The language app for after the language apps
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Don't let your German stay stuck.
Apilingual turns the books, podcasts, and videos you actually want to understand into your course, with a vocabulary system you can see, and practice built from what you read. Whether you're just starting out or pushing past the intermediate plateau.
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This is the actual reading experience. Every word, tracked.
Der Morgen war kühl , und der Nebel lag über den Dächern .
Anna öffnete das Fenster und atmete tief ein .
Irgendwo läutete eine Glocke , langsam und schwer , als wollte sie den Tag noch nicht wecken .
Sie schloss die Augen und lächelte leise .
This is the actual reading experience. Every word, tracked.
Beginner apps end. The language doesn't.
You finished the tree. You know the colors, the food words, the present tense. Then you opened a real book, or overheard a real conversation, and understood almost nothing. This is the intermediate plateau, and it's where most learners quit. Not because they're bad at languages, but because the gap between "app sentences" and the real language is enormous, and nothing on their phone is designed to cross it.
The shift
You don't need more drills. You need more input you can understand.
Decades of research on language acquisition point the same way: you acquire a language by understanding messages in it: reading and listening to material slightly above your level, in volume. The problem was never the method. The problem is that real content is too hard, and graded readers are too boring. Apilingual fixes the tooling: any text, ebook, or audio becomes a lesson where every word is one tap from understood, and one tap from tracked.
Matched to you
The app knows your words. So it knows what you're ready to read.
Every word you meet, Apilingual remembers, which means it knows what's too easy for you and what's still too hard. Instead of dropping you into content you can't follow, it points you to text at your level: mostly words you already know, so the meaning carries you, with just enough new ones to grow. Each thing you read reinforces the vocabulary you've built and adds a little more: one percent further, every time. That edge is where a language is actually acquired, and it's exactly what untracked reading and passive watching can't find for you.
How it works
Read what you love. Keep every word.
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Bring anything. Import pasted text, EPUB or PDF ebooks, and audio: a single episode or a whole audiobook, file by file, transcribed into read-along lessons automatically. Send YouTube videos straight to your library with the browser extension. Or start with built-in guided stories at your level.
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Read with a safety net. Tap any word for meaning. Every word is marked new, learning, or known, and that record drives everything that follows.
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Practice what you read. Your vocabulary feeds a spaced-repetition system with drills built for every stage of knowing a word. Mastery is earned, not grinded.
Reading about it isn't reading.
Pick something you've been meaning to read and start there.
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If you can read or hear it, you can learn from it.
Paste an article, drop in an EPUB or PDF, upload a podcast or a whole audiobook, or send a YouTube video straight from your browser. Apilingual turns any of it into a read-along lesson with every word tracked.
Measurable
Your vocabulary. Actually yours.
Most apps hide your vocabulary inside an algorithm. Apilingual makes it a first-class object: every word you've ever met, its status, the sentences you met it in, and a mastery score earned from how you actually perform, not from how many times you tapped "easy."
Because you can see it, you can count it: words you can read and use. A few weeks in, you feel it. A few months in, real content opens up. A year in, you're reading the language. The number doesn't flatter you, and it doesn't need to.
Practice
Practice that adapts to you.
Reading builds understanding; practice makes it stick. Every word you meet feeds a spaced-repetition system that brings each review back right when you're about to forget it, not on a fixed calendar. The schedule bends to you: the words you find hard come back sooner; the ones you've made yours fade into the background.
Recognizing a word when you see it, recalling it when you need it, and producing it yourself are three different skills, and each is earned a different way. Practicing all of them the same way is why words stall at "looks familiar." Apilingual moves each word through recognition, recall, and production with the kind of practice each stage actually needs, so your vocabulary becomes something you can use, not just something you've seen.
New to the language?
Start with stories built to teach you.
Our guided stories begin at zero and carry you through whole CEFR levels in a handful of chapters, each one designed to introduce exactly the right new words, and each with a strange, funny, or unforgettable moment that makes them stick. In all six languages.
Read your first real story today.
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