Dos comidas por $1: ¿Por qué los jóvenes chinos no gastan?. – Al Contacto
Readlang rated this at C1, I read and listened to it without much difficulty. There is no way I am C1. Ai told me it was B1
I generally feel that Readlang overstates the difficulty of the articles I put into my library. What do you think?
Here it says that Readlang calculates a readability index as well as the percentage of common words (based on movie subtitles): How does Readlang know the difficulty of a text?
I could imagine that the readability of your text is rated more difficult since it contains some longer sentences. Newspaper vocabulary also differs from movie subtitles.
I had the different experience that I uploaded a Spanish text which was rated as A2 but I would say it was more of a B1/B2. The reason could have been the format, because it was a theatre play with a lot of poetry and line breaks, which might have lead to a high count of seemingly very short sentences.
On the other hand I had the story bot generate some intermediate stories for another language and they came up as A2, B1 and B2. They were quite similar in terms of difficulty of grammar and sentence length, but the B2 text definitely contained more obscure vocabulary due to its topic, so I’d say that these ratings made a lot of sense.
That is a fair response. Thank you. Also, if I know the key subject words in an article sometimes I can fly through it, but if you don’t know the key words you can’t really go anywhere. I put an article in from el Pais and couldn’t even start it and it was rated the same as the piece I posted. But perhaps you needed a understand of Spanish politics and all the players to understand it.
Also I guess it is very subtle and nuanced.