Zegpoddle wrote:Does anyone know of similar sites that grade text samples in other languages? Knowing the grade level of a text will not tell you how close you are to the magical 98% threshold that Nation recommends, but you could try reading books at various grade levels, see how difficult they are for you, and eventually identify what your ideal grade level is in your target language.
Unix/Linux has a command "style":
DESCRIPTION
Style analyses the surface characteristics of the writing style of a
document. It prints various readability grades, length of words, sen‐
tences and paragraphs. It can further locate sentences with certain
characteristics. If no files are given, the document is read from
standard input.
Numbers are counted as words with one syllable. A sentence is a
sequence of words, that starts with a capitalised word and ends with a
full stop, double colon, question mark or exclamation mark. A single
letter followed by a dot is considered an abbreviation, so it does not
end a sentence. Various multi-letter abbreviations are recognized,
they do not end a sentence as well. A paragraph consists of two or
more new line characters.
It has options for different languages, I know it did German & English. Here is the output for some random text file I had.
readability grades:
Kincaid: 8.8
ARI: 10.5
Coleman-Liau: 10.5
Flesch Index: 66.4/100 (plain English)
Fog Index: 11.7
Lix: 41.9 = school year 7
SMOG-Grading: 10.6
sentence info:
5459 characters
1152 words, average length 4.74 characters = 1.43 syllables
60 sentences, average length 19.2 words
40% (24) short sentences (at most 14 words)
11% (7) long sentences (at least 29 words)
6 paragraphs, average length 10.0 sentences
0% (0) questions
70% (42) passive sentences
longest sent 57 wds at sent 14; shortest sent 5 wds at sent 24
word usage:
verb types:
to be (51) auxiliary (4)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 7% (80) pronouns 2% (28) prepositions 13% (146)
normalisations 3% (32)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (2) interrogative pronoun (0) article (14)
subordinating conjunction (1) conjunction (1) preposition (11)