KaiReader – News & Vocabulary

Most language apps hand you sentences written for learners. KaiReader hands you this morning's newspaper. Pick the language you're learning and each day the app collects a short stack of real articles in it — a handful, not a feed. You read one over coffee. When a word stops you, tap it: the meaning appears in your language and the word goes into your own list. Japanese shows furigana above the kanji, Chinese shows pinyin, English shows IPA, so you're never guessing at how something sounds. If a whole paragraph won't give, flip on the translation for that paragraph and move on. Then the part most reading apps skip: say the word out loud. KaiReader listens and scores your pronunciation on the phone itself. Text-to-speech will read the article back to you as well, if you'd rather listen on the train. The words you saved don't just sit there. They come back as flashcards on a…