ReadNative: Learn by Reading

Learn a language by reading real stories, and actually finish them.

ReadNative is a graded reader app with 250+ books in 20 languages. Classics, folk tales and legends are retold from absolute beginner (A1, HSK 1) up toward B2 (up to HSK 6 for Chinese), so the text grows with you. Read short chapters at your own pace.

LEARN 20 LANGUAGES BY READING
Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Thai, Serbian, Georgian and Azerbaijani. Every language has its own library and reading path.

TAP ANY WORD TO TRANSLATE
Tap a word to see what it means in that sentence, not a list of ten dictionary options. Non-Latin scripts show romanization (pinyin for Chinese), so you can read Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Persian, Thai or Armenian from day one. Tap a sentence for a full translation.

BUILD VOCABULARY WITHOUT THE FLASHCARD GRIND
Every word you look up is saved. Review with spaced repetition (SRS) when you want, export to Anki, and watch your known-word count grow as words come back in new stories.

SHORT STORIES FOR BEGINNERS, GRADED READERS FOR INTERMEDIATE
Start with easy stories at A1 and move up level by level. Chinese books follow HSK levels. Heritage learners use ReadNative to reconnect with a family language: Greek, Armenian, Persian, Ukrainian, Hebrew and more.

FREE TO START
The first book in every language is free, and chapter 1 of every other book is free too. ReadNative Pro unlocks every chapter of every book and lets you import your own EPUB books to read with the same tap-to-translate tools.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Word meanings and translations are in English.
• Read-along audio is available on 7 books (six Chinese classics and one Georgian book); the others are text only.
• Offline reading: download a book and read it on a plane or a train.
• Also on iPhone, iPad and the web (web.readnative.org), with the same library when you sign in.

FOR TEACHERS
Teachers and heritage-language schools get Pro free: readnative.org/teachers

Pick a language, open the free book and read your first chapter today.