El paso del Yabebirí — The Ford of the Yabebirí
How long «El paso del Yabebirí» is, and how hard
| Length in Spanish | 3348 running words · 245 sentences · about 13 printed pages |
|---|---|
| Time to read | about 30 minutes at a learner's pace, with the glosses to hand |
| Different words | 547 dictionary words, averaging 13.7 words a sentence |
| Words glossed | 547 of 547 — every one that appears in the tale |
| Words that appear once | 258 — 47%. A word met once is a word you will not learn from this text alone |
| Where it stands | 8 of 8 by length in the Spanish room |
380 of this tale's own 547 words, most frequent first, carry 95% of it; 131 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 paso del Yabebirí» in 6 scenes. The headings are the house's own; the sentence counts are the tale's.
| Scene | In Spanish | Sentences |
|---|---|---|
| The Man and the Rays | El hombre y las rayas | 33 |
| The Tiger | El tigre | 45 |
| The Tigress | La tigra | 50 |
| The Letter | La carta | 37 |
| The Battle | La batalla | 55 |
| The Capybara | El carpincho | 25 |
How it begins
En el río Yabebirí, que está en Misiones, hay muchísimas rayas, porque «Yabebirí» quiere decir precisamente «Río-de-las-rayas».
In the river Yabebirí, which is in Misiones, there are a great many stingrays, because “Yabebirí” means precisely “River-of-the-rays”.
That first sentence is the free sample, and the only one on this page. «El paso del Yabebirí» 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
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