El loro pelado — The Plucked Parrot
How long «El loro pelado» is, and how hard
| Length in Spanish | 1882 running words · 149 sentences · about 8 printed pages |
|---|---|
| Time to read | about 17 minutes at a learner's pace, with the glosses to hand |
| Different words | 419 dictionary words, averaging 12.6 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 419 of 419 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 220 — 53%. A word met once is a word you will not learn from this text alone |
| Where it stands | 4 of 8 by length in the Spanish room |
325 of this tale's own 419 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 126 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 «El loro pelado» in 5 scenes. The headings are the house's own; the sentence counts are the tale's.
| Scene | In Spanish | Sentences |
|---|---|---|
| Pedrito | Pedrito | 22 |
| The Tiger | El tigre | 44 |
| The Hollow Tree | El hueco del árbol | 28 |
| The Return | La vuelta | 32 |
| Rich Potato | Rica, papa | 23 |
How it begins
Había una vez una bandada de loros que vivían en el monte.
There was once a flock of parrots that lived in the forest.
That first sentence is the free sample, and the only one on this page. «El loro pelado» 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 tortuga gigante — 1710 wordsLa gama ciega — 1870 words La abeja haragana — 2032 wordsHistoria de dos cachorros de coatí y de dos cachorros de hombre — 2286 words
All eight tales of Cuentos de la selva · Horacio Quiroga · the shelf, counted