I built this for myself first.

For years I've been trying to do two things at the same time: read more books and learn languages. Everyone gives the same advice: read books in the language you're learning. It's good advice, but it skips over the hardest part. Finding a book you actually want to read that's also at a level you can actually understand is incredibly difficult. Early on you're basically stuck with children's books, and there's only so many of those you can read before you get bored and give up.

I also wanted to be able to listen while I read. I follow books much better when someone is reading them to me, and I think language input needs to be understandable if it's going to help. That means the voice matters. Not something robotic that's just reading words out loud, but something natural enough that your brain starts picking up the rhythm and sound of the language while you're still working through the text.

Then there are verbs and vocabulary. They've beaten me in every language I've tried to learn. I never saw those as separate problems from reading, but every app treats them like they are. You read in one app, practice flashcards in another, and study conjugations somewhere else.

I also wanted something for my kids. I didn't just want to hand them an app and hope for the best. I wanted to see where they were struggling so I could actually help them. That's where supervised mode came from. It wasn't about locking things down. It was about giving parents enough insight to help when it's needed.

So I built the app I wished existed. Real books that can be translated to your level. Natural-sounding audio that you actually want to listen to. Instant word definitions and verb conjugations without leaving the page. And enough visibility into a learner's progress to be genuinely useful. I built it because I wanted it for myself. It ended up working for me, and since then I've just been refining it until it was ready for everyone else.