Monolingualism is a choice
Some doors only open
in the local language
The keys are cut, printed, and waiting.
What you take with you, in order
A ninja was never a fighter.
A ninja was someone who got in.
01
Passepartout
Five printed pages that carry you through the arrival: the phrases, the sounds, the nerve.
This is how you get in. Take the kit
This is how you get in. Take the kit
02
Gems
Words with no direct translation anywhere else.
This is what you find once you are inside. Open the collection
This is what you find once you are inside. Open the collection
03
Camouflage
Fifty pieces of local slang no course teaches.
This is how you stop being noticed. Sound local
This is how you stop being noticed. Sound local
Swipe \u2192 all three
A game, before anything serious
How far do you already reach?
Tick the languages you speak and watch the map light up.
Play the reach test
The books
Nocturnes
Six strange, simple stories in Italian, written to be read straight through.
A lift that stops at a floor that does not exist. A shop that sells silence in black boxes. A hotel room where it rains if you have lied. Every story sits, almost entirely, inside the 2,000 most frequent words of spoken Italian, measured against a corpus of film subtitles, not estimated. Word lists after each half, a summary in Italian and in English, five questions.
One gem a week
A word with no translation, in your inbox. Nothing else, ever.
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