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irrationale
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09 June 2010 at 10:50am | IP Logged 
Mods: I don't know if this is the right forum for this. Feel free to move.

http://rapidshare.com/files/396831550/mandarinmasterdeck.ank i.html as well as search on Shared Decks in anki for "Mandarin Master Deck".

This is my huge Mandarin Chinese anki deck, created totally from scratch over a period of about 1.5 years. It contains;

All Pimsleur vocabulary,
All FSI vocab (besides module 9 and some side modules)
All New Practical Chinese Reader vocab, books 1 through 5 (besides the last 2 units in book 5)
All 5001 words from a Frequency Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese
All HSK levels 1, 2 and 3.
(HSK level 4, for me, was found to be ineffective to learn by a list, and much more effective to learn these words in context from other sources as you come across them, since many are too infrequent to give good returns in memorizing in such a way)

As well as virtually all words up until now I have encountered in Chinese conversation, television, books, etc, including quite a few Chengyu and slang. It has a total of 8081 facts and 2681 characters.

It has a 5 field card system, which I believe is the best possible balance between the efficiency of SRS and the context of reading.

Field 1 : Chinese word
Field 2: Meaning (English or Chinese)
Field 3: Pinyin
Field 4   Chinese sentence
Field 5   English sentence

Production shows Fields 2, 5, Recognition shows 1, 4

As many words have sentences as possible to provide context, this is extremely important for Chinese. If a context is needed for English to be translated into Chinese and the reverse, there is a sentence to give a clue. Usually I added a numeral next to the word if I need to look at the sentence for context. Later on, you should never be looking at the English sentences when you are recognizing a chinese card, that way, you will be doing a 10,000 sentences style immersion. The English equivalents are still there if you get stuck.

My method of design was/is as follows;

1) If a native speaker has spoken the word and has a clear English equivalent, it went to production (and recognition)

2) If a native would never say the word (too formal, technical, whatever), it did not go to production.

3) If two production words are roughly equivalent, the one more likely to be used by the native was chosen for production.

4) If the are both equally likely to be used, the one I learned first was chosen.

5) If the word has no English equivalent, I put to recognition only with a Chinese definition.

Therefore, unlike the other "lists" my deck has many chinese to chinese entries, and many recognition only entries. It was constantly updated based on my encounters with Chinese.


This, hopefully, leaves the user with hopefully the the closest approximate of a native active and passive vocab, albeit very small, but hopefully preserving the active and passive status of the words in an educated native's mind.


So basically, this is it. The deck is uncategorized. Sorry for this, but the reason is that I didn't want to have a crutch, I wanted to force myself to review everything whether I wanted to or not. This deck can be improved by others, feel free to modify or categorize. If I have free time I may categorize it, perhaps into stages, since most of the cards in the beginning were Pimsleur and FSI. It would be impossible for my to categorize it further than this.

Also, there is original audio which is missing. Originally I copied all the audio from FSI and NPCR to the word deck, so each of the vocab has a corresponding clip. Unfortunately, I can't include the audio due to even the slim chance of copywrite violation (in the case of NPCR), and that audio can't be easily separated from FSI's. Unless I change my mind or someone has a bright idea, for now it will have to remain audio free. Only 3000 or so facts contained audio.

Enjoy.

Edited by irrationale on 09 June 2010 at 12:25pm

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Sprachprofi
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 Message 2 of 27
09 June 2010 at 6:04pm | IP Logged 
Thank you so much! I shall try this deck, because I miss the context / word usage
information in my HSK deck, and also because it's good to know which words are useful to
know actively.
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irrationale
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11 June 2010 at 5:16am | IP Logged 
Sprachprofi wrote:
Thank you so much! I shall try this deck, because I miss the context / word usage
information in my HSK deck, and also because it's good to know which words are useful to
know actively.


No problem :) It is just a shame that I can't include the audio at this time.

Here is the new link

http://rapidshare.com/files/397669984/mandarinmasterdeck.ank i.html

I assume that it will be downloaded more than 10 times, so I recommend that you search anki's shared decks for "Mandarin Master Deck". In anki's menu; (File -> download --> shared deck)
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11 June 2010 at 7:35am | IP Logged 
I mirrored it here:

http://cl.ly/8f9968c19463ef6ad946

It is a link with unlimited downloads
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11 June 2010 at 11:21am | IP Logged 
Thanks for the set but how do I open this wonder?
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19 November 2010 at 12:28am | IP Logged 
I hope this makes my journey much shorter. I plan to take the HSK level 5 one year from today! God help me :)
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19 November 2010 at 1:17am | IP Logged 
No offense, but I think using someone else's Anki deck would be counterproductive.
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 Message 8 of 27
19 November 2010 at 9:15am | IP Logged 
leosmith wrote:
No offense, but I think using someone else's Anki deck would be
counterproductive.

I found it very productive because it saves me the time of entering stuff, finding
example phrases or wondering if words are actually used. Normally, entering 30 items of
vocabulary takes me at least 30 minutes, more likely more, it's tedious and I haven't
found that it helps me learn at all. If I have to spend at least a minute entering each
word, there is no way I can ever hit 50 or 100 words a day; I don't have the time or the
endurance for this kind of task.

What I do is mark any words that are coming up in my textbook as PriorityHigh so that I
see those first, and I hide or delete words that I don't deem relevant. The deck is huge
so there's still lots of learn

Edited by Sprachprofi on 19 November 2010 at 9:16am



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