Read the classics one step above your level
Ten short stories a volume, rewritten sentence by sentence at A2–B2.
- Ten stories
- Footnotes and glossary
- Bilingual summary
- Exercises with key
- Free audio and Anki
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How comprehensible input works, and how to read in a language you are still learning.
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Learning through reading
Read a Lot or Read Closely? Maximising Acquisition Through Reading
Extensive reading builds fluency, intensive reading builds precision. What each one is good for, and the ratio that works in practice.
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Learning through reading
Do I Need to Learn Words? Vocabulary and Incidental Acquisition
How much of a word you acquire per encounter, how many encounters it takes, and the handful of things reading never teaches you.
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Learning through reading
How Much Do You Need to Understand? The 50/70/90/98 Question
What actually changes between 90, 95 and 98 per cent coverage, and why “I got the gist” measures your expectations rather than the text.
Why “plus one”
The name is Stephen Krashen’s i+1: you acquire a language by understanding input a little beyond your current level — not by decoding text far above it, and not by rereading what you already know. Everything in these books is designed to keep you at that plus one for as long as you keep reading. How the books are written →