The Spanish reading room
Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre — The Story of Two Coati Cubs and Two Human Children
How long «Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre» is, and how hard
| Length in Spanish | 2,286 running words · 141 sentences · about 9 printed pages |
|---|---|
| Time to read | about 21 minutes at a learner's pace, with the glosses to hand |
| Different words | 504 dictionary words, averaging 16.2 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 504 of 504 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 253 — 50%. A word met once is a word you will not learn from this text alone |
| Where it stands | 6 of 8 by length in the Spanish room |
390 of this tale's own 504 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 156 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 «Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre» in 5 scenes. The headings are the house's own; the sentence counts are the tale's.
| Scene | In Spanish | Sentences |
|---|---|---|
| The Mother’s Lesson | La lección de la madre | 24 |
| The Trap | La trampa | 23 |
| The Cage | La jaula | 31 |
| Seventeen | Diez y siete | 38 |
| The Snake | La víbora | 25 |
How it begins
Había una vez una coatí que tenía tres hijos.
There was once a coati who had three children.
That first sentence is the free sample, and the only one on this page. «Historia de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre» is part of the library — the eight Spanish tales, the German, French and Italian 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 five 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
El loro pelado — 1,882 wordsLa abeja haragana — 2,032 words La guerra de los yacarés — 3,017 wordsEl paso del Yabebirí — 3,348 words
All eight tales of Cuentos de la selva · Horacio Quiroga · the shelf, counted