Platero y yo
Jiménez in Original Spanish
Read Juan Ramón Jiménez’s beloved “Platero y yo” — the tender prose-poem about a poet and his little silver donkey — in the original Spanish, side by side with a fluent English translation, sentence by sentence.
Each short vignette is self-contained, making this Nobel-laureate classic perfect for graded reading: natural Spanish with tap-to-define vocabulary, audio, and word-by-word alignment. Includes a generous selection of the opening vignettes.
Part of a growing collection of classic stories for language learners.
Source & attribution
Original text: “Platero y yo” by Juan Ramón Jiménez (1914). Public domain, via Project Gutenberg #9980.