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Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios: reading level, length and free edition
Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios by Lawrence A. Wilkins is a reader for learners in Spanish. Our team rates it A2. It runs to 61,857 words with 11,961 different word forms, about 5–10 h of reading at 200 to 100 words per minute, and it is free from Project Gutenberg.
- Author
- Lawrence A. Wilkins
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- A2
- Form
- reader for learners
- Words
- 61,857
- Different word forms
- 11,961
- Forms for 95% / 98%
- 8,869 / 10,724
- Reading time
- 5–10 h
- Free edition
- Project Gutenberg
Textos breves y graduados para principiantes con ejercicios de comprensión.
Is Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios right for your level?
To recognise 95% of the running words in Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios, you need its 8,869 most frequent word forms; for 98%, the share at which most readers manage a novel without a dictionary, 10,724.
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 Lecturas fáciles con ejercicios 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.
- indicativo 98
- might 96
- lived 83
- spoken 81
- verbos 80
- eaten 75
- sinopsis 72
- live 66
- speak 65
- will 63
- city 60
- habl 56
- would 52
- simples 40
- used 38
How does it begin?
THIS book is the result of the conviction of the authors, after several years of experience teaching the Spanish language, that it is discouraging to the students of that language, as well as a contravention of all common-sense pedagogy, to place before them as reading material in the first year or year and a half …
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 61,857 | 10 h | 7 h | 5 h | 4 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 #24250. 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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