Reading practice that is actually worth reading
Today's news, rewritten for the language you're learning
Textbook dialogues are about nobody. Livalingo takes real articles published today, rewrites them at your level, and hands them to you in the language you're learning — so the reading practice is something you'd have wanted to read anyway.
Two stories a day, free forever. No card to start.
Madrid plantará medio millón de árboles
Madrid medio millón de árboles durante los próximos cinco años para el calor del verano. El calcula que las nuevas zonas de pueden la temperatura de algunas hasta cuatro grados.
ayuntamiento
/a.ʝun.taˈmjen.to/noun · masculine
city council, town hall
El ayuntamiento calcula que las nuevas zonas de sombra pueden reducir la temperatura.
The city council estimates the new shaded areas can lower the temperature.
- languages to learn
- 46languages to learn
- languages to learn from
- 73languages to learn from
- every level, same story
- A0–C1every level, same story
- topics you choose
- 8topics you choose
Any word, any time
Tap it. Understand it. Keep it, if it's worth keeping.
No dictionary, no leaving the page, no losing your place. A word gives you its dictionary form, how it's pronounced, what it means here, and the sentence it came from — because a word without its sentence is half a word.
How it works
Four steps, every morning, before you open it.
- 01
We gather the day's news
Real articles from real publications, pulled fresh and filtered to the topics you picked — technology, world, science, sport, whatever you actually read.
- 02
We read them properly
Not the headline and not the summary blurb. The full piece is extracted and understood end to end, so nothing important gets lost in the retelling.
- 03
We rewrite them at your level
Same story, same facts, written to your CEFR level in the language you're learning. Shorter sentences and commoner words at A1; full journalistic prose at C1.
- 04
You read, and tap what you don't know
Every word is tappable. Pronunciation, meaning, and the sentence it came from — then it goes into your review pile, if you want it.
Your level
One story. Written six different ways.
This is the part no textbook can do. Pick a level and watch the same article rewrite itself — not shortened, not dumbed down, but genuinely re-set for how much you can read today.
Madrid plantará medio millón de árboles
Madrid plantará medio millón de árboles durante los próximos cinco años para combatir el calor del verano. El ayuntamiento calcula que las nuevas zonas de sombra pueden reducir la temperatura de algunas calles hasta cuatro grados.
B1Longer sentences, future and conditional, everyday news vocabulary.
At A0 the story is partly in a language you already know, and shifts across as you go. From A1 it's entirely in the language you're learning.
Inside the app
Built for the ten minutes you actually have.
It lives on your home screen, works on the underground, and never asks you to do a lesson.
Illustrative screens. Your feed is built from real articles published the day you open it.
Everything else
The small things you'd miss.
Hear it read aloud
PlusNarration for any story, in the language you're learning and in your own. Reading and listening from the same text, which is how the two actually reinforce each other.
Review that comes from your reading
PlusWords you saved, resurfaced on a spaced-repetition schedule. Not somebody's frequency list — the words you personally stumbled on, in the sentences you met them in.
Read on the underground
PlusDownload a story and it's yours — text, audio, images. Saves and review grades you make offline sync the moment you're back.
A goal you can hit on a bad day
Five, ten, or fifteen minutes. A streak that rewards showing up rather than grinding, and one quiet reminder at the hour you actually read.
On your home screen
Installs straight from the browser — no app store, no download, no 200MB. It updates itself and opens like any other app.
In your language, not just English
The interface speaks 74 languages, in the right typeface for the script, laid out right-to-left where it should be.
Languages
46 to learn. 73 to learn from.
Most apps make you learn through English. Livalingo doesn't: your own language is one of seventy-three, so a Kazakh speaker learning Korean never has to detour through a third language to get there.
- English
- Español
- Русский
- Deutsch
- 한국어
- Türkçe
- Français
- 日本語
- 中文
- Italiano
- العربية
- Português
- Oʻzbekcha
- Қазақша
- Nederlands
- Polski
- Svenska
- Українська
- हिन्दी
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Tiếng Việt
- ไทย
- فارسی
- עברית
- Ελληνικά
- Čeština
- Română
- Magyar
- Dansk
- Norsk
- Suomi
- Azərbaycanca
- Кыргызча
- Тоҷикӣ
- বাংলা
- اردو
- Bahasa Melayu
- Tagalog
- Kiswahili
- Српски
- Hrvatski
- Български
- Slovenčina
- ქართული
- Հայերեն
- Afrikaans
Pricing
Free is genuinely free.
Two full stories every day, at any level, with every word tappable and savable. No trial clock on it. Plus is for when two a day stops being enough.
Free
- Two full stories every day
- Every level, A0 to C1
- Tap any word for meaning and pronunciation
- Save words and review them
- All 46 languages
Plus
or $39.99 a year — two months free
- Everything in Free, without the daily limit
- Audio narration in both languages
- Download stories to read offline
- Spaced-repetition review built from your words
- Cancel any time, from the app
Questions
The things people ask first.
Do I need to already know some of the language?
No. A0 exists for exactly that: the story starts mostly in a language you already speak and blends across into the one you're learning, so you're reading real sentences on day one instead of memorising a word list. From A1 upward, everything is in your target language.
Where do the stories come from?
Real publications, fetched on the day you read them. We pull the articles matching the topics you chose, read the full piece, and rewrite it at your level. The facts are the publication's; the sentences are set for you.
How is this different from a flashcard app?
The words come to you in the order the world uses them, not in the order a deck author guessed. And every card you review carries the sentence you actually met it in, which is most of what makes a word stick.
Is there an app to download?
Livalingo installs from your browser to your home screen in a couple of taps — no app store, no download, and it updates itself. It opens full-screen like any other app and works offline once you've downloaded a story.
Which languages can I learn?
46, from English, Spanish, German, Korean and Japanese through to Uzbek, Kazakh, Georgian and Swahili. You can learn from any of 73 — the app itself, and the glosses in it, speak your language rather than routing you through English.
What happens when the free stories run out?
Nothing bad. You keep everything you've saved, your streak survives, and two more arrive tomorrow. Plus lifts the limit if you want to read more in a sitting.
Can I cancel?
Any time, from your profile. The trial is seven days and takes a card only so the subscription can continue if you want it to — cancel before it ends and you're not charged.
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