Language practice with real books
Learn a language by typing the books you love.
Read a sentence in a language you know, type it in the one you're learning. Grammar, spelling and new words stick when they come from a story you want to finish.
Start your first book
Three ways in, and each one takes under a minute:
How it works
- Pick a bookA popular classic, any free book from the libraries we search, or two EPUB files of your own.
- Choose your languagesThe one you read is your guide; the one you type is your practice.
- Type, sentence by sentenceSee mistakes as you make them, click a word for its translation, and stop whenever you like.
Why typing works
You notice everything when you have to type it.
Reading a translation, your eyes skim past the article, the ending, the accent. Typing it, you can't: every letter goes through your fingers, so the details that make a language feel foreign become familiar, one sentence at a time.
Because you always see the sentence in a language you know, you never stop to look things up. You stay in the story, and the story keeps you going for chapters, not minutes.
Our popular books are lined up sentence by sentence with a multilingual language model, so the sentence you read is the one you type, even when the translator split it in two.
Made for real reading
- 100+ classics, ready to typeAlready matched across their translations: Austen, Verne, Tolstoy, Kafka and more.
- 80,000 free booksSearch Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, Wolne Lektury, Litteraturbanken and Ebooks libres et gratuits from one box.
- Any pair of languagesRead French and type German, or the other way round. Each book keeps its own pair.
- No special keyboardType "a" for "ą" or "e" for "é"; plain letters count as correct.
- Tap a word to translate itUnsure of a word? One click shows what it means and where it is in your language.
- Picks up where you stoppedProgress saves as you type, on this device or, signed in, on all of them.
On your phone
A few sentences on the bus add up.
TypeTranslate works on phones and tablets with the on-screen keyboard. Open it in your browser and choose Add to Home Screen to install it like an app: it starts instantly, works offline, and the popular books you've opened stay with you.
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