An AI story generator for the words you're learning

What StorySplice is

StorySplice is LingunAI’s AI story generator for language learners. You choose the words you want to practice, a CEFR level from A1 to C2 and a length of up to 500 words, and it writes a complete story in the language you’re learning: a beginning, a middle and an end, with your words worked into the plot.

It does the job of a graded reader, a book written with controlled vocabulary for one level, with one difference: you decide which words it practices. No two stories come out alike, either. StorySplice varies the theme, setting, tone and main character each time, so ten stories built from one word list read like ten different stories.

How you set up a story

Every story starts from four choices:

• Languages. The language of the story, and the language of the full translation that appears below it.
• Level. Any CEFR level from A1 to C2. The story is written for that level.
• Length. A slider from 50 to 500 words. It sets a maximum, so a story can come in shorter.
• Words to practice. Pick them from your flashcards in that language: search, sort, filter by deck or by date added, and see which cards are due. Or type your own, separated by commas. Leave the list empty for a random story.

How many words you can include depends on length: up to one for every 10 words of story. A 50-word story takes up to 5 of your words, a 150-word story up to 15, and a 500-word story up to 50.

What you get with every story

• The story itself, with every word you already have as a flashcard highlighted, so you can see your vocabulary at work.
• A full translation into the language you chose, placed below the story rather than mixed into it.
• A vocabulary list of 8 to 15 words from the story, each with a definition, synonyms and two new example sentences, and an “Add” button that puts the word in a deck.
• Read aloud, using your browser’s built-in text-to-speech. The voice depends on your device and browser.
• Select to save. Select any word in the story, choose “Add to Flashcard”, and it joins the deck you pick.

Stories are saved to your account. You can favorite the good ones and filter your list by language, so they’re there when you want to reread them. Each story costs 3 credits.

Tips for getting the most from it

• Build stories from your due cards. When you pick words, choose the cards marked as due. Each word then turns up in a real sentence on the day you’re meant to review it.
• Use fewer words than the maximum. Hu and Nation (2000) found that readers need to know about 98% of the words in a fiction text to understand it without help. If one word in ten is a word you’re still learning, the story is no longer easy reading. In a 150-word story, 5 to 8 practice words is plenty. More on this in how many words you need to read.
• Choose the level below your best guess. If more than a few words per paragraph stop you, drop a level. Easy reading builds speed, and the faster you read, the more language you meet in an hour.
• Read before you check. Read the whole story once for meaning, then use the translation only for the passages you weren’t sure about.
• Reread your favorites. A second reading a few days later goes faster and shows you which words have stuck.

How it connects to the rest of LingunAI

StorySplice is one step in a simple loop: read at your level, keep the words that stop you, and review them until they stick. Words you save become flashcards that come back after 1, 3, 7 and 15 days by default, and those same cards are what you choose for your next story, so new vocabulary gets both reviewed and read in context.

When you’d rather read about real events, the article reader rewrites an article you paste at your level and pulls out its key vocabulary. Every word you save from either tool lands in the same decks.