[Mnemosyne] Revised set of 1kyu Vocabulary cards

[jpatokal]

Greetings,

I've found Mnemosyne's 1kyu Vocabulary cards incredibly useful, but unfortunately, the list seems to have been compiled automatically from WWWJDIC and contains numerous mistakes. Over the past half year, I've corrected all that I spotted, so here's a revised version:

http://jpatokal.iki.fi/tmp/1kyu%20Vocabulary%20List%20Revised.xml

Some examples of the changes:
- If a word has two common readings, the original list lists it twice, with eg. 歪む showing up in one card as ひずむ and in another as ゆがむ. These have been merged, so 歪む now appears once as ひずむ、ゆがむ.
- Some words with multiple readings only showed one reading, eg. 角 is listed only as つの "horn".　 Important additional readings like かく "angle" and かど "corner" have been added to these.
- The original list occasionally gave very unpopular readings for common kanji. For example, 人気 was given as ひとげ, when the normal reading is にんき.
- For words with multiple meanings, the English gloss often selected the least used one. For example, 婿 むこ was given as "son-in-law", when it more commonly means "husband" or "groom", and 努めて つとめて was glossed "make an effort!", when it should be "as much as possible".

Give it a spin and let me know what you think; I'll be submitting it to the Mnemosyne Project to replace the current file.

[JanneM]

Thanks!

I've been using the level 2 and the level 3-4 cards lately; I figured I should rehearse that vocabulary first and discovered I'm actually pretty shaky on a lot of it :-/ I plan to start on the level 1 cards soon though, and your revised edition should really help. The 2-4 level cards have the same problems as the level 1 cards do, by the way, but they're still incredibly useful.

Edit: I took a look, and ひとけ is probably correct for level 1. The にんき reading is in the earlier level cards already, so ひとけ is likely in level 1 as a second, rarer reading. 角 as かど and すみ are already covered in level 3-4 and level 2 cards respectively as well. You might want to check this before you inadvertently remove readings that really should be there, or add readings that are already covered in earlier levels.

[NeWbY]

おつかれ！
I kinda know it's difficult to choose the proper reading for some kanjis :P
But good job on the editing ^_^, might use it next year

[jpatokal]

[NeWbY]

Here:
guide_to_passing_jlpt_lvl_1.pdf - 1.8 Mb

[jpatokal]

[jpatokal]

I've uploaded a revised-revised version of the vocab, including a new file with 100+ JLPT Level 1 grammar structures, to the Mnemosyne site:

JLPT Level 1 Vocabulary and Grammar

Enjoy!

[Snaggs]