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| LittleKey Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5954 days ago 146 posts - 153 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Japanese | Message 1 of 9 24 February 2009 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Some very bright people put together this website (simple.wikipedia.org), which is basically Wikipedia, but all of the articles are written in simpler language. Meaning it uses simpler words and shorter sentences, but still with quality information. As it says on the main page, one of the reasons they made it is to help people that are learning English. I think this is a good way to practice any of the languages they support (and it's quite a list). I tried out the Spanish version and it was nice, because I felt I could really read the article and understand it. So yeah, this seems like a good website to practice reading. Edited by LittleKey on 24 February 2009 at 4:22am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6153 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2 of 9 24 February 2009 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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This is a good tip for English learners. You may be happy to hear that the Spanish link you clicked on, is probably the normal Spanish wikipedia, and not a simplified version. Edited by DaraghM on 24 February 2009 at 11:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dark_Sunshine Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5767 days ago 340 posts - 357 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 3 of 9 24 February 2009 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe someone should start a special "Accurate Wikipedia"... :-/
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| LittleKey Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5954 days ago 146 posts - 153 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Japanese | Message 4 of 9 26 February 2009 at 3:06am | IP Logged | ||
Oh wow, I checked it out, and you're right, that was the normal Spanish wikipedia! thanks for the observation, that was a nice boost to my self-esteem =)! So now I've realized that simple wikipedia is English-only. Well it's still a valuable resource, for those learning English. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| josephstevens Newbie United States nulengua.com Joined 5746 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 9 04 March 2009 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is very interesting - I suppose the simpler it is the easier it is to translate into other languages automatically w/o errors for them as well.
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| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6474 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 6 of 9 06 March 2009 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Not really. It's quite easy to write advanced sentences (using big words typically learned by native speakers in college) that are easy to automatically translate, and simple sentences (using extremely simple and common words) that are very hard to automatically translate.
Also, using Simple English sometimes requires you to use circumlocutions that are often easily understood but can be difficult to translate idiomatically. - Kef Edited by furrykef on 06 March 2009 at 6:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maucca Diglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4653 days ago 33 posts - 64 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: French | Message 7 of 9 18 July 2013 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just found these today, the French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Russian versions of the simple wikipedia:
http://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/ http://grundschulwiki.zum.de/ http://es.vikidia.org/wiki/ http://it.vikidia.org/wiki/ http://wikikids.wiki.kennisnet.nl/ http://ru.vikidia.org/wiki/ EDIT: fixed the link to the French vikidia. Edited by maucca on 19 July 2013 at 7:57am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4523 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 8 of 9 18 July 2013 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
the French one should also be on vikidia, not on wikipedia 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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