By simply re-reading such texts for Hungarian for half an hour every evening I managed to add a thousand of headwords to my passive vocabulary after about a month. However, in my experience, if you have every word translated correctly and in context, and in difficult cases idiomatic English is added, interlinear texts can teach you a language pretty darn fast, just because there's a huge amount of words you're reading, and for every single one of them you can immediately see it's meaning, so that when re-reading the text, which is fast, again, because you have the meanings immediately available, you learn the words. For me that doesn't add much value, or at most the efficiency of finding the bilingual line right below your original text. Now, my opinion is, that if the interlinear is not word-for-word translated, it is sort of a parallel text put between the lines. I'm very much into correctly (manually) translated word-for-word translations, and originally I was doing only pop-up software, but recently I've diverted into interlinear e-books as well.

One might be able to produce one's own interlinear texts more simply just using Word or Excel, although it might be tedious getting the lines to 'line up' properly. However, there is no denying that making one's own long parallel texts with AR is a lot of word. With the flexibility of displaying it as either true parallel, or just target language with the ability to display individual fragments in translation, like a pop-up dictionary. Not genuine interlinear text, but an approximation to it. In my post about Aglona reader, I mention that it has the option of displaying the 2 texts as alternate 'fragments', which would be phrases, clauses, whole sentences, or sometimes just words.

I seem to remember when this was discussed on HTLAL it was mentioned that this was once a very popular method of studying biblical translations and also I think classical texts, and most of the (probably old, second-hand) interlinear material one is likely to find would be of that nature. Similar to the Assimil books, I guess.ĭoes anyone have experience using this approach, and if so, would you recommend it as productive?

these are books that have a line in your language under or across from one in the target language. Miket12 wrote:I've heard about interlinear books as a method to learn a language.

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