Read Your Way to Fluency
Aquire a language through side-by-side translations of the classics to build fluency naturally. Real language, real literature, real results—one masterpiece at a time.
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Aquire a language through side-by-side translations of the classics to build fluency naturally. Real language, real literature, real results—one masterpiece at a time.
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Language isn't just vocabulary and grammar rules—it's the soul of a culture, alive with rhythm, wit, and centuries of human expression. When you learn from the great authors and poets who shaped the language, you're absorbing how native speakers actually think, feel, and create meaning.
Parallanguage is built on a natural approach to language acquisition that simulates how children learn their first language. By reading side-by-side translations that preserve the exact word order and structure of the target language, you receive comprehensible input that allows your brain to intuit grammar naturally. Instead of drilling vocabulary or memorizing conjugation tables, you simply read. As you absorb sentence after sentence in context, patterns emerge automatically. Your brain recognizes how the language works without explicit instruction, developing the same intuitive understanding that native speakers possess. This input-based approach transforms learning from tedious study into natural acquisition, building genuine fluency through immersion in meaningful texts.
The most edifying part of learning a language is meaningfully interacting with its greatest authors. By building our curriculum around the most significant writings of each language, you learn the language on its own terms, through the works that defined it. Our vision is for Parallanguage to one day host a repository of the great works of human history, each unlocking genuine fluency and a deeper, more authentic connection to the cultures that created them.
High-quality Audio and Isometric texts of the New Testament and Septuagint, Plutarch's Life of Alexander, Plato's Republic, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and Homer's Iliad.
High-quality Audio and Isometric texts of the Latin Vulgate, Book 1 of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, Cicero's Catilinarian Orations, St Augustine's Confessions, and Virgil's Aeneid.
High-quality Audio and Isometric texts of Luther's Bible Translation, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Goethe's Faust, and additional works.
Additional and supplementary works in Latin. Add Italian with Dante's Divine Comedy, Spanish with Cervantes' Don Quixote,and French with Hugo's Les Misérables.
Greek expansion to include Modern works. Core curriculum for Russian, Arabic, Chinese, and Sanskrit.
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