GraduReadHow it works
Six things, each with an example. Three of the examples are live: tap the marked word and use the buttons, exactly as on the reading page.
The book starts in English. Words it repeats often switch to Italian, with the meaning above them the first two times. When a word feels familiar you tap it and keep it, and it stays Italian from then on. Any word can be put back in English, and any English word you already know can be switched by hand.
Questions people ask
- Which languages?
- English books, shifting into Italian. More languages will follow.
- Will this make me fluent?
- No single thing does. GraduRead grows the number of words you can read without stopping, inside a story you want to read anyway. A short book may leave you with a hundred new words; a long one, or several, with many more. Speaking and grammar still need practice elsewhere.
- What does it cost?
- Reading the books on this site is free. The Mac app, which prepares your own books, is in private testing; see the Mac app page for what preparing a book costs.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes. The reading page works in a phone’s browser. An iPhone and iPad app is planned.
- Where is my progress kept?
- In your browser, on your device. There are no accounts yet, so it does not follow you to another device, and clearing this site’s data in your browser clears it. The library’s settings (the gear) can save a backup file and restore from one.
- Is the Italian correct?
- It is prepared with AI and matched to the original sentence by sentence. Native speakers have not reviewed all of it yet, so you may meet an odd phrase. Tell us when you do.
- Can I read my own books?
- On a Mac, yes, with GraduRead for Mac. On the web and on iPhone, not yet.