Preparing the Easy Book on the EU
The "Easy Book on the EU" is one of the planned outputs of the Have Your Say project. It will be a teaching aid with information on the European Union, its aims and inner workings, written in accessible style (i.e. usable for people with less than optimal command of the language), in all languages of the countries participating in the project.
Read more: The Easy Book on the EU – what is it going to be?
Books and brochures on the EU in easily accessible language – a brief review of publications found
One aim of the HYS project is to create a teaching aid on the EU that is easy-enough-to-read for people with limited command of the language (approximately level A2-B1). Here is a collection of already existing similar products which we use as a point to start.
This is a (growing) collection of books, brochures and websites presenting the idea, history, and inner workings of the European Union as an assembly of nation states who that way try to homogenize their policies and legislation. Materials collected here are meant for the "normal" or "academic" reader; they are not meant for the reader in need of explicitly simple forms of expression.
Read more: Resources on how the EU actually works (in normal language)
Here we collect ressources on the topic of accessible writing in variuos languages used in Europe.By "accessible writing" we mean forms of expression with reduced complexity, created especially for people with lower-than-full command of the language, especially in terms of reading.
Read more: Resources on accessible language in various countries
Here you find a list of rules to follow for producing texts in the Easy-to-read variety of expression in English.
Read more: Easy-to-read in the UK: a set of rules to write extremely simply
Below we list "Eleven Rules for Simple language" as published by Domingo de Oliveira, an accessibility consultant based in Bonn, Germany. He published this as a short practical guideline for the concept of Einfache Sprache [Simple Language], a form of expression approximately equivalent to language levels A2-B1.
Read more: Eleven rules for simple language (Einfache Sprache) - German