Read real stories. Hear every sentence.

Short stories written for learners, then real Wikipedia articles and classics by Galdós, Kafka and Chekhov. Tap a sentence to hear it read aloud. Tap a word to translate it.

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One story, from the first sentence to your shelf

Real texts, not made up

From B1, every text is a verbatim excerpt from Wikipedia or a public-domain classic, credited to its source. Below that, stories are written by people for learners, never generated on the fly.

texts

1,000+

languages

91

levels

A1–C2

  • Spanish · B2Galdós · Wikisource
  • Russian · C1Чехов · Wikisource
  • German · C1Kafka · Wikisource
  • Spanish · B2Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
  • Russian · B2Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
  • Spanish · A2Story for learners
Every finished text joins your shelf, coloured by kind: stories, articles, classics, poems.

Paste anything. It becomes a reading lesson.

An article, a song, a letter, or one of your notes. You get the same reader and three questions written for it. Your text is never changed, and only you see it.

Library narration is free. Narrating your own texts uses your audio allowance.

Your first text is already picked

Open the Reading room, choose your level, and start with a short story picked for you. The rest of the library opens from there.

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Questions about the Reading room

91 of them. Each study language has its own library, from A1 to C2.

The Reading room shows you the nearest level that has texts and says so. You can change your level at any time, or paste a text of your own.

From B1 up, every text is a verbatim excerpt from Wikipedia or a public-domain classic, credited to its source. A1 and A2 texts are short stories written by people for learners, some of them four-chapter series. Nothing is generated while you read.

Yes. Paste an article, a song or a letter, or open one of your notes or a community note. You get the same reader and three questions written for your text. Your text is never changed, and only you see it.

Yes. Finishing a text keeps your streak going and counts toward the weekly reading quest. It pays 40 points, plus 10 when you answer all three questions right, on up to 5 texts a day. After that you can keep reading for practice.

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