How to read on LeftLingo

Tip 1

Four sections, one habit

News, satire, travel and stories – all different types of stories, added to daily to encourage you to come back over and over.

Tip 2

Pick a story

Select any headline to drill down to the full story.

Tip 3

Your other language

The muted line under that same headline is the title in your other language – a preview of how the whole story reads.

Tip 1

Hear a sentence

Tap the speaker at the end of any sentence to hear it read aloud.

Tip 2

Listen to more

The button at the start of a paragraph plays the whole paragraph. Free readers get one paragraph a day; Plus plays every paragraph and adds a bar above the story that plays it all from the top.

Tip 3

Tap a sentence

Tap any sentence to see it in your other language. Tap it again to study the words.

Tip 4

The study drawer

The second tap opens the drawer: every word glossed, verbs conjugated, the grammar explained.

Tip 5

Explain the grammar

In the drawer, ask for the one grammar point this sentence is built on. A Plus feature — free on this story.

Tip 6

Ask about a sentence

Type your own question — "is tutti e due the same as both?" — and get an answer in plain English. Plus, free here.

Tip 7

Was it worth your time?

At the end of every story, tell the desks what worked. It shapes what gets written next.