David Ecklund
Founder, In the Original
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I build the bridge between language learning and real literature.In the Original is a reading platform where anyone can pick up Goethe, Rilke, or Kafka in the original German and start reading today — at any level. The reader adapts to you automatically, with native-quality AI narration synchronized to every word. The support fades as you learn, until one day you're just reading.I built it from both sides: three years as a professional German-to-English literary translator, then a career in software engineering. I know what readers need because I've spent my life inside these texts.
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