Free graded readers with a word-by-word translation

Learn a language by reading. Versorum shows a text and its translation side by side and links them word by word, so you can read something slightly beyond you without stopping every sentence to look a word up. Click any word in either language and its counterpart lights up in the other.

Where an expression does not map word for word, Versorum keeps it as one unit and gives the literal reading underneath. That is the difference between a translation you can interrogate and one you have to trust.

What you can do with it

• Read by level. 682 graded passages and dialogues from A0 to C2, free and without an account. Browse the reading catalog.
• Listen while you read. Native-speaker audio for whole sentences and for single words.
• Bring your own text. Paste an article, a chapter or song lyrics and Versorum aligns your own material the same way.
• Check the grammar. Concise reference guides for 16 languages, written in 26 languages. Grammar guides.
• Drill the vocabulary. Six word games built from what you meet while reading. Word games.

Reading help beyond the translation

Japanese text carries furigana and romaji, Chinese carries pinyin, and Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Korean and Greek carry a romanized reading, so a script you cannot yet read is not a wall.

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