DeFrancis Readers Vocabulary Lists (Chinese only, Traditional)

[wibr]

Currently I am working through the DeFrancis Readers, which I can recommend to anyone who learns traditional characters. They are a little dated, but I use them to practice reading and in the end I also want to be able to read books which are even older, so I don't see that as a problem at all.

 

I paid someone to type the lists for me without pinyin or English, since I can use Pleco/CC-CEDICT/HanDeDict to add those for most of the entries. For the remaining ones I might add them manually later. Especially the patterns which I additionally put together in a single file are not found in any dictionary, which makes them difficult to look up. If anyone wants to help me translating those, please contact me :-). The ChineseReaderChars.txt contains all 1200 characters in order of appearance, mainly for sorting purposes etc..

 

Edit: I removed all duplicate words/characters, since only the English translation is different in this case

 

Edit (2016-04-10):

- All three in one file

- format is now tab separated like Pleco

- I replaced 14 rare variants used by DeFrancis with the more common ones (裏->裡)

- English meaning for all sentence patterns

- Added some missing entries

 

If you find any mistakes, please tell me so that I can correct them!

DeFrancisReaders.txt

DeFrancisReadersPleco.txt

DeFrancisReadersCharsOrder.txt

[character]

Thanks for this; I added a link to your post to the DeFrancis section of the graded readers post. If you like the readers, you might look at the shorter works also from DeFrancis.

[wibr]

Update: I merged the three list files into one and added brackets so that pleco doesn't think they are simplified characters

 

Edit: This file still contains entries with / and (). I am not sure what pleco makes of those, but maybe I will create another file with those removed. I would have to choose one of the options for each entry, though.

 

Edit2: I deleted the file since I made a mistake, if you already downloaded it please search for Lesson1 and fix formatting errors, they are obvious... I will upload a better version some time in the future.

 

Edit3: I hope this is the final version, I removed all (兒) and did some editing so that Pleco hopefully finds a match in one of the dictionaries for almost all entries.

 

Edit4: See first post for most recent version

[wibr]

Bump for significant update of the files, if you haven't imported the files into Pleco yet you should use the most recent version.

[Pegasus]

@wibr, I am hoping to work through the DeFrancis Readers eventually. Thank you very much for these lists. But I'm not sure how to use them with Pleco or how to import them.

[wibr]

Just use the DeFrancisReadersPleco.txt and import it as flashcards in Pleco, check the manual if you don't know how. Make sure you use the "Definition Source: Prefer File" option so that you get the translations of the sentence patterns, the other definitions can be from the dictionaries of your choice.

[pcnihongo]

Would anyone be interested in the Defrancis books on flash cards?

[Pegasus]

@pcnihongo I'm interested! 

[pcnihongo]

@Pegasus I am developing an app that will eventually have the Defrancis Series vocabulary in an app.

[James_Shef]

@wibr - Any objection to me integrating these lists into my Android app?

 

The app is intended for HSK learners, but it would be no great effort to introduce another set of characters for a different audience.  The app is "really simple HSK" and can be found here:

 

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.preciouschicken.reallysimplehsk

 

@pcnihongo - Good luck with your app too, I'm sure there is room for both on people's phones! 

[pcnihongo]

I am in the process of editing the vocabulary lists for Beginning Chinese and Beginning Chinese Reader.

[wibr]

@James_Shef No objection, but in the end I wouldn't be the one who has the copyright on those lists anyway

 

@pcnihongo Just curious, how will your lists be different from the ones I uploaded?

[pcnihongo]

Hello everyone, it has been a long time since I have posted. Currently, I am putting the vocabulary of "Beginning  Chinese," "Beginning Chinese Reader" into a database. I already have and iOS app for Beginning Chinese and Beginning Chinese Reader and will be adding the intermediate and advanced versions of the Defrancis series in the near future.I do have a vocabulary that has both the characters and their definitions.

 

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[bookdance]

I just started with Beginning Chinese today and would be interested in an app. What is it called?