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| Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4667 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 1 of 8 22 March 2013 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sorry if I'm posting in the wrong forum, but I just wanted to share this tool that
can count the number of unique words in a given text. click here When you're learning a language, it's often difficult to find texts that are suited to your level. I use this website to quickly judge the approximate difficulty of a book (in terms of vocabulary). Just copy and paste the text, press count and it will calculate the total, unique and repeated number of words in the text. Of course, it's not perfect, since it will count different forms of a word as different words, but it's good enough for getting an estimation. For example, at the moment I'm reading The Stranger by Albert Camus in Italian. According to this tool, it has less than 6000 unique words, making it perfect for my level. Ender's game, on the other hand, has over 15000, making it too difficult. Edited by Marski on 23 March 2013 at 12:45pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4490 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 2 of 8 22 March 2013 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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How is this unique? It's about... 1 line of code.
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| Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4667 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 8 22 March 2013 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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As in, it counts the number of unique words in a given text. Read the description.
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4490 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 4 of 8 22 March 2013 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, my fault. Even though I have read the description, the title still reads to me as if it's a unique "word count tool" rather than a "unique word" count tool. Impression furthered by the fact that you'd want to share it (and "unique" things are worth sharing indeed).
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| Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4667 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 5 of 8 22 March 2013 at 5:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I can see that the title is confusing. Too late to change it now. :)
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| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5114 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 6 of 8 22 March 2013 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Be carful when you use this website to determine the difficulty of a text with a lot of dialogues. It's seem to count every word before a '-', like when two people are having a dialogue. It all depend on your text format.
Apart form that and small others stuffs. Really nice find. Thank you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6409 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 7 of 8 23 March 2013 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4667 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 8 of 8 23 March 2013 at 12:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Huh, thanks. :)
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