Kanji Gold - 'Common Words' Files
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Short version
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The 'Common Words' files reduce to 1/3 the number of words shown 
when testing Grades 1 to 8.

1. Ensure Kanji Gold is not running.
2. Back up existing Kanji Gold 'Grade.0' to 'Grade.9' files.
3. Copy new files into the Kanji Gold program directory.

The files Grade9_P.jis and Grade0_P.jis may be loaded as study lists
to work just on those kanji that are used in 'common' words from those
grades.

Acknowledgements
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Kanji Gold was written by Dr. Denton Hewgill and made available as GNU 
free software from  http://web.uvic.ca/kanji-gold/

The files accompanying this README are custom dictionary / study lists
modified from the originals.  In their preparation use was made of the 
of '20,000 most common words Edict subset' 
(File edict_sub_access_v02-001.zip from the Monash Nihongo FTP Archive
http://ftp.cc.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/00INDEX.html )

Contents
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Using the Edict subset as a reference words not in the first 20,000 
have been removed from the data set.  In addition approximately 2,000
words have been added from the Edict subset.  

Usage Note
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Version 2 can only load custom dictionaries for vocab tests, not 
kanji tests.  Customising the Grade.? files is therefore the only way
to alter what words are shown as 'compound words' when working on the
main quiz.

In Version 1 custom dictionaries can be loaded both for vocab testing
and for kanji testing.  If you are using version 1 the files 'Grade.1'
to 'Grade.1' can be renamed 'Grade1.dic' etc and used in this way.
Note that if you do this you will be tested on more kanji than those 
of the grade in question as the SW tests /all/ kanji used in the words
in the list (e.g. if you load the grade 2 vocabulary as a 'dic' file
for a kanji test you will also be tested on whatever grade 1 kanji 
were used in compound words).

Roll your own
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If you want to make your own custom word lists note that the SW only 
checks for compound words within the current grade.  (If you have 
炵 [misuborashii] in the file Grade.0 it will not be listed
under the compounds for  [mi(ru), ken] while testing on Grade 1).  
Otherwise the Grade.? files are just the same as the custom dictionary 
(*.dic) files as described in the help for Kanji Gold.

Readme.txt - 2003 Oct 26