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Ricordi d’infanzia e di scuola: reading level, length and free edition
Ricordi d’infanzia e di scuola by Edmondo De Amicis is a memoir in Italian. Our team rates it B2. It runs to 96,751 words with 15,044 different word forms, about 8–16 h of reading at 200 to 100 words per minute, and it is free from Project Gutenberg.
- Author
- Edmondo De Amicis
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- B2
- Form
- memoir
- Words
- 96,751
- Different word forms
- 15,044
- Forms for 95% / 98%
- 10,207 / 13,109
- Reading time
- 8–16 h
- Free edition
- Project Gutenberg
Evocazioni autobiografiche dell’autore di “Cuore” tra famiglia, banchi e amicizie.
Is Ricordi d’infanzia e di scuola right for your level?
To recognise 95% of the running words in Ricordi d’infanzia e di scuola, you need its 10,207 most frequent word forms; for 98%, the share at which most readers manage a novel without a dictionary, 13,109. The median Italian B2 book in our table needs 5,871 forms for 95%, so by this measure the book is harder than most for its level: number 11 of 11, 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 Ricordi d’infanzia e di scuola 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.
- bersaglieri 31
- edizione 31
- direttrice 28
- bambole 27
- ragazza 27
- visi 26
- classe 25
- colori 24
- frase 24
- ammirazione 24
- immaginazione 23
- bimba 23
- scuole 22
- bimbo 22
- lettura 21
How does it begin?
I diritti di riproduzione e di traduzione sono riservati per tutti i paesi, compresi la Svezia, la Norvegia e l’Olanda.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96,751 | 16 h | 11 h | 8 h | 6.5 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 #61885. 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.
To read it with a translation over every word you tap, open it in Readlang Mobile on iPhone or iPad.
What to read next at B2
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- L’Innocente, Gabriele D’Annunzio: 77,999 words, 7,329 forms for 95%
- Documenti Umani, Federico De Roberto: 58,657 words, 7,314 forms for 95%
- La favorita del Mahdi, Emilio Salgari: 113,371 words, 7,184 forms for 95%
- I Robinson italiani, Emilio Salgari: 67,116 words, 6,377 forms for 95%
- Dopo il divorzio, Grazia Deledda: 56,909 words, 5,871 forms for 95%
- Il mistero del poeta, Antonio Fogazzaro: 60,698 words, 5,718 forms for 95%
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