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Bahushruta means "one who has heard much" — which is how a language is actually learned: by hearing and reading a great deal of it, always just past the edge of what you already know. Suka, the parrot of the old Sanskrit story collections, is its emblem: the bird who has heard all the stories.
Each page is one sentence from a news text in that language. Every sentence was picked because you already know almost every word in it — so you can read it, and it will teach you one or two new words.
What to do: read the sentence. Tap any word with a dotted underline once you know it. That is the whole thing. The dotted words are the only ones that are new to you.
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Hindi
Written for someone who already knows about 500 common words. Every sentence is picked so that all but one or two of its words are already yours — that is the whole idea.
“केजरीवाल कह रहे हैं कि एक तरफ बीजेपी, कांग्रेस और दूसरे तमाम दल हैं जबकि दूसरी तरफ उनकी सरकार के काम हैं जो दिल्ली की जनता के लिए किए गए हैं.”
Start here →7,763 texts available at this starting point · other starting points: someone who cannot read the script yet · someone who can read the script but knows no words yet · someone who reads the script and knows about 2,000 words
Spanish
Written for someone who already knows about 500 common words. Every sentence is picked so that all but one or two of its words are already yours — that is the whole idea.
“Debido a esta crisis sanitaria a nivel internacional, la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), informó que los trabajadores de todo el mundo podrían llegar a perder hasta tres mil millones de dólares en ingresos.”
Start here →6,704 texts available at this starting point · other starting points: someone who knows the letters but knows no words yet · someone who already knows about 2,000 common words
Japanese
Written for someone who already knows about 500 common words. Every sentence is picked so that all but one or two of its words are already yours — that is the whole idea.
“なお、モバイルPASMOはAndroid スマートフォン向けのサービスのみが用意されていて、iPhoneでの展開は今後の対応予定も含めて明らかにされていません。”
Start here →7,639 texts available at this starting point · other starting points: someone who knows the Chinese characters but not the kana · someone who knows the characters and the kana · someone who knows the characters, the kana and about 2,000 words
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Hindi — 40 texts to start with
Spanish — 40 texts to start with
Japanese — 40 texts to start with
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