Read any article at your level, in the language you're learning

What the article reader does

LingunAI’s article reader turns an article you want to read into one you can read. You paste the text, choose the language you’re learning and a CEFR level from A1 to C2, and LingunAI rewrites the article in that language, at that level.

That makes it two tools in one: a simplifier and a translator. Paste an English news story and read it in Italian at A2, or in German at B2. The subject stays the same; only the language changes, to fit your level.

The rewrite keeps the facts. LingunAI is instructed not to invent names, numbers or quotes. At the lowest levels it may drop minor details so the sentences stay simple, which is the trade-off any text written for beginners makes.

How to use it

1. Find something worth reading. Any article you’d read anyway works: a news story, a feature, a blog post. If you need a starting point, the page links to the homepages of BBC News, Sky News, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, NPR and Deutsche Welle.
2. Copy the text, not the link. LingunAI doesn’t fetch pages from links. Paste the article text itself, anywhere from 200 to 40,000 characters.
3. Choose your language and level. Pick the language you’re learning and a level from A1 to C2.
4. Read. The rewrite appears with its key vocabulary pulled out underneath.

You can open the article reader without an account; rewriting needs you to sign in. Each rewrite costs 2 credits.

What you get

• The article, rewritten in the language you’re learning, at the level you chose.
• 8 to 12 key words from the rewrite, each with an English definition, a new example sentence and an “Add to deck” button.
• Read aloud for the whole article or any single vocabulary word, using your browser’s built-in speech.
• Select to save. Select any word in the article and choose “Add to Flashcard”. Fill in the definition, synonyms, antonyms and two examples yourself, or let AI Magic Fill do it for 1 credit.

It suits learners from about A2 up who want to read about the world rather than textbook topics, and B2 and C1 readers who can manage original articles but read them slowly and want more pages per hour.

Choosing the right level

Pick the level at which you understand almost everything without a dictionary. Laufer (1989) put the threshold for reasonable comprehension at about 95% of words known, and Hu and Nation (2000) found that reading fiction without help takes about 98%. If a rewrite leaves you looking up a word in every line, the level is set too high.

One habit pays off: read an article at your level first, then paste it again one level higher, for another 2 credits. The second version covers ideas you already understand, so all the extra difficulty is language, which is exactly the part you’re there to learn. The guide to CEFR levels explains what readers at each level can handle.

How it connects to the rest of LingunAI

Every word you keep becomes a flashcard on a spaced repetition schedule that brings it back after 1, 3, 7 and then 15 days by default. The same words can go into your next AI-generated story, so you meet them again in a new context instead of only on a card.

Reading articles about real events and stories built around your own words work well together: one keeps your reading tied to the world, the other gives the words you’re learning extra repetitions.