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| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5198 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 9 of 15 11 August 2013 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
Professor Arguelles in the video mentioned by Cabaire above uses one freely available on Professor Paul Nation's page (scroll down to find the zip file "Range program with British National Corpus list" and choose either 14,000 (Prof Arguelles used this one) or 25,000 words (newer than the Prof's video I think). Then look at the excellent instructions in the video starting at 11.45. Edited by Andrew C on 11 August 2013 at 7:49pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5383 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 10 of 15 11 August 2013 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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It might not be exactly what you are looking for, but there are books that are translated into (or translated from) Basic English (Basic English has a controlled vocabulary of 850 words. Basic English Wikipedia.
The Bible has been translated into both Basic English and Basic Spanish in the New Life Version which has only 850 words (plus names and places). New Life Bible on Amazon. There may be other similar books out there for other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4261 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 11 of 15 11 August 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't need books in English but if someone were to need them then we could add them. But I'd rather have the list void of religious texts and scriptures and more novels and such. Basic Spanish sounds intriguing though.
The thing is that with a few hundred lemmas you can have well over thousands of words in most languages such as Russian that makes a lot of use out of base forms but it works in English quite well too. An example: to create would be a base lemma and it would hold -creature -creation -creative -creativity -creatively -creator -creates, created, creating -creatable -re-create etc. Edited by Henkkles on 11 August 2013 at 1:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6605 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 12 of 15 11 August 2013 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've not read enough of Anne Frank's Diary to tell whether it fits but it seems to. I'm also going to read Christiane F in German for the Tadoku.
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4261 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 15 11 August 2013 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks a ton for digging out the thread! Sadly neither one mentioned anything in Russian as far as I saw.
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| jimbo Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6302 days ago 469 posts - 642 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 14 of 15 12 August 2013 at 6:16am | IP Logged | ||
It has been a while but I'm pretty sure I've seen someone post a script on this forum that does just that. I can't remember which thread it was in. Sorry. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lavinia Diglot Newbie Romania Joined 5112 days ago 27 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: FrenchB2, German | Message 15 of 15 26 August 2013 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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One thing that pops in my mind is Haruki Murakami's 'Kafka on the shore'. Right now i'm
reading it in German and i have to admit it's going quite smoothly. I am not that advanced in German myself, i couldn't mutter something fairly advanced and yet comprehensible for the life of me, but reading this book is really enjoyable. I believe this to be the case for '`1Q84' as well, though i've read that one in French. Even though the sheer number of pages can put someone down, words begin to feel quite familiar after some time simply because they are scattered around such a big volume. It may be a bit disheartening at first to feel that you aren't making any progress, but after a while you just give in and follow the plot. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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