![]() It means that you can read Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo in French, Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis in German and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote in Spanish – as well as Aristotle’s On the Soul in Greek – without having to buy the actual book. The most extensive collections are in French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Tagalog, Esperanto, Greek, and Latin. Currently, the Project Gutenberg offers free literature in more than 60 tongues. In fact, websites like contain a huge collection of public domain books in other languages. ![]() Not all works published in the US are in English. What all of this has to do with language learning? It means that you can download hundreds of thousands of books, some of which are real masterpieces of the world’s literature, absolutely for free. Under the US copyright law, all books published in States before 1924 are in the public domain. However, it is not always the case, especially, if you know where to find them for free (and didn’t break the law on the way). I share 5 resources I use to ensure that I always have stuff to read in a language I learn.Īcquiring books in another language may seem like a solid investment. In this post, I attempt to resolve this mystery. How can you find foreign language books that would be both interesting, easy to understand and accessible? There is only one problem with this approach. ![]() After the first couple of weeks full of frustration, they as one begin to understand what they read and have fun. ![]() In fact, learners can read books in their target language from day one (if its writing system allows to do so). Reading in a foreign language helps to increase one’s vocabulary, develops spelling intuition and results in superior writing skills. And this unofficial observation (which many polyglots would subscribe to) is supported by tons of research on second language acquisition. I often note that the more I read in a given language the more at ease I become speaking it.
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