Frequently asked questions

It's simple!

• • Subscribe to one of our plans and receive your credits
• • Redeem your credits on any of our hundreds of titles
• • Download our app to access your book and start learning a new language!

There is no minimum! Cancel any time, and restart your subscription whenever you'd like more credits.

Books you've redeemed with credits are yours to keep forever. Credits are valid for two years.

Yes! When you redeem a credit for a book, you'll always have access to it in our app—even if you pause or cancel your subscription.

Yes! Blended-language learning leverages your current habits and contextual clues to improve language retention naturally. But don't take our word for it—read about the research behind the diglot weave technique.

Step one: Download the official Prismatext app for your iOS or Android device.

Step two: Sign in with the same email you used to purchase. (If you used PayPal, it's your PayPal email.) We'll send a verification code to that address to confirm your account.

Pro tip: if you don't see the code, check your spam folder!

Step three: Start reading! Your books (and any future purchases) are added to your bookshelf automatically.

First, confirm you have the Prismatext app installed—books are read in the Prismatext mobile app (iOS and Android).

Next, confirm you signed in with the correct email address—the same one you used to purchase. (If you used PayPal, it's your PayPal email.)

Still stuck? Email us at support@prismatext.zohodesk.eu and we'll respond ASAP!

Presently, our main product is ebooks, but our roadmap has some exciting things in store for people interested in blending their own books!

If you have questions or are dissatisfied with your subscription, email us at support@prismatext.zohodesk.eu and we'll get it sorted out straight away!

Absolutely! Prismatext books are perfect for beginners (A1/A2) building vocabulary, and effective for intermediate learners (B1/B2) brushing up. They use a technique called the diglot weave—also known as blended language or sandwich stories—which has a number of academic studies verifying its efficacy.

Prismatext books use inline translations, rather than adjacent or interlinear ones. A single sentence may contain both the source language and its target language. These are sometimes called "sandwich stories," but until now they've mostly been associated with children's books.

Our current language offering is: Arabic, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.

We add new languages all the time, so check back often—and let us know if there's one you really want to try!

Nope! The Prismatext blending process follows strict rules and uses a proprietary method to identify the words and phrases that provide the most utility to learners. We teach you the most useful words, so you only spend time learning words you'll use often.

They sure do! Right now, gendered nouns, singular and plural states, and descriptors (adjectives, quantities, determiners, etc.) are our main areas of focus.

As we improve our process and add languages, you'll start seeing direct/indirect object relationships, verb conjugations, cases, particles, and more.

The best part? When you buy a book, you're also subscribing to updates and improvements to it for life—so your book only keeps getting better.

Each Prismatext book introduces new words gradually—new translations appear as old ones become familiar, so you're never swimming in dozens of unknown words at once.

And here's a little secret: each book contains far more than 250 translated words, but those are the ones we focus on extra hard. We show them off in a variety of phrases and iterations, so you could push 500 unique words with each book!

Prismatext uses a number of technologies and workflows for each book. Machine learning and manual reviews play equally important roles, and we're improving all the time—so please send us any feedback!

Prismatext will soon offer difficulty variants for each book. Beginner books introduce fewer words more gradually, while intermediate books have a steeper learning curve and translations of longer phrases.

Prismatext uses a technique popularized by Robbins Burling called the diglot weave. It "weaves" (or "blends") foreign words into sentences written in the learner's native language, and is ideal for new or intermediate learners—aiding retention of individual words and short phrases.

Dr. Burling earned his undergraduate degree from Yale (1950) and his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard (1958). In 1968 he wrote Some Outlandish Proposals For The Teaching Of Foreign Languages, outlining several new approaches—one of which was the diglot weave technique Prismatext uses today.

Since 1968, many academic studies have measured its efficacy. On every measure, the diglot weave technique consistently outperforms traditional "practice and drill" methods used in classrooms, textbooks, and flashcards.