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How it worksLibrary

Read at your level and collect words as you go

Short texts at your level, plus your own texts. Tap any word to see what it means and save it.

Each text matches your level. Tap a word or drag across a phrase to save it as a card with its sentence.

Try it freeHow to use it well

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Tap a word you don't know.

iknaarmijn.Het,ikhetniet.Nahetikmeteen.

Tap a highlighted word to see what it means.

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How to use it well

  1. Read a short text

    Five to ten minutes is enough.

  2. Save only useful words

    Pick words you would use yourself, two to five per text.

  3. Let practice do the rest

    Saved words join your reviews with the sentence you found them in.

Why it works

You need to know most of the words

Readers understand a text well when they already know about 98 percent of its words. Texts at your level keep you in that zone.

Source:Hu & Nation, 2000, Reading in a Foreign Language

Words you meet often get learned

In a one-month case study, a learner reading simple books picked up many of the words he met again and again, without studying them as lists.

Source:Pigada & Schmitt, 2006, Reading in a Foreign Language

The research behind it

Peer-reviewed studies this tool is built on. Tap a title to read the paper.

  1. ExperimentWebb, 2007
    The effects of repetition on vocabulary knowledge

    Applied Linguistics

    What they did
    Learners met new words in sentences 1, 3, 7 or 10 times.
    What they found
    The more often learners met a word, the more they knew about it, and even 10 meetings did not teach everything.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/applin/aml048
  2. Theory paperLaufer & Hulstijn, 2001
    Incidental vocabulary acquisition in a second language: The construct of task-induced involvement

    Applied Linguistics

    What they did
    Proposed a model of why some vocabulary tasks work better than others and tested it against earlier studies.
    What they found
    Words are remembered better when the learner has a real need for them and has to find and use them.
    Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/applin/22.1.1

The mistake most people make

Saving every unknown word

Do this instead

Fifty new cards from one text is too much. Save a few useful ones and keep reading.

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