 1000th most frequent is required, but 20000 maybe you can skip it.

Sentence mining - oh here's a frequent word that I don't know well let's go mine some examples.

Also topic coverage. Here are the most frequent 100 words used to describe emotions.

That's what lists are good for in my opinion.