The 2012 version of the Long Island Chinese Language Course textbook file has been posted to the Mandarin Course from Long Island page. Also, instructions have been added regarding how to download the PDF and MP3 files onto an iPad using GoodReader for iPad.
A brother has produced a PDF file with German versions of the Frequently Used Words lists, sorted by number (rank), pinyin, and German. His lists contain the 300 most frequently used words in some recent Chinese publications.
The file can be downloaded from this web page:
Here is a quote from that page:
Eine Vokabelliste mit den 300 häufigsten chinesischen Worten.
Die Liste orientiert sich an dem Vorbild in englisch: Frequent Words. Danke an alle Helfer in den Staaten.
A password is no longer required to access the files from the Frequently Used Words page. This change will gradually be made to other resources as well on a case-by-case basis.
Also, PDF Link Navigation and PDF Annotation (Commenting) has been added to the files, so they have had “LN-A” added to their filenames.
Related links:
The 2006-10 versions of the Frequently Used Words files have been posted to the Frequently Used Words page. Here is a note from the author about the new files:
I have corrected all the typos in the word list that I found, mostly very minor changes. These are done to the colums Pinyin and English only. Some of them are important, too, such as the tone corrections. A couple of them were totally wrong.
Earlier version included tone marks partly Taiwan style and partly the Mainland style. Considering that this list is mostly used among students outside Taiwan, I decided to try and make the tones consistently now according to the mainland tonal system (this is a little pity since in Taiwan the last syllable is not usually changed into a light tone which makes the speech more understandable). Additionally the tone exceptions of the characters "bu (not)" and "yi (one)" are now indicated consistently.
In the English colum the verb definitions with "to" are consistently in the front now.
I was told the third tones are not clear in some combinations, so space is added in some of these cases in the Pinyin colum.
These are the lines with changes in case anyone wants to go through them:
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22
44
45
61
83
93
94
96
100
115
119
123
127
133
163
165
173
177
185
222
228
243
280
301
303
310
338
342
385
411
446
473
524
548
601
627
738
786
851
854
857
864
870
906
922
934
966
982
1005
1033
1051
1054
1087
1123
1160
1179
A web page has been set up for the Frequently Used Words files I received from someone who wishes to remain anonymous. Many thanks to that person, though, since, as it says in the introductions to those files, by learning the first 100 words you are helped to understand over about 41% of recent publications, and by learning the first 200 words, over about 50%.