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Meet Anna and Ben, the main characters of BILINGY, encounter their friends and follow them through their life, their careers and their little arguments, sometimes quirky, sometimes lazy and sometimes controversial, just like all of us.

BILINGY always has texts side by side in both languages, so you never have to puzzle about the meaning of a sentence, it's right there. New words are highlighted so you can identify them quickly and they are built up systematically over the course of 5 books and 60 chapters.
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BILINGY goes beyond the basics - it is very easy to find a textbook for beginners, even in the most exotic languages, but beyond that it becomes more challenging. BILINGY provides a structured way of learning up to C1 in the Common European Framework for Reference for Languages and builds up a vocabulary of more than 1000 words on each level.

Audio - listening comprehension is essential in real life - as we all found out the first time we stood there and tentatively tried a 'Where is the toilet, thanks? No, PLEASE, I mean please'. Download the Audio files for texts and vocabulary and use side by side with the book or on the go to immerse yourself fully.

Grammar - is suspiciously absent from BILINGY. If you study at school or at uni, there is no way to avoid grammar, but in real life what matters is to understand what is going on and get your message across, then you can worry about the 'future perfect continuous'.