Editorial principles

Why we built this

Most people learn vocabulary the same way: they make a list, they drill, they forget. The drilled words rarely show up when you actually need them — in a conversation, in an article, in a movie. The reason is simple: words live inside context. What sticks isn't the word in isolation, it's the situation the word was used in.

So we started with a different question. What if you read a news story in your own language, and a few English words were quietly embedded inside it? You'd follow the story without effort, but you'd also pass the same English words again and again, in different sentences and different topics. After a while, you wouldn't have memorized them — you'd just know them.

How it works

1. Every few hours we pick the best world news of the day.
2. We rewrite each story in your language so it reads naturally — like any other newspaper article you'd read for fun.
3. Inside the rewritten text we embed English words and phrases that are worth knowing. They look slightly different so you can spot them without losing the flow.
4. Hover or tap any embedded word to flip it to your language. Tap again to flip it back. The space the word occupies never moves, so the article never jumps around.
5. That's it. The same words come back across different stories on different days. Your brain does the rest.

Why this helps

Language acquisition research has been saying the same thing for decades: people learn a language best from comprehensible input — material that's just slightly above their current level, made accessible by context. You don't learn by being tested. You learn by understanding.

News makes excellent input. Every day brings new vocabulary, used by real people writing about real events. These are exactly the words worth knowing — not invented textbook examples, but the language of the world as it actually happens.

What we do is small. We make sure that input doesn't overwhelm you. Your native language carries you through the article; English shows up only where it's worth your attention.

What we don't do

• We don't teach grammar rules. There are excellent grammar books for that.
• We don't quiz you. Tests turn reading into a chore, and chores don't last.
• We don't push you to finish every article. Stop whenever you're full. Come back tomorrow.
• We don't track what you click or how long you stayed on a word. We don't want to know, and we don't think we need to.

One last thing

We don't want this to feel like a learning site. We want it to feel like reading the morning paper, with English drifting in from the margins. When you close the tab, the thing we hope you remember is what's happening in the world — not how many words you "got." The English will follow, slowly and on its own time.