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How hard is Fabulae Faciles to read?
By Francis Ritchie · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 4,461
- Sentence length
- 16.0 words
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 38 per 1,000
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Fabulae Faciles is a beginner-level read in Latin, which fits its purpose: Francis Ritchie wrote it as a first reader, retelling the myths of Perseus, Hercules, Jason and Ulysses in simplified Latin of his own to prepare students for Caesar. Sentences are of moderate length, there is almost no dialogue, and few words fall outside the commonest ones; what remains to learn is mostly the stuff of the stories, such as centaurs, anchors and sacks. Our level measures vocabulary and sentence length, not grammar, so it suits someone with a first year of Latin who wants simple narrative.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 95% of our Latin books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 4,461
- Sentence length
- 16.0 words
- One sentence in ten runs past 25 words
- Length
- Short
- 11,123 words · < 3 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 38 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 3%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 48.7% |
| 250 | 59.5% |
| 500 | 70.2% |
| 1,000 | 81.0% |
| 2,000 | 89.4% |
| 3,000 | 92.5% |
| 5,000 | 96.2% |
| 7,500 | 98.2% |
| 10,000 | 99.0% |
| 15,000 | 99.7% |
| 20,000 | 99.9% |
| 30,000 | 99.9% |
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- centaurus×12
- horribilis×11
- exanimatus×9
- ancora×7
- ueniendus×6
- abscido×5
- amoueo×5
- balteus×5
- maturo×5
- omittendus×5
- prehendo×5
- saccus×5
- accumbo×4
- baculum×4
- celatus×4
- coortus×4
- intermissus×4
- nauigandus×4
- scapha×4
- subeundus×4
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