La abeja haragana — The Lazy Bee
How long «La abeja haragana» is, and how hard
| Length in Spanish | 2032 running words · 177 sentences · about 8 printed pages |
|---|---|
| Time to read | about 18 minutes at a learner's pace, with the glosses to hand |
| Different words | 470 dictionary words, averaging 11.5 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 470 of 470 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 252 — 54%. A word met once is a word you will not learn from this text alone |
| Where it stands | 5 of 8 by length in the Spanish room |
369 of this tale's own 470 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 143 carry 80%. That is the honest answer to «can I read this yet»: hold those and the reading is close work rather than decoding.
Its chapters
The room reads «La abeja haragana» in 6 scenes. The headings are the house's own; the sentence counts are the tale's.
| Scene | In Spanish | Sentences |
|---|---|---|
| The Lazy Bee | La abeja haragana | 31 |
| The Closed Door | La puerta cerrada | 35 |
| The Snake | La culebra | 28 |
| The Spinning-Top Trial | La prueba del trompito | 36 |
| To Vanish | Desaparecer | 30 |
| The Long Night | La noche larga | 17 |
How it begins
Había una vez en una colmena una abeja que no quería trabajar.
There was once in a hive a bee who would not work.
That first sentence is the free sample, and the only one on this page. «La abeja haragana» is part of the library — the eight Spanish tales, the eight German ones and the Russian shelf, every word glossed, sentence-by-sentence English — for €5 a month or €39 a year, cancel whenever you like, one subscription for all three rooms. What the library costs. «Las medias de los flamencos» is free, entire, if you would rather read the room before you buy it, and the opening scene of «La tortuga gigante» after it.
Shorter and longer in the same room
La gama ciega — 1870 wordsEl loro pelado — 1882 words Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre — 2286 wordsLa guerra de los yacarés — 3017 words
All eight tales of Cuentos de la selva · Horacio Quiroga · the shelf, counted