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Work · October 8, 2018

ParallelText

Read foreign-language books side-by-side in your language 🤓

ParallelText launched on October 8, 2018 with 78 votes, #604 of 2,827 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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What it does

ParallelText lets you learn languages by reading books in different languages at the same time 📚

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