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
How to Read in a Foreign Language Without Knowing Every Word
Tolerating the unknown is a skill, not a character trait. How to read past the words you do not know, and when to stop and look one up.
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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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Building your own path
How to Choose the Right Texts for Comprehensible Input
The ninety-eight per cent rule, the five-finger test, and what to do when the only books at your level are written for children.
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 →