&quot;All Books, All Languages&quot;, or ABAL for short, is a modern, web-based, parallel text language-learning application that I&#x27;ve been working on as a side project for about a year.I&#x27;ve already received a lot of great feedback about the application among language learners. In addition to what I hope is an intuitive UI&#x2F;UX, one of the unique things about ABAL is the way that pronunciations are customized to a user&#x27;s native and target languages.Systems like IPA (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Phonetic_Alphabe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;International_Phonetic_Alphabe</a>...) don&#x27;t make pronunciation any easier to get right for a majority of - if not all - language learners. ABAL solves this by showing phonetic hints that are written in the user&#x27;s native language script and are meant to be pronounced in the native language&#x27;s voice.The name All Books, All Languages is intentionally quixotic, as it serves to set the ambitious and unreachable goal of hosting all of humanity&#x27;s written works while making them available to all language learners and readers across the globe!Today, it hosts a number of generated short stories categorized by subject and CEFR level. I&#x27;m currently working on supporting (private) self-uploaded files, and works in the public domain. Work is also going into adding support for more languages, while evaluating and optimizing for cross-language translations accuracy.It currently supports 56 languages (including Klingon and Latin!) - which comes out to 3080 permutations - or 3080 unique user profiles as I like to think of it. Both the marketing and application sites are fully internationalized - even response messages in 4xx responses use i18n. Quite a bit of work went into automating the i18n diff generation system to make sure I can release UI&#x2F;UX changes quickly.I hope you&#x27;ll find it useful if you&#x27;re learning a new language or need to practice one you already know. If you&#x27;re not learning a new language, but wish you could read classics in a language you&#x27;re fluent in, stay tuned!Marketing site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abal.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.abal.ai</a> 
Application site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;read.abal.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;read.abal.ai</a> 
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