Open methodology · 60 lessons
How does A1 news differ from A2 news?
We measured a fixed sample of public LinguaDrop lessons in English, French, and Lithuanian. The result is a descriptive benchmark of text length, sentence size, and vocabulary variety—not a claim that a formula can validate CEFR proficiency.
60
public lessons
3
target languages
10
lessons per language and level
A1 and A2 results
Snapshot: 2026-08-16. Each row is a mean over 10 lessons.
| Language | CEFR setting | Lessons | Words / lesson | Words / sentence | Unique-word share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | A1 | 10 | 69.5 | 8.6 | 78.7% |
| English | A2 | 10 | 77.6 | 7.8 | 76.8% |
| French | A1 | 10 | 61 | 9.1 | 79.4% |
| French | A2 | 10 | 95.6 | 10.9 | 75% |
| Lithuanian | A1 | 10 | 41.8 | 5.8 | 89.1% |
| Lithuanian | A2 | 10 | 65.6 | 7.5 | 87.8% |
What the snapshot does—and does not—show
A2 lessons are longer than A1 lessons in all three sampled languages. Sentence length does not rise uniformly: the English A2 sample has fewer words per sentence than its A1 sample. That is why we publish the rows instead of compressing them into a universal “readability score.”
Reproducible methodology
- 1
Freeze a bounded public sample
We selected the 10 most recent A1 and A2 lessons for each target language from the first 2,000 public API rows. The rule, lesson IDs, public URLs, and snapshot date are checked in.
- 2
Measure only the adapted text
The parser keeps target-language sentences and removes the interleaved source translation and vocabulary gloss lines. No user data, private corpus, or original full news article is included in the download.
- 3
Use language-aware segmentation
JavaScript’s
Intl.Segmentercounts words and sentences using the target-language locale. Unique-word share is lowercased orthographic types divided by words. - 4
Generate the page from the snapshot
A deterministic repository script calculates all six table rows and the CSV. The test suite fails if generated numbers drift from the checked-in source snapshot.
Inspect representative lessons
Every CSV row links to the complete public lesson and its publisher credit. These six links provide one example from each measured band.
As Islamophobia rises, Australia's Muslims celebrate Eid
69.5 mean words per lesson in this band
Filial de CK Hutchison en Panamá solicitará arbitraje por adquisición de puertos de Maersk
77.6 mean words per lesson in this band
Police 'missed' Noah Donohoe on CCTV filmed minutes before disappearance
61 mean words per lesson in this band
Almost 500 arrested on suspicion of starting wildfires in France this summer
95.6 mean words per lesson in this band
What Is Happening at the Border in Big Bend National Park?
41.8 mean words per lesson in this band
Ann Widdecombe Was Killed in ‘Targeted Attack,’ UK Police Say
65.6 mean words per lesson in this band
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