So, anybody have any particular favorite custom lists out there? Daily life ones from Shanghai/China generally?
I'd love to study words that I see every day or for particular times (e.g. airport words, KFC's Chinese menu, major streets/subway stops, HSK registration form words) as pre-Skrittering them, seeing them when I go to do an activity and then writing about them diary-style for my tutor to mark means I'll know them cold and it's always interesting to make connections. e.g. 中专 is airport connection and the word 转 means to turn around - this makes one more Chinese connection in my head; I think there are many more connections like that just waiting to be made.
Also, is anybody entering the textbooks Chuji Hanyu Kouyu / 初级汉语口语 book 1 published by Peiking University (www.pup.cn) or Chuji Hanyu Tingli / 初级汉语听力 book 2 published by BCLU? I don't want to enter the character lists if someone already has (or is doing so). Both books are used at East China Normal University.