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Dafnis y Cloe; Leyendas del antiguo Oriente: reading level, length and free edition
Dafnis y Cloe; Leyendas del antiguo Oriente by Juan Valera is a novel and legends in Spanish. Our team rates it B2. It runs to 77,281 words with 12,569 different word forms, about 6.5–13 h of reading at 200 to 100 words per minute, and it is free from Project Gutenberg.
- Author
- Juan Valera
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- B2
- Form
- novel and legends
- Words
- 77,281
- Different word forms
- 12,569
- Forms for 95% / 98%
- 8,705 / 11,024
- Reading time
- 6.5–13 h
- Free edition
- Project Gutenberg
Traducción del idilio pastoral griego acompañado de leyendas orientales.
Is Dafnis y Cloe; Leyendas del antiguo Oriente right for your level?
To recognise 95% of the running words in Dafnis y Cloe; Leyendas del antiguo Oriente, you need its 8,705 most frequent word forms; for 98%, the share at which most readers manage a novel without a dictionary, 11,024. The median Spanish B2 book in our table needs 7,656 forms for 95%, so by this measure the book is typical for its level: number 6 of 10, easiest first.
A word form is any spelling that appears in the text, so “walk” and “walked” count twice, and names count too. These numbers are a guide to how much vocabulary the book asks for, not a test. The level itself was set by hand by our team. Before you commit, read one page of the free edition and count the words you do not know: the one-page test takes two minutes.
Which words should you know before you start?
These are the words that Dafnis y Cloe; Leyendas del antiguo Oriente uses most often but that are not among the 2,000 most common word forms across all 36 Spanish books in our library; the number is how many times each appears. Names of people and places are left out. Learning a handful of them first makes the opening chapters easier.
- flauta 56
- ovejas 42
- guerreros 35
- bandidos 33
- cabra 32
- gruta 30
- traducción 29
- escitas 29
- arios 28
- novelas 27
- hiedra 25
- zampoña 23
- huerto 23
- griegos 22
- zurrón 22
How does it begin?
Los aficionados á libros suelen cegarse con frecuencia y prestar á muchas obras literarias un mérito que no tienen, y esperar que logren una popularidad que al cabo no alcanzan.
From the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain. If this paragraph already feels slow, try a book one level lower.
How long does it take to read?
| Words | 100 wpm | 150 wpm | 200 wpm | 250 wpm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77,281 | 13 h | 8.5 h | 6.5 h | 5 h |
Learners reading a book at their level often manage 100 to 150 words per minute, and readers in their first language 200 to 250. Where these speeds come from, and a calculator for your own: How long does it take to read a book?
Where can you read it for free?
The free edition is Project Gutenberg eBook #53330. Project Gutenberg publishes books that are in the public domain in the United States, as EPUB, Kindle and plain text, free and without an account. Copyright terms differ by country: if you live outside the United States, check that the book is out of copyright where you are before you download it.
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