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Verbally is the all-in-one immersion tool for language learners who are ready to move past Duolingo and courses, into the real language.
Most learners hit a wall after the app phase. The next step is real content, the articles, blogs and news that native speakers actually read, but raw native content feels too steep and progress stalls. Verbally is the level up. It turns any web page into immersion you can actually follow.
Here is how it works. You listen to the page in the language you are learning, in real, natural voices, while a synced translation stays underneath as your safety net. The audio is always the language you are learning, so you train your ear and your reading at the same time. There is no copy-pasting between a translator tab and a separate read-aloud tool. It all happens on the page you are already reading.
Verbally is more than read-aloud. Save the words you meet while reading and review them later as flashcards, so vocabulary from real content actually sticks. Take a quick comprehension quiz on what you read, scaled to your level, to check that you understood it.
Think of it as subtitles for the web. You listen in the original language, you read along in yours, and the real world becomes your classroom.
Available in 9 languages: Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew and Greek.
Verbally-Reader
ReadlangVerbally-Reader's answer
Verbally is built for one moment: the wall you hit after Duolingo and courses, when native content still feels too steep. Instead of another app with its own walled garden, it turns the real web, the news, blogs and articles you already read, into immersion you can actually follow. Listening and reading together, vocabulary you save from real content, and comprehension checks, all in one place. The original language stays the main signal, so you pick up the language itself, not just the gloss. It is the level up, not another beginner app.
Verbally-Reader's answer
Most tools do one half of the job. Read-aloud extensions read a page but do not translate it. Translators give you the meaning but kill the original language. Verbally does both at once, on the page you are already reading. You listen in the language you are learning while a synced translation sits underneath as a safety net. Keeping the original audio as the main signal is what makes it a learning tool, not a shortcut. Add words you save as flashcards and quick comprehension quizzes, and it becomes an all-in-one immersion tool instead of a single trick.
Verbally-Reader's answer
Intermediate and up learners, roughly B1 and above, who have outgrown flashcard apps and want to spend real time inside the language. Expats reading the local news, self taught learners tackling native content, and bilingual readers keeping a second language alive. The common thread: people who can read a little but lose the thread in real content, and want natural audio plus a translation safety net while they do it. It is not aimed at absolute beginners or at accessibility users who are not learning the language.
Verbally-Reader's answer
Verbally started with a personal plateau. After moving to the Netherlands, the maker got to a decent level of Dutch and then stalled. The apps had run their course, but real Dutch news and articles were still a slog. What finally helped was listening to a page while reading along, with a translation ready for the moment a word slipped past. Doing that by hand meant juggling a text to speech tab and a translator tab on every article. Verbally collapses that into the page you are already on, so the real web becomes the place you practice.
Verbally-Reader's answer
Verbally is a Chrome extension built on Manifest V3. The read-aloud voices and the translation run in the cloud rather than on your device, so audio quality and translation do not depend on your machine. It works on any standard web page, with no setup per page.
Based on our record, Readlang seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 53 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
AFAIK, I think the most popular version of this idea is https://readlang.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
In my own case, I struggled for over a decade, to get anywhere at all useful with Spanish, until someone in this forum recommended readlang.com. I can't speak for anyone else, but for myself: just reading entire stories, as fast as I could, without stopping AT ALL when I ran into an unknown word, or tense, or idiom, made THE critical difference. Before that, every second word was causing me to stop. And... Source: almost 3 years ago
If you're going to do this, why not just use something like the free tier of ReadLang? Source: about 3 years ago
Readlang, but you have to have a basic vocabulary; otherwise it is not easy. Https://readlang.com/ I've had a love and hate relationship with Duolingo for Dutch and French. I'm trying it for Greek now and it seems to have improved over the last few years. Source: about 3 years ago
I think https://readlang.com/ is similar to LingQ and hast the option to upload files - I have never used it though, so no guarantee the formatting is better. Source: about 3 years ago
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