Show HN: Making Don Quijote accessible to Spanish learners

4 points

3 years ago

I love simple english wikipedia and I wanted to use that style of writing to make spanish books accessible to me.

First I simplified the spanish[0] but simplification can't remove every word I don't know. This led me to adding the definition for words I probably wouldn't know[1].

Second simplifying the spanish ruined the magic of Don Quijote so I tried just adding definitions to the original[2].

The definitions aren't perfect but they let me stay in the flow of the text. I'm tempted to make a firefox extension to annotate any website so I can spend more time reading spanish.

Let me know what you think!

[0] https://spanish-xz56.s3.amazonaws.com/2000_simple.epub

[1] https://spanish-xz56.s3.amazonaws.com/2000_simple_B1.epub

[2] https://spanish-xz56.s3.amazonaws.com/2000_B1.epub