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What Is Interlinear Text Interlinear text in foreign language learning varies from a text in a foreign language with the complete translation of that line below it, to having a word for word translation below every word. The advantage of having a complete translation of every line is that you understand the story. However you may not learn the meaning of every word, as foreign language idiom is replaced by idiom in your own language, and often individual words are translated differently. Word for word interlinear translation, or a translation with interlinear gloss, is a foreign language text where every...

Learn Hungarian with Fairy Tales Hungarian culture mixed with Austrian and German literature to produce these interesting, funny and easy to begin with Hungarian stories for beginners and advanced readers. The interlinear word for word translation makes expanding your vocabulary fast and easy, because you don't need to stop reading to look up words, they're right there, unobtrusively hidden under the original Hungarian. Now the HypLern eBooks we had are available as paperbacks as well on Amazon! Learn Hungarian with Fairy Tales will help you on your way fast to read Hungarian literature. Check out our HypLern Hungarian Reader App as well for Windows,...

Learn German with Fairy Tales Interlinear word for word translations let you read German immersively without look up time. We created a post a while back listing the few interlinear translations available online. Now the HypLern eBooks we had are available as paperbacks as well on Amazon! The book Learn German with Fairy Tales offers the ultimate stories from German culture in word for word translated format enabling you to read them and understand all the words, this way expanding your vocabulary fast, helping you on your way to read German literature. Learn German with Short Stories One of the...

Learn French with Intermediate Stories This book contains short stories by Guy de Maupassant and Honoré de Balzac. Walter Schnaffs is a fun story about the 1870 Franco-Prussian war in which a jolly fat German soldier whose only thought is about his blonde German wife and four kids, and about good food, has to join in the invasion of France. Losing his comrades after an ambush, he finds his own way around the French countryside, led mainly by hunger.   Learn French with 'Masked Love' by Balzac The next interlinear French to English book that we published in paperback format is...

Learning a language is often a painful process. Most people get to the point where they learn some basic phrases and words, and then stop trying. This 10-30 Word for Word method tries to get people to learn all of the language, in a relatively easy way. Learning a whole language is only possible through reading, conversational skills get you only so far. If you have experience reading a foreign language, you'll know how the foreign words start to buzz around in your head already after some regular reading. You're absorbing the language as you read. Adding audio to the...

We are publishing our e-books in paperback format! Starting off with "Learn French with Romantic Stories", containing five short stories with surprising, funny or dramatic romance stories for you to learn French with. Find them here on Amazon, if you still would like the e-book version, the link to the Kindle edition is on that page as well. The HypLern books have an interlinear translation to literal English, and an idiomatic explanation where necessary. This way you never need to look up any words and stay immersed in the story.

Looking for Testers for French for Beginners! If you want to learn French, and you would like to give our HypLern software a try, please use the contact button to send us a mail and request a Google Playstore download code for a free version of French Beginners. We'll send you the code and an additional form where you can write down your experiences with the free software. It's just keywords and good or bad experiences, not a lot of work. In exchange for filling out the form you'll get access to the HypLern French Beginner Reader App from the...

In the last Blog we mentioned some advantages of learning a foreign language while reading with interlinear and pop-up translation. I want to expand on these here. As we're being flooded with standard text-wordlist-and-grammar-bit language courses or fancy online sentence-fill-in-the-missing word language lessons, not many people realize there's a faster way. A Classic Way. To start with, this way of learning has been around for thousands of years. Only when our society started to industrialize and needed adults in their factories separated from children (if they were fortunate enough to not have to work as well), and lock kids away...

Support us Here at Patreon! Invest one Dollar in a new project, and get the finished interlinear e-book or any of our existing works as soon as the new e-book is released!   Support Our New Projects We're currently working on Polish and Portuguese Short Stories. If you support us with only one dollar, you'll receive the new e-book, or any other e-book from our store that you choose as a reward. If you don't mind diy installing of software, this goes for the App version as well.   The Advantages of Interlinear or Pop-up Reading Learn a foreign language just by reading! Read a...

Now Available! The HypLern Italian Reader for Android or Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, a terribly long process as you may have noticed, and our eight product available is the HypLern Italian Reader for Android or Windows, look for it in our Italian collection of products! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions there for a less interactive format :) Here are some pictures showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up:   In the "My Words" section, word cards are directly linked to...

Now Available! The HypLern Spanish Reader for Android or Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, a terribly long process as you may have noticed, and our seventh product available is the HypLern Spanish Reader for Android or Windows, look for it in our Spanish collection of products! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions there for a less interactive format :) Here are some pictures showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up:   In the "My Words" section, word cards are directly linked to their...

Now Available! The HypLern Dutch Reader for Android or Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, a terribly long process as you may have noticed, and our sixth product available is the HypLern Dutch Reader for Android or Windows, look for it in our Dutch collection of products! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions there for a less interactive format :) Here are some pictures showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up:   In the "My Words" section, word cards are directly linked to their...

Now Available! The HypLern Russian Reader for Android and Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, and the fifth product available is the HypLern Russian Reader for Android and Windows in our Russian collection of products on this site! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions of the App here for a less interactive format. Here's an image showing the interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up:     In the "My Words" section word cards are directly linked to their source so spaced repetition learning is enforced with associated...

Now Available! The HypLern French Reader for Android and Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, and the fourth product available is the HypLern French Reader for Android and Windows in our French collection of products on this site! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions of the App here for a less interactive format. Here's an image showing the interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up: In the "My Words" section word cards are directly linked to their source so spaced repetition learning is enforced with associated context:    

Now Available! The HypLern German Reader for Android or Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, a terribly long process as you may have noticed, and our third product available is the HypLern German Reader for Android or Windows, look for it in our German collection of products! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions there for a less interactive format :) Here's a .gif video showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up: In the "My Words" section, word cards are directly linked...

Now Available! The HypLern Swedish Reader for Android and Windows! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, a terribly long process as you may have noticed, and the second product available is the HypLern Swedish Reader for Android and Windows, look for it in our Swedish collection of products! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions there for a less interactive format :) Here's a .gif video showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up: In the "My Words" section, word cards...

Now Available! The HypLern Hungarian Reader for Android! We're starting to upload the Apps for all languages into the App stores, and the first product available is the HypLern Hungarian Reader for Android and Windows in our Hungarian collection of products on this site! You can also find the pdf+mp3 versions of the App here for a less interactive format. Here's a .gif video showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up: In the "My Words" section word cards are directly linked to their source so spaced repetition learning...

Running on iOS phone or tablet, Android or Windows smart phone, or run on your Windows or Mac PC or laptop The new App we built is cross-platform and supports all above mentioned devices. For test purposes it's currently live on Android and Windows and Amazon Fire, coming up in June on iOS. Here's a .gif video showing the new toggle between an interlinear format, our new pop-up interlinear version of the text, or the familiar pop-up: In the "My Words" section word cards are directly linked to their source so spaced repetition learning is enforced with associated context:    

The perks of working and living in a different language While bilingualism is an obvious asset, having to speak in a second language, usually English, when you have to think and talk smart and fast may be a disadvantage. ‘Non-natives have not one hand, but perhaps a bit of their brains, tied behind their backs’, as The Economist describes (Of two minds, April 9th 2016). Participating in a discussion, explaining a new strategy, telling office jokes- the right words might not always come to you fast enough, loosing the speed and timing to make your point. Native speakers have the...

Thousands Of Years Of Learning Languages Word For Word Recently I was directed to and read an eight year old article by Ernest Blum on the history of language learning: "The New Old Way Of Learning Languages". In short it states that languages for thousands of years used to be learned word-for-word or with literal interlinear translations, where every word in the original text would have a corresponding gloss explaining the meaning and sometimes even the grammar. The idea behind this was that the student is helped on his way to becoming fluent, and that it assisted in building a large...

Do You Want To Read French? Here's your chance. Read French Fairy Tales or Short Stories with every word having a mouse-over pop-up translation. Even with a small vocabulary it's easy to read the French text because of the fast and immersive translation. Check out our .gif video below and wait until it gets to the flash card list of my words. The question mark in the software allows you to see the sentence that the word is taken from.   Learn Vocabulary With Flash Cards The software calculates the number of times you have to practice new words by checking the...

Links to Books with German to English Interlinear Word-for-Word Translation Books give you the best exposure to a language. You'll get the chance to acquire the most extensive vocabulary possible. To have every word translated helps you learn those new words better. For German we compiled a list of Interlinear books with word-for-word translation. Note that there are a lot of "interlinear" books out there which are just bilingual texts with the paragraphs on top of eachother. For learning purposes it is important to have the original word aligned with the English meaning. How else would you be able to...

Do You Want To Read German? Here's your chance. Read German Fairy Tales or Short Stories with every word having a mouse-over pop-up translation. Even with a small vocabulary it's easy to read the German text because of the fast and immersive translation. Check out our .gif video below and wait until it gets to the flash card list of my words. The question mark in the software allows you to see the sentence that the word is taken from.   Learn Vocabulary With Flash Cards The software calculates the number of times you have to practice new words by...

Do You Want To Read Russian? Here's your chance. Read Russian Fairy Tales or Short Stories with every word having a mouse-over pop-up translation. Even with a small vocabulary it's easy to read the Russian text because of the fast and immersive translation. Check out our .gif video below and wait until it gets to the flash card list of my words. The question mark in the software allows you to see the sentence that the word is taken from.   Learn Vocabulary With Flash Cards The software calculates the number of times you have to practice new words by...