Stop studying languages. Start reading them.
Real progress happens when you care about what happens next. By chapter three, you’re absorbed in the plot—not translating in your head, but actually reading.
We publish original fiction engineered specifically for language learners: authentic stories with CEFR-calibrated difficulty, contextual vocabulary, and zero simplified adaptations.
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New series and new books, across every language.
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- Original fiction, not adaptations
Not a simplified version of something else. Written for the level, from the ground up.
- A real starting point
Every book states its level clearly, so you start exactly where you are, not at a generic “beginner.”
- More than just prose
Messages, notices, menus, documents: real registers woven into the story, not just narration.
- Support that fades
Heavy scaffolding at the start. Almost none by the end. That’s not an accident.
Series we think you’ll love
먼 제비 (Meon Jebi)
Distant Swallow
Yun Jaesung is a researcher tracking Korean cultural heritage scattered abroad — colonial-era seizures, wartime looting, fraudulent sales. Original investigative fiction written in Korean, running from B1 to C1.
Nordeste Agora
Northeast Now
Five books, five cities in the Northeast of Brazil, and a reporter who keeps asking after everyone else has stopped. Original investigative fiction written in Brazilian Portuguese, running from B1 to early C1.
Escala Técnica
Technical Stopover
Valentina Reyes quit investigative journalism to travel Latin America for a living — great restaurants, fascinating cities, the kind of work that looks like a permanent vacation. Except paradise has a back of house. Five check-ins. Five cover-ups. And one name that keeps turning up underneath all of it.
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