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What is EasyEnglish?
It has a reduced lexicon and reduced grammar - but is perfectly good standard English
It is designed for people who have some, but not a great deal of English
It is a principled way of producing simple English texts
for whom English is their second or third language
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Grammar
• No passives
• No rhetorical questions
• Verbs rather than abstract nouns
• Two clauses per sentence
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Production materials
EE is produced using:
EasyEnglish Lexicon
EasyEnglish Grammatical manual
EasyEnglish Checking Software
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Purpose WA (UK) is interested in producing
To help Pastors and Mother Tongue Translators in their workTo reach many more people with
God’s Word
Bible commentaries Translation helps Other Christian materials
Dr Raymond Brown’s Bible GuideCrossway Bible Guides (UCCP)
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Customers
We write at three levels for different audiences
(LEE) Leaders EasyEnglish - with 2800 word lexicon - level B
(TEE) Mother-tongue Translators - with 1200 word Lexicon - Level A
(AEE) Accessible EasyEnglish - for people who have Learning Disabilities
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Purpose: To help Church Leaders and Pastors with
Personal Devotions
Sermon Preparation
Bible Study Materials
Leaders EasyEnglish (LEE)
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Leaders EasyEnglish (LEE)
Checked by:
Theological Checkers
Linguistic Checkers
29 books finished and on the internet
with 8 through Advanced Theological Checking
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Translators EasyEnglish (TEE)
TEE is mainly designed to give background support to Mother-tongue
Translators. But it also gives easy to read materials suitable for:
• encouraging and training Christians
• evangelism and follow-up
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Translators EasyEnglish (TEE)
Checked by:
39 books finished and on the internet
•Theological Checkers
•Linguistic Checkers
with 14 through Advanced Exegetical
Checking
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Accessible EasyEnglish (AEE)
Written for and field-tested with people having learning disabilities.
Many organisations also use AEE for immigrants from non-Anglophone countries, who are starting to learn English.
5 collections on the web - 10 on CDs
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Publicity and Distribution
We gladly supply our materials free of charge for others to illustrate, culturally adapt, print out and use by:
Internet website
Emails and CDs
www.easyenglish.info
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Networking
• AIM - Jan King- Kenya
• CMS - Crowther Hall - UK
• WBT - Lynn Wood - PNG
• IEM - Director - India
• SOON - Tony Whittaker - UK
• SIM - Jim Mason - Canada
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Other people writing EE
• Director Translations, B Socy of India
• David Angango - TWR, Kenya• June Whittaker - WEC, Ghana• Caroline Seed - CMS, Nigeria• Rev John Hibberd - evangelistic
materials for Kenya• Moorlands College, UK
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SIL/WBT
• Key Terms for Biblical Hebrew - EasyEnglish have been asked to join this important SIL team - led by Richard Hoyle
• Luke study questions - Katy Barnwell• More than 50 SIL members have
requested EE CDs
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SIL/WBT and WA UK
Service & fellowship :• we have one expertise - EE • you have many
Vision 2025 - ‘…together with others’
We delight to be one of these ‘others’
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Feedback
•China ..."...these appear to be at exactly the right level for some
of the congregation here. I would also appreciate your
permission to get these translated into Chinese...."
•Croatia ...I have produced 15 copies of James and given them to
members of our church who know English. They loved it
and would like other books."
•Ghana ..."I found your version of Esther extremely useful recently."
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Key features
• Checked Theology
• Consistent simple English
• Free materials