KADMEA

Private beta · Russian · French · Spanish · English

Kadmea. The new old way
to learn a language.

Learn Russian from Tolstoy, French from Flaubert, Spanish from Cervantes. Read the classics you've always meant to — and learn a language doing it.

Interactive demo

See grammar. Don't study it.

Toggle signposts on real sentences — Russian, French, Spanish. The same method, every language, every grammatical feature visible in the text.

Spaced repetition

Books to Flashcards.

Every word you tap in the reader becomes a flashcard, timed to return at the exact moment before you'd forget it. Reading builds your vocabulary automatically.

ES · Spanish

Palabras

pa · la · bras

tap to flip
from Don Quijote

Words

RU · Russian

Которые

ko · to · rye

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from The Student

that

FR · French

Collent

kol

tap to flip
from Boule de Suif

stick

Words · that · stick

Two ways to read

Read literature
the way it was written.

Choose how you engage — word-for-word to master the language, or elegant to immerse yourself in the story.

Chekhov · The Student, 1894

В начале апреля, возвращался студент духовной академии.

In the beginning of April, was returning the student of the theological academy.

Every word mapped, every ending visible. Grammar is absorbed through the text itself — case endings, verb aspects and noun genders all annotated as you read. The method for anyone who wants to own the language.

Dive into classic literature right now. New authors and works added every week.

Ч

Anton Chekhov

The Student

1894 · Short story

Д

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

1877 · Short story

Ш

Nikolai Gogol

The Overcoat

1842 · Novella

С

Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

1886 · Novella

Early access

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Kadmea — Read Russian Literature the Way It Was Written