Loanwords: A Multilingual Library

A multilingual reading library

Loanwords: A Multilingual Library is a PC language-learning reading library built around public-domain novels. You choose sentences from books in French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian or German, read their translations and word definitions, and listen to narration in the original language. It’s designed to help you learn to read through repeated exposure to sentences, vocabulary and grammar.

The library contains 25 novels, five in each language, arranged across 533 chapters. Its 79,310 sentences are translated, defined and read aloud, with 131 hours of narration in total. The selection includes works by Voltaire, Sōseki, Verne, Kafka, Pérez Galdós, Collodi and Pirandello.