When learning a language, it's really difficult to find content that is both engaging and at your level. To solve this problem, Lingofable is a mobile app that delivers short stories to you that you actually want to read (from sci-fi to r/AmITheJerk-style posts) at the perfect, pedagogically backed, ~98% comprehensibility! By tracking all of your vocab, we're able to dynamically adjust to your level as you read and improve.
We're college students studying Computer Science and Linguistics at Cornell, as well as a couple of language lovers! We built Lingofable to solve a problem we kept running into: finding content at that perfect i+1 level that's actually enjoyable. After all, there has to be a middle ground between Peppa Pig dubs and hardcore native movies (although to be honest, kids content is pretty tough!).
Simon reached C1 Mandarin in three years — turns out, binging xianxia webnovels counts as studying. On the other hand, my bookshelf is full of novels I'm slowly but surely working my way up to, and that's kind of why we built this. Our experiences have convinced us both that reading is the most underrated way to learn a language.
We hope Lingofable helps you on your own path to fluency!
Megan Yap