Phrases with most popular characters?

Question

I found a table of characters (about 3000) in which most popular characters go first. Here are first 20:

我的 高的 是的 目的 的确 不    不是 人    在   有   他   这 中 大   来 上 国 自个    到   说 道 子 为 和

and I would like to learn them is this sort/order but I know that it's better to learn a language by phrase examples not just by lonely words.

So my question is: are there sources for phrase sets in which list of phrases itself sorted by frequency of usage of the characters used? Thank you.

Answer 1

The simple answer is: yes.

For a language learning aspect, this way(remembering words) may be boring and result in giving up unless you learn for an important test/exam. If find this boring, try a textbook or an app that let you learn it like a first language.

Update: The links below contains lists for frequently used Chinese word.

The official Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese(2500+1000), this is published in 1988 and discontinued in 2013, since it has only 2500 characters, it may be still useful(covers 99.48% characters in daily use): http://hanyu.iciba.com/zt/3500.html

The official General Standard Chinese Characters(8105): http://xh.5156edu.com/page/z6211m4474j19255.html

The official Commonly Used Hanja(1800), selected by South Korea: http://wenku.baidu.com/view/e1e306649b6648d7c1c74636

The commonly used characters list for elementary school grade 1-6 students, selected by New Oriental, the largest education group in China:

from grade 1 to 6

http://xiaoxue.xdf.cn/ynj/201203/1159876.html

http://xiaoxue.xdf.cn/enj/201203/1159917.html

http://xiaoxue.xdf.cn/snj/201203/1159916.html

http://xiaoxue.xdf.cn/inj/201203/1159915.html

http://xiaoxue.xdf.cn/wnj/201203/1159914.html

http://xiaoxue.xdf.cn/lnj/201203/1159913.html

Answer 2

I needed the same thing, so I sorted the sample sentences on Tatoeba.org and posted some on my Google code site.

These sentences are from Tatoeba.org, and they are arranged with the most common characters first. As your vocabulary increases, you should be able to read farther down the list. Hover over the gray box to see the English translation of each Chinese sentence. Some Chinese sentences have a "Speak" link next to them that will play a recording of the sentence. The source code is available at donkirkby.googlecode.com.

If you want to remember your place, click on one of the "Link here" links and bookmark the page. Those links will also tell you the rank of the rarest character in that sentence.

A related project is my set of Mnemosyne flash cards for the 500 most common characters and words.