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Le avventure di Pinocchio: reading level, length and free edition
Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi is a children’s novel in Italian. Our team rates it B1. It runs to 41,398 words with 5,998 different word forms, about 3.5–7 h of reading at 200 to 100 words per minute, and it is free from Project Gutenberg.
- Author
- Carlo Collodi
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- B1
- Form
- children’s novel
- Words
- 41,398
- Different word forms
- 5,998
- Forms for 95% / 98%
- 3,929 / 5,171
- Reading time
- 3.5–7 h
- Free edition
- Project Gutenberg
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Is Le avventure di Pinocchio right for your level?
To recognise 95% of the running words in Le avventure di Pinocchio, you need its 3,929 most frequent word forms; for 98%, the share at which most readers manage a novel without a dictionary, 5,171.
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 Le avventure di Pinocchio uses most often but that are not among the 2,000 most common word forms across all 20 Italian 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.
- ciuchino 44
- monete 38
- assassini 28
- replicò 26
- studiare 22
- berretto 22
- burattinaio 21
- vocina 20
- parlante 20
- burattini 19
- omino 17
- pesci 17
- accòrse 16
- soldi 16
- zecchini 16
How does it begin?
Non era un legno di lusso, ma un semplice pezzo da catasta, di quelli che d’inverno si mettono nelle stufe e nei caminetti per accendere il fuoco e per riscaldare le stanze.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41,398 | 7 h | 4.5 h | 3.5 h | 3 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 #52484. 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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What to read next at B1
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