How it works
Pick a book.
Choose a language and a level. That sets where the mix starts; the slider adjusts it. No account needed to begin.
One word at a time.
A word crosses over everywhere it appears, so you keep meeting it in the story. Tap any word to see it in the other language.
The mix moves with you.
The words you already know cross over first. After a few chapters it suggests a little more. Once a week, one line: how far your mix has moved.
It’s reading, not drills. No streaks, no guilt.
The great books, read in the language they were written in.
Each book starts in English and ends in the original. The first chapter of every book is free.
Don Quijote
Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
A man reads so many romances that he rides out to live one.
Original: Spanish
Lazarillo de Tormes
Anonymous, 1554
A boy’s life told by himself, master by master. The first picaresque.
Original: Spanish
La vida es sueño
Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1635
A prince raised in a tower is set free for a day, and wonders if he dreamt it.
Original: Spanish
Romancero gitano
Federico García Lorca, 1928
Ballads of Andalusia: moonlight, horses, knives and green.
Original: Spanish
Bodas de sangre
Federico García Lorca, 1933
A wedding in the dry country, and an old love that will not stay buried.
Original: Spanish
Rimas y leyendas
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, 1871
Short poems of love and absence, and ghost stories to read at night.
Original: Spanish
La Regenta
Leopoldo Alas, Clarín, 1885
A bored provincial city watches one woman, and so do we.
Original: Spanish
Misericordia
Benito Pérez Galdós, 1897
A servant begs in secret to keep her ruined mistress fed.
Original: Spanish
Niebla
Miguel de Unamuno, 1914
A character goes to argue with his author. A novel that knows it is one.
Original: Spanish
Campos de Castilla
Antonio Machado, 1912
Poems of the Castilian plain, plain words and long views.
Original: Spanish
Novelas ejemplares
Miguel de Cervantes, 1613
Twelve short novels: thieves, gypsies, a talking dog.
Original: Spanish
Los pazos de Ulloa
Emilia Pardo Bazán, 1886
A young priest arrives at a crumbling Galician manor.
Original: Spanish
Marianela
Benito Pérez Galdós, 1878
A plain girl guides a blind young man, who may soon see.
Original: Spanish
San Manuel Bueno, mártir
Miguel de Unamuno, 1931
A village priest who keeps his own doubt from everyone.
Original: Spanish
La barraca
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, 1898
A family farms land the whole valley has sworn to leave empty.
Original: Spanish
Sonata de otoño
Ramón del Valle-Inclán, 1902
An ageing seducer remembers, in the most musical prose in Spanish.
Original: Spanish
Coplas por la muerte de su padre
Jorge Manrique, 1476
Forty stanzas on time and loss that Spanish still knows by heart.
Original: Spanish
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