There is a new file for Jmemorise, to learn the alphabetical order.
I exchanged the files for the Pali primer vocabulary and the
vocabulary for the Elementary course with new ones. In the new ones
the masculine and neuter nouns in a are presented in their nominal
form (as ending in o and a.m). This makes it easier to remember the
gender of these words.
In the vocabularies for Warder and the New course the words were
already presented in this way.
The spreadsheet for learning the vocabulary has been modified in this
way as well.
If you have already practiced some lessons and want to keep them on
stack 5 or so, do the following:
Open your existing vocabulary. Delete all chapters you did not learn yet.
Import the new vocabulary. Delete from the imported vocabulary the
chapters you don't need.
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In the Netherland they recently made a list of 3.000 words that
children should know before they start to learn to read. This is to
prevent children from having dificulties with reading, then hating
school and then dropping out.
In kindergarten they should now learn about 10 words a day (teachers
are discouraged to be content with 3 words a day) to know sufficient
words at the age of 6. For an average newspaper it seems that one
needs a vocabulary of about 10.000 words.
All entries in all vocabularies together add up to 5.451. If you leave
out the double ones, (and triple, quadruple), there are 3.881 words to
learn. Of these, quite a bit are somehow related: Kassako = farmer.
Kassati = he ploughs. It is a lot of words to learn, but if you pick
up 10 words a day....