Read Kafka.
Understand Kafka.
Great writing is the hardest and most rewarding English there is. Pick a classic from the library — or paste the page you are stuck on — and it becomes a complete lesson built around that exact text.
Every passage is levelled A1 to C2, with explanations available in Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, German or Spanish.
Choose your text
The classics, or whatever you are reading.
Search the library for Kafka, Wilde, Cervantes, Poe and the rest, or paste a passage from your own book, article or course reader. Either way you get a lesson built from that text and nothing else.
Then the text opens up
Difficult prose, made readable.
Literature is where learners give up. This is the support that keeps you going.
- 1A plain-English introduction telling you what happens and what to watch for at your level.
- 2Listen to the passage read aloud while you follow the text.
- 3Meet the author — a short biography and portrait, so the writing has a person behind it.
- 4Vocabulary, grammar, idioms, translation and pronunciation taken from the passage itself.
- 5Exercises generated from those exact lines, quoting the sentence each word came from.
- 6Write or speak your own sentences with the new words and idioms, and get them scored.
Start with the book you always meant to finish.
Take the free level test, then read a classic with a tutor sitting next to you.