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Speaking of out-of-copyright works, I checked Project Gutenberg and they do have books in various languages. There's probably some way to programmatically searc
by lioeters 5y ago
Speaking of out-of-copyright works, I checked Project Gutenberg and they do have books in various languages. There's probably some way to programmatically search their archive to list books that are available in multiple languages - which might be suitable for creating "interlinear translations".
For example, a list of all their books in Spanish:
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/es
Or Japanese:
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/ja https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/ja
This latter is a short list though, and they're old books with a style of writing that are not friendly for learning the language.
I suppose manual curation is necessary to decide what kind of books are best for this purpose, starting with a smaller vocabulary of simple words.
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I remember in high school I discovered a book of poems by Pablo Neruda, with the Spanish original and English on pages side by side. It was a wonderful reading experience, and I learned quite a lot from it.
Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition)
- abecedarius 5y agoThank you for pointing out the Neruda! I have a bilingual book of poetry by Borges -- I feel like for poems the bilingual format is still worth looking for for me, though translations are chancy.