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Andrew C
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 Message 9 of 15
11 August 2013 at 12:57pm | IP Logged 
montmorency wrote:

I'll bet there are quite a few programmers here more than capable of knocking up such
code in a fairly short time.



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

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James29
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 Message 10 of 15
11 August 2013 at 1:22pm | IP Logged 
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.
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Henkkles
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 Message 11 of 15
11 August 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged 
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

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 Message 12 of 15
11 August 2013 at 8:07pm | IP Logged 
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.
related threads:
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Henkkles
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 Message 13 of 15
11 August 2013 at 11:16pm | IP Logged 
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
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 Message 14 of 15
12 August 2013 at 6:16am | IP Logged 
montmorency wrote:

I'll bet there are quite a few programmers here more than capable of knocking up such
code in a fairly short time.



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.
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Lavinia
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 Message 15 of 15
26 August 2013 at 7:41pm | IP Logged 
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.


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