ParareadRead the news in the language you’re learning.

Pick a news story, a short read, a fact you didn’t know. It’s in the language you’re studying, with your own language one line down whenever you get stuck. Tap a word to keep it, and it comes back later with the sentence it came from.

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15languages, pick your pair

Contextkept with every word

Dailynews, stories, facts

Pararead split-screen reader with an English article, Ukrainian translation, and a word sheet.

Pararead practice exercise with a correct answer selected.

You read first. The translation waits until you want it.No falling down a dictionary hole.

Reading sticks when you’re reading something you’d read anyway.

Three things, over and over. Open something you want to read. Tap the words you’d like to remember. They come back to you later, sitting in the sentence where you first met them.

Pick something at your level.

Every story is tagged, so you can tell at a glance what’ll read easy and what’ll push you a little.

Read with a hand nearby.

Your language sits right next to the original, paragraph for paragraph. No five browser tabs, no losing your place.

Practice the words you kept.

The words you tapped come back as exercises, timed so you see them again right before you’d forget.

Reader

Real writing, without the part where you drown in it.

The original’s on the left, your language is on the right, and the story keeps moving. You’re not decoding it word by word. You’re reading it, the way you read anything, and following along.

The deal: you open Pararead for a story you wanted to read, and you close it knowing a few words you didn’t this morning.

Pararead reader showing source and translation together.

Both languages, paragraph next to paragraph. A hard word doesn’t stop you cold, because the meaning’s right there.

Saved word page showing the sentence where the word appeared.

A saved word doesn’t go it alone. The sentence, the meaning, and the moment you read it stay stuck to it.

Context memory

A word is easier to remember when it remembers where it lived.

Tap a word and Pararead keeps the whole sentence with it. So when it shows up again, you’re not staring at a lonely translation. You see the phrase, you remember the story, and it clicks.

There’s a gap between piling up vocabulary and knowing a word when you bump into it next week. This closes it.

Practice

Exercises built from your reading, not somebody’s flashcard deck.

Every word you saved becomes a quick exercise: translate it, place it in a phrase, recognize it again. It feels familiar because you picked the story it came from in the first place.

Asked with the sentence right there

The exercise shows you the line the word came from, so your memory has a hook to grab.

Brought back at the right moment

Words come back just before they’d slip away. It never tips over into homework.

Word detail with context and collocations.

Pararead news screen with level-matched articles.

Pararead stories screen with level-matched story cards.

Fresh material

You open it to study. You stay because the story’s good.

Short news, stories, and odd little facts, all matched to your level. The reason to come back is the reading itself, which holds up better than a row of flame emojis ever did.

NewsStoriesFacts

Comfort readYour level

Stretch readA step up

CEFR for most languages, JLPT for Japanese, HSK for Chinese, TOPIK for Korean.

Language pairs

15 languages, with your own one always next to it.

Read the language you’re learning and keep the language you trust right beside it. Pick whichever pair you want, and nudge the level up or down whenever it feels off.

ArabicChineseDutchEnglishFrenchGermanHindiItalianJapaneseKoreanPolishPortugueseSpanishTurkishUkrainian

FAQ

A few things worth knowing before you start.

Free vs Premium?

Free is enough to build the habit: a set amount of new reading each day and a limit on how many words you can keep. Premium lifts both, so you can read as much as you like and save every word.

What if I drop it after two weeks?

Honestly, that’s the thing it’s built to survive. It’s made around what you read, not a list of tasks to finish. The news and stories keep changing, so opening it feels like catching up on something, not feeding a habit tracker that guilts you.

Which languages?

Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.

Do I need an account and internet?

Yes to both. Pararead runs online so the reading stays current and your saved words follow you between devices. You make an account the first time you open it, and you’re reading a minute later.

What level do I need?

Whatever you’ve got. It figures out roughly where you are when you start, then keeps the reading close to that. Too easy or too hard? Change the level whenever you want.

Get started

Start reading the real world in your new language today.

Two languages side by side. Words saved with the sentence that taught them. Practice that comes straight from what you read.

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