The reading library
Something worth reading at every level.
A learner who can read something and enjoy it comes back. A learner who only ever drills does not. So there are 1,615 graded stories across the ten languages, and every one of them has something happen in it.
Counted, not estimated
The reading, in numbers.
Generated from the files that ship with the plugin. The build fails if these numbers and the files disagree.
What happens when you read one
- 1
It opens when you can read it
The app knows which of a story words you hold and how firmly. A story unlocks when you know enough of it, which you set, because below about seventy five per cent reading turns into decoding.
- 2
Tap anything you do not know
The gloss is written for the form as it stands in the text, not the dictionary form, so tapping an inflected word actually returns something.
- 3
What you tapped joins your collection
Tapping a word is the clearest signal you do not know it, and it costs nothing to act on. The words arrive with hooks attached.
- 4
Then the questions
Four to six per story: comprehension, true or false, and at least one gap taken straight out of the text. Scored into the gradebook where there is a class.
- 5
And the next one moves closer
Every story reports what share of its vocabulary you now carry, so the reading list unlocks itself as you go rather than on a schedule.
Checked before it ships
Nine hundred stories is more than anybody reads by hand.
Which is exactly why every one is read by a script instead. The harness checks the things that make a story unusable rather than merely imperfect, and the build does not exist until all of them pass.
The subtlest one is the gloss. A gloss whose key is the dictionary form while the story carries an inflected form does nothing at all: the reader taps the word, gets nothing back, and nobody finds out except the reader.
- Every vocabulary entry resolves to a word the library actually has
- Every comprehension answer is among its own choices
- Every gap question has a gap in it
- Every gloss key appears in the text it is glossing, exactly as written there
- Every story is written in its own script, long enough to be a story, and carries no em dashes
Read one now
Tap any underlined word.
A real story from the shipped library, with the same glossing the app uses.
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Tap an underlined word. In the app the same tap also tells you whether that word is already in your collection and when it is next due.
Start with ten words tonight
Thirty days free, no card. When the trial ends the account drops to the free limits and nothing is deleted.