Συλλογή: Parallel Text

Lenacke Press' parallel text books feature interesting, non-fiction topics, that will allow you to benefit not only from learning your target language, but also from its message.

Our parallel text books are specially designed and follow a sensible sentence-by-sentence format, making it easy to spot an unknown word in your native language in the sentence just below the one you are reading.

These parallel text books are for Advanced Greek whose first language is English.

Advanced students of English whose first language is Greek can also use these books to improve their English. The introduction in each volume is provided in both languages for this purpose.

The Greek Travel Diaries book series can be read in any order.

Each book takes you to 3 or 4 different places in Greece as they were over a century ago. So just pick the one with the places you want to read about! 

These books can be used in the classroom or at home, anywhere in the world.

NEW! We have added 3 short engaging novels to our parallel text collection! (Intermediate Level)

1) The Story of Matina from Poros Island: Greek English Parallel Text. Although it is a work of fiction, it gives you a glimpse of what life was like in Athens and the islands at the beginning of the 20th century when Greece was still a very poor country.

2) The Finding of the Cave on Poros Island: Greek-English Parallel Text.  This story centers on an eleven-year-old boy called Pavlo Zamanas, proud descendant of great-grandpa Zamanas who fought bravely in the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

3) Alexander - A Shoeshine Boy in Athens: Greek English Parallel Text. This story is about a twelve-year-old boy called Alexandros, or Alekos for short, who works as a newspaper seller and shoe shiner in the streets of Athens every day and goes to school in the evenings.

For bulk orders or any other questions, please get in touch with Eleni at info [at] lenacke.com.