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Listen to books in the language you are learning

Drop a DRM-free book in German, Spanish, French, Japanese or any of 40+ languages, choose a native narrator and read along with the highlighted text.

Why extensive listening works

Hearing whole books in a language, not just app sentences, is how comprehension becomes automatic. The obstacle has always been audio: audiobooks exist for bestsellers, not for the graded reader or the novel your teacher recommended. Narrating the ebook you already have removes that limit.

What helps a learner specifically

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Native voices: for example 17 German, 34 Spanish, 21 Russian, 14 Portuguese narrators, plus native voices for French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic and Hebrew. The book’s language is detected and the matching voices come first.
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Read-along highlighting on the web shows the sentence (or word) being spoken, so you can connect sound to spelling.
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Slow the playback speed for a first pass and bring it back to normal for a second.
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Chapters are kept, so repeating a chapter is one tap.

Three steps

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Find a DRM-free ebook in your target language (Project Gutenberg has thousands in German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and more; the Discover tab searches them).
2.
Drop it here and pick a native narrator.
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Listen with the text open, then again without it.

Questions people ask

Can I pick a specific accent?

Where the catalogue has them, yes: Castilian and Mexican Spanish, European and Brazilian Portuguese, British, American and Australian English. Each narrator’s description says which.

Does it translate?

No. It narrates the text as written, in its language.

Which languages have native voices?

English, Spanish, Russian, German, Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Japanese, French, Polish, Italian, Hebrew and Arabic have native narrators; multilingual voices cover further languages such as Czech, Ukrainian and Turkish.
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