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Why we make it this way
Why DuoText exists, what we believe about learning a language by reading, and the stories we write to prove it.
Articles
- Learn a language with your own texts
Why a text you chose teaches more than a course, and how to read it side by side on a Kindle, a tablet, a computer or paper.
- How to read a real book in a language you are learning
When you are ready, how to choose the first one, and how to get past chapter three.
- Reading while listening: does it help you learn a language?
What the research found, how to do it at each level, and free stories with audio.
- From reading to remembering: turn the words you look up into Anki cards
Which words to keep, what a good card looks like, and how to export them.
- How to translate an EPUB for free
Every free way we know, and the catch with each.
- Graded readers: what they are and how to use them
Levels from A1 to C2, why graded reading works, where it falls short, and what we do about it.
- Comprehensible input: the idea behind DuoText
Krashen's idea, why the right book is hard to find, and the stories we write for it.