Btelo English
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Ranked #14 of 32 — easiest first.
The most common words in this book that fall outside the core vocabulary. Names are left out; these are the ones that actually repay learning before you start.
Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.
Btelo English plays The Hound of the Baskervilles one sentence at a time, highlighting each word as it is spoken, with a tap on any word opening its dictionary card. The full text is also free at Project Gutenberg if you would rather read it straight through.