EasyEnglish Presentation
Martin Lloyd
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What is EasyEnglish?
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It is a principled way of producing simple
English texts
 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
 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
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Bible commentaries
 Translation helps
 Other Christian materials
Dr Raymond Brown’s Bible Guide
Crossway Bible Guides (UCCP)
To help Pastors and Mother Tongue
Translators in their work
To reach many more people with
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God’s Word
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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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Leaders EasyEnglish (LEE)
Purpose: To help Church Leaders
and Pastors with
 Personal
 Sermon
 Bible
Devotions
Preparation
Study Materials
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Leaders EasyEnglish (LEE)
Checked by:
 Theological
 Linguistic
Checkers
Checkers
34 books finished and on the internet
with 11 through Advanced
Theological Checking
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Translators EasyEnglish (TEE)
TEE is mainly designed to give
background support to Mothertongue 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:
•Theological Checkers
•Linguistic Checkers
42 books finished and on the internet
with 18 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
 Emails
website
and CDs
www.easyenglish.info
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Networking
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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
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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
• Tony Whittaker - SOON evangelistic
materials
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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
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Consistent simple English
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Checked Theology
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Free materials
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Enabling
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Mother Tongue Translators
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Church leaders
• Individual Christians
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