I am (re-)learning French and would like to grow my vocabulary and contextual grammar by reading the same texts in parallel.

I know there is a couple of books that do English and French stories side by side, but I like doing it on the computer (or better yet iPad) with easy access to dictionary and maybe even memorization software.

I've tried doing it with printed books, one in each language, but that was just too annoying to navigate back and forth. Plus, I still had to retype the word for dictionary lookup. Not a particularly portable setup.

Has anybody found useful resources like that, Free or Paid. Ideally, it would an iPad app with side-by-side English/French (or Russian/French) with embedded dictionary lookup and some sort of spaced-repetition Word memorization component or interface.

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Ce genre de questions, s'il est autorisé, devrait être Community Wiki. Flag => moderator pour ce faire. – F'x Aug 24 '11 at 19:58
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It looks like Frendees offers a collection of dual language e-books available as kindle editions. You can use the free kindle apps to read them on your PC or you Ipad. Amazon has other books in dual language kindle edition available.

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Thanks, this looks like a good start. Frendlees themselves don't seem to show exactly what they offer and Amazon preview does not explain it either. From what I can tell, it seems like a hyperlinked English version where each sentence or so links to corresponding French version so you can just navigate back and forth. Not side by side, but might be ok. I'll spend a buck to test it anyway. – Alexandre Rafalovitch Aug 24 '11 at 17:40
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