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Judging Difficulty of Foreign Literature | ||
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5308 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 9 of 13 26 March 2014 at 11:59am | IP Logged | |||||
In theory, this seems like a good idea, but since this is a proprietary method, it's hard to tell whether this is any better than the established readability tests, whose algorithms are well-known. @ScottScheule: AFAIK, the technical term for adapted orginal books is "graded reader." BTW, if you search archive.org for easy reader or XXX reader (replace XXX with the language) you'll find some Public Domain graded readers for popular languages. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6585 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 10 of 13 26 March 2014 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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No, graded readers are graded. They presume that you know, say, 500-1000 words, and they gradually introduce more, counting them as known after what they consider to be enough instances. Adapted literature is adapted literature, most standalone adapted books are bigger than graded readers. For example, if you really want to read a particular work, you can read an adapted version first, perhaps more than once and with vocab lists etc, and then read the real thing.
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| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5308 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 11 of 13 26 March 2014 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's not necessarily the case. According to Wikipedia:
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I don't see a contradiction. Graded readers are those where the vocab is introduced gradually, often with a set of words per volume/part. Most adapted books are not graded, they just use a consistently small set of vocabulary. Basically, there's an overlap between adapted literature and graded readers, but one is not the other.
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| Elanguest Newbie Malta elanguest.com Joined 3854 days ago 19 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* | Message 13 of 13 12 May 2014 at 10:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Sometimes the best way is just to open the book and see how much you understand or don't. :) Libraries are great
for that, since they're free and allow a lot more in the way of browsing. :) 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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