Quoth: Learn by Reading

Quoth is a small library for reading in another language. Spanish, today. You choose a book at your level, open it, and read. When a word stops you, tap it and the meaning appears above the line; the page never moves. Keep the words worth keeping, and they come back later as cards, in the sentences you found them in. It is for anyone learning a language on their own terms. Pick a book, tap what you don't know, and let it read to you, so you hear the language while you see it. Nothing to earn, no one keeping score. The book is the point. THE SHELF Quoth comes with a shelf of public-domain books in Spanish, arranged from first steps to the classics. At launch: Cuentos y leyendas, a book of folk tales retold for learners; fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault; A Christmas Carol; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; and two Sherlock Holmes novels, The Hound of the…