I grew up with an Italian dad, but I was too stubborn to learn the language when I was young. When I was a teenager, I started regretting that choice. I started my journey to reach fluency in the language and the first steps went fast. But at some point I got a bit stuck and didn't progress much for a couple years. I enjoyed reading in Italian and especially books I already had seen the movie of, so I'd already understand the context of the book. During a holiday trip I was reading a book in Italian. On my phone I had the English version of the same book I would glance from the book to my phone and back, to confirm that I'd understood the paragraph I was reading. While this worked, the constant switching back and forth, made it feel more like work, than actual learning and having fun. The goal of this app is to help people advance from intermediate level in a language, to a more advanced level. Learning a language is tough, and having people spend time learning the language, in a fun and interactive way, is something we hope to achieve with this app. We hope that users try to focus on the original text, just like the author intended. If that is to difficult, one can use a simplification to understand it better. To motivate readers to read the original, the words you can learn are only the words that occur in the original text.

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Fluency through reading

Fluency through reading