Learn languages by reading books you love
Read the books you love. Tap any word or sentence to see its precise translation and meaning in context. Works on iPhone, Android, and e-ink readers.
Read the books you love. Tap any word or sentence to see its precise translation and meaning in context. Works on iPhone, Android, and e-ink readers.
You did not learn your first language from word lists. You met words in real life, again and again, until you knew them. Reading works the same way. You meet real words in real stories that you chose, at your own speed. But one thing often gets in the way. You stop every few sentences to look something up. You get distracted and lose focus, and the story falls apart. duoBooks fixes this. You stay in the book, and you learn the language as you read. Learn English by reading.
duoBooks does more than look up a word in a dictionary. When you tap a word, it also sends the sentence around it. So you get the meaning that fits right here. If the word is part of an idiom or phrasal verb, it translates the whole phrase, not just the parts. This is the real difference from pasting a single word into a translator. With duoBooks, the context comes too. Double-tap a word or tap a whole sentence. Translation works from any book language into any reading language. See how duoBooks compares to Google Translate.
Save any word to your own dictionary. It is saved with the exact sentence where you found it. Each word comes with phonetics, synonyms, and meanings. You can sort words into groups that fit how you study. Your vocabulary grows from the books you really read, not from random word lists.
duoBooks comes with more than 3000 English books and short stories. You will find classic books and short stories made just for beginners. The beginner stories use simple words, repeat words often, and keep sentences short. Pick something you will really enjoy. When you enjoy a book, you keep reading, and reading is how you learn the language. Whatever you choose, every word and sentence is one tap from a translation that fits the context.
Already have books on your device? Import any EPUB or FB2 file into duoBooks. Then read it like any other book in the app. You get one-tap sentence translation, word lookups, and your own dictionary. duoBooks is an EPUB reader with translation for any pair of languages. So your own books become your language course. More about the EPUB reader with translation.
Words you save while reading become flashcards. You review them with spaced repetition. Each word comes back after a longer and longer wait: 12 hours, then a day, then 3 days, and so on. It returns just before you would forget it. A word counts as learned after five correct reviews in a row. Daily reminders help your vocabulary grow without taking much time.
Tap to hear any word or sentence read aloud. The app has text-to-speech in 47 languages. So you learn how words sound as you read. You also train your listening while you build your vocabulary.
duoBooks finds e-ink devices from BOOX, PocketBook, Dasung, Likebook, and other Android-based e-readers by itself. Then it turns on a special e-ink mode. This mode has a high-contrast black-and-white theme, text sizes made for e-ink, and menus built for paper-like screens. Do you love reading on e-ink? With duoBooks, you can learn a language right on your e-reader. More about duoBooks on e-ink readers.
Open a story you have always wanted to read. Tap the hard words to understand them in context, one at a time. duoBooks is free to download. So you can start reading in a few minutes.
The app makes it easy to read in the language you want to learn. You can translate every word or sentence in the books you read. Import your own files, or use our huge library of books and short stories.
Scan the QR code with your iPhone or iPad camera. This installs duoBooks from the App Store.
duoBooks is now on Google Play. Scan the QR code with your Android phone or tablet to install it.