Read a novel in English, and let more and more of it turn Spanish. Click anything blue.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 1.A Scandal in Bohemiaoriginal only · 8.6k words
- 2.The Red-Headed Leagueoriginal only · 9.3k words
- 3.A Case of Identityoriginal only · 7k words
- 4.The Boscombe Valley Mysteryoriginal only · 9.7k words
- 5.The Five Orange Pipsoriginal only · 7.4k words
- 6.The Man with the Twisted Liporiginal only · 9.3k words
- 7.The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncleoriginal only · 7.9k words
- 8.The Adventure of the Speckled Bandoriginal only · 9.9k words
- 9.The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumboriginal only · 8.4k words
- 10.The Adventure of the Noble Bachelororiginal only · 8.2k words
- 11.The Adventure of the Beryl Coronetoriginal only · 9.8k words
- 12.The Adventure of the Copper Beechesoriginal only · 10.1k words
The levels
Pick one to start reading at it. Sign in with your platform account and the reader keeps your level, your place in the book, and what you have shown you know.
- 1First words
The few hundred most common and most transparent words: articles, pronouns, numbers, family, colours, everyday nouns, cognates. One word at a time, never a whole phrase. - 2Everyday words
The next thousand words and short fixed phrases: an adjective with its noun, greetings, time expressions, 'of course', 'at once'. - 3Phrases
Prepositional and verb phrases in the present tense, connectors, common expressions. The reader starts meeting Spanish word order. - 4Clauses
Whole clauses: the past tenses, object pronouns, subordinate clauses with 'que', negation and questions. - 5Sentences
Whole sentences and lines of dialogue, with the subjunctive, idioms and the register of the period. - 6Immersion
Whole paragraphs. The book in Spanish, with the English one click away.
How it works
The book stays English. At each level some of it is shown in Spanish: single common words at first, then phrases, clauses, whole sentences, and at the top the whole book. The Spanish is marked with a dotted line; the English is one click away.
It learns what you know. Showing the English for something tells the reader you did not know it yet, and it will come back. Saying you knew it makes room for something new. A dashed line marks a stretch: one step past your level, in familiar company. This needs an account: sign in, and it is yours on every device.
Translations were made once, by a language model, for the whole book. Nothing is translated while you read, and nothing you do is sent anywhere but this site.