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LanguagethroughLiterature

Language through Literature

For teachers

Language through Literature is a complete language course in Russian, German, Spanish, French and Italian, from a learner’s first word to real literature. You can send your students to one story, or to the course from its first lesson.

How your students start

  1. Choose a text and copy its link. Every text below has its own link. Inside a story, Copy link to this story is in the reader’s menu and under All parts.
  2. Send it to your students. They open it in a browser, on a phone or a computer, with nothing to install. A tap on a word gives its meaning, a tap on a sentence gives its translation, and Listen reads the text aloud.
  3. They keep their own place. A text marked free opens with no account. A free account takes an address and no payment details, and keeps a student’s place and saved words on every device.

New to the language? Send them to the first lesson instead: Russian, German, Spanish, French, Italian.

Texts by level

The level is the one a text asks of its reader, with the help on the page.

Russian · 26 texts

Easy stories · A1–A2

Intermediate · B1

Real literature · B2–C2

German · 10 texts

Easy stories · A1–A2

Intermediate · B1

Real literature · B2–C2

Spanish · 8 texts

Intermediate · B1

Real literature · B2–C2

French · 8 texts

Intermediate · B1

Real literature · B2–C2

Italian · 8 texts

Intermediate · B1

Real literature · B2–C2

Teaching a group?

Write to [email protected] with the language, the level and the size of your group, and Tom will answer.

Some complete works are free without an account in the interactive reader; other books offer free openings. Free lesson samples are also available. A free account keeps your saved words and progress across devices. Free reading and membership.