Saturday, June 18, 2016

5000 Dutch Sentences Sorted from Easiest to Hardest

Here's how this list was made: 1) I grabbed a list with the 4000 most frequently used Dutch words -- sorted from the most frequently used, to the least. 2) I grabbed 15 000 translated Dutch sentences from the internet 3) I wrote a program that assigns a Frequency Rank Number to each word from every sentence, this Frequency Rank Number based on the list mentioned on item "1)" 4) This program calculates the average value of the all the words' Frequency Rank Numbers. And assigns this value to the sentence. The result is that if a sentence contains advanced words, the sentence will have a high Average Frequency Rank Number. If a sentence contains only beginner words, the AFRN will be low. 5) Finally, I sorted the sentences: from the ones with the lowest AFRN, to the highest. The end result is that this list begins with very, very simple sentences, and new words get slowly introduced as you progress.




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These sentences can be studied on the learning software Anki: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2146619778 For free, of course. If you do not have Anki, you can download it here: https://apps.ankiweb.net/

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