Upload an EPUB, choose a target language, and get back a new version where every paragraph is followed by its translation. Learn vocabulary in context, without ever losing the author.
Example — Pride and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Het is een algemeen erkende waarheid dat een vrijgezel met een aanzienlijk fortuin behoefte heeft aan een echtgenote.
The idea
Learning a language is fun if you go about it the right way. With about 5,000 words you understand the vast majority of a normal text — and you don't learn those by drilling, but by reading stories where the same words show up in ten different contexts.
A bilingual edition makes it simple: read the original, glance at the translation when you need it. No jumps to dictionaries, no flow breaks. Your favorite book becomes your language course — and your vocabulary grows without you noticing.
For readers, by readers.
Examples
This is how each paragraph looks once our system is done — original on top, translation below, rhythm preserved.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”“Het is een algemeen erkende waarheid dat een vrijgezel met een aanzienlijk fortuin behoefte heeft aan een echtgenote.”
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”“Het was een heldere koude dag in april, en de klokken sloegen dertien.”
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”“In mijn jongere en kwetsbaardere jaren gaf mijn vader me een advies waar ik sindsdien over na heb gepiekerd.”
“Call me Ishmael.”“Noem me Ismaël.”
“He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.”“Hij was een oude man die alleen viste in een sloep op de Golfstroom, en hij had nu vierentachtig dagen lang geen vis gevangen.”
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How it works
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English, French, German, Spanish or six other languages — carefully aligned, paragraph by paragraph.
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