- Reading
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Parallel texts, with translations for each sentence..
- Glossing Text
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Interlinear notations of the meaning of each word in a sentence
- Listening
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Listen to each sentence interleaved with its translation or the full audiobook.
Goals
Different ways to use our content depending on your goals
- Learn a new language
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Read the literal translation of each word and the "natural" translation of the sentence to learn its meaning and grammar usage.
Deduce word meanings by yourself, incorporate new concepts.
Practice writing in another language and get corrections.
Hearing the text in your native tongue while reading the target language to associate sentences and words with meanings.
- Classic books
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Read classics even if you don't know the original language.
If you read a translation you are reading a translators interpretation and not the original author.
Read the classics in the original languages
To read the Latin and Greek authors in their original, is a sublime luxury . . . I thank on my knees, him who directed my early education, for having put into my possession this rich source of delight; and I would not exchange it for anything which I could then have acquired, and have not since acquired.
Literal and natural translations
Word by word and sentence by sentence translations. Annotated texts makes possible to understand the vocabulary and usage of a foreign language.