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Read “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi in English. Tap any word for its meaning, hear how it sounds, and save it to a memory-driven review schedule.
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DICTIONARY
TRANSLATION
apreciar, atesorar
to feel warm affection for; to hold something dear.
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The opening
How “The Adventures of Pinocchio” begins
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
“A king!” my little readers will say immediately.
No, children, you are mistaken.
Once upon a time there was a piece of wood.
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Vocabulary
Words to know before you start
The 30 words you will meet most often in “The Adventures of Pinocchio” at level B1 and above, with how many times each one appears.
- donkey
- chapter
- beg
- indeed
- hunger
- weep
- kind
- tail
- assassin
- shore
- snail
- hardly
- hang
- suffer
- sight
- tear
- fellow
- wagon
- tongue
- swallow
- tiny
- master
- deserve
- leap
- pigeon
- escape
- cap
- joy
- stick
- wonder
The meanings here are the everyday ones. In the reader, tap a word to see the sense this sentence uses.
Grammar
Grammar you will meet in “The Adventures of Pinocchio”
How much of each kind of grammar “The Adventures of Pinocchio” uses, counted in the sentences the Reader marks: per 10,000 words, compared with the other books in the library.
- -ing forms and to-infinitives
- Relative clauses
- Passive voice
- Perfect tenses
- Reported speech
- Modal verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Conditionals
Constructions to look for
- At/on/in (time) At dawn he opened his eyes just as a loud knocking sounded at the door.
- -ing clause as adverbial (Feeling tired, …) “Here it is,” said the Fairy, taking a lump from a golden sugar bowl.
- Subject relative clause with who/that/which You are the one who showed me the way and after you went, I followed.
Counted the way the Reader shows it: one card per construction in a sentence. Open the book in the Reader and tap a highlighted phrase to see the rule.
Library
What you get while you read
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Grammar in context
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About the book
Why The Adventures of Pinocchio is a great book to read in English
The wooden puppet who lies, runs away, gets swallowed by a giant fish, and slowly earns the right to become a real boy. Collodi's 1883 tale is darker and funnier than the cartoon version — and its short chapters and simple sentences make it a perfect early classic to read in English beside the Italian.
On LangOrbit you read “The Adventures of Pinocchio” with a safety net: the translation is one tap away when a sentence runs long, every word opens its meaning in context and can be saved for spaced-repetition review, and the grammar behind the trickier lines is explained right where you meet it.
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