StoryMint in Spanish: books written in Spanish, not translated
The site, the app and the books, in neutral Latin American Spanish. Stories are written in Spanish from the start, not translated afterwards.
You can usually tell when a children's story was translated: rhymes that stop rhyming, wordplay that falls flat, sentences that sound like an instruction manual. That's why StoryMint in Spanish doesn't translate your books. It writes them in Spanish.
A whole site in Spanish
At es.storymint.ca, everything is in Spanish: the site, the app, the library, the blog, the messages and the books you make. The Spanish is neutral Latin American Spanish, and it always speaks to you with the friendly tú, so it reads naturally in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina or anywhere else.
The Spanish site has its own account and its own library. Books you make in Spanish live there, next to other books in Spanish.
Written in Spanish, not translated
When you describe an idea on es.storymint.ca, StoryMint asks for the story in Spanish from the very start. Nothing is written in English and translated afterwards. That's true for all four formats: picture books, comics, beta novels and coloring books, and our automated tests check it format by format.
The goal is simple: sentences that sound natural read aloud, and titles that were thought up in Spanish instead of copied from English.
Our Spanish coloring books
To try it out, the StoryMint team made 50 coloring books in Spanish. They include a complete series, Las Aventuras de Lila y la Mochila Mágica, starring Lila, Tito el Colibrí (a hummingbird) and Doña Rueda (a friendly wooden wheel), plus books about dinosaurs, piñatas, jungle animals, colorful markets and neighbors who help each other.
They aren't translations: their titles and captions were written directly in Spanish, like "En la plaza, Lila encuentra un mapa que brilla en su mochila" ("In the town square, Lila finds a map glowing in her backpack").
Good ideas to start with
- A bedtime story with your family's names, for grandparents who read in Spanish.
- A coloring book for an upcoming birthday party, piñata included.
- A class book if you teach Spanish as a second language.
What if our family speaks both languages?
Use both sites. storymint.ca makes books in English and es.storymint.ca makes books in Spanish. Each site has its own account, so a book lives in one of them. For a bilingual pair, make one version in each language from the same idea.
