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Similect teaches a language through reading and watching. The feed gives you short materials in the language you are learning, one per screen: film clips, retold books, everyday dialogues, news and exercises. Tap any word you do not know and the translation appears right there, while the app quietly learns which words you already know and adjusts what it shows you next.

Most of it is prepared by our team with the help of AI: clips cut from films with their subtitles, well-known books retold shorter page by page, dialogues for everyday situations, a daily news story written in plain language, and translation exercises for individual words. Translations, word explanations, pronunciation and difficulty are also produced with AI and checked by the app. Registered users can publish their own texts and videos too.

Right now: English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian. Translations and word explanations come in your native language, which you choose in Settings.

No, you can start straight away. Without an account you can open a few materials and look up a few words a day, enough to see whether it suits you. Signing in keeps the words you have opened, remembers your language and level on every device, and starts a 3-day trial with everything unlocked.

Yes, the feed is free to use. After the trial the free plan keeps reading and watching open and gives you a set of lookups and translations; the subscription removes those limits and adds statistics, your word list and full history. Details are below, under Subscription and limits.

It is picked for you rather than sorted by date. Most materials are chosen so that you already know most of their words and meet a few new ones; some are a little easier to reinforce what you know, some a little harder to stretch you. On top of that the feed brings back words you looked up a few days ago, continues the series you started, and learns which kinds of material you actually finish.

Videos: short film clips and uploads with subtitles you can tap. Books: known books retold shorter, one page per screen. Situations: dialogues for the places you actually end up in, from the doctor to the airport. News: one real story of the day, written for your level. Tasks: sentences to translate built around one word.

A task is a short list of sentences built around one word. Translate each sentence in your head, then press Reveal to check yourself, and Listen to hear it. You can switch the direction: from the language you learn, into it, or a random mix.

Open the menu on the card (the three dots) and choose Watch in playlist: the whole collection opens in order. The feed also remembers where you stopped and offers the next part when you come back.

Browsers do not allow sound before you have interacted with a page, so the first video may start muted. Tap the sound button on the video once and the choice is remembered.

Texts, news and tasks can have a calm background track. It is quiet by default; the volume slider and the mute button are in the card menu (the three dots), and your choice is remembered.

Tap it — in a text, a subtitle or a task. A hint shows the translation, the transcription and a button to hear it. The arrow opens the full card: every meaning with examples, synonyms, word forms and the whole sentence you tapped with its translation.

Yes. In the card menu (the three dots), Show translation shows the whole text in your language, and for videos Translate subtitles adds a translation line under every subtitle. Subtitle translation is a viewing setting: switched on once, it stays on for every video until you switch it off.

Press the play button again: the second time the word or sentence plays slower, the third time at normal speed again.

To My words, on the Progress page. Every tapped word lands in Learning. A word moves to Known by itself once you have met it enough times, or you can move it yourself — a limited number of times per word, so the list stays honest.

No. The words you looked up as a guest move into your word list when you sign in, as long as analytics cookies are allowed: the word list is built from the same data.

There are five: A1 Beginner, A2 Elementary, B1 Intermediate, B2 Upper Intermediate and C1+ Advanced. They follow the familiar CEFR scale, with the top two levels joined into one.

It starts from the level you chose and then watches what you do. Words you tap count as unknown, words in the same sentences that you did not need to tap count as known. Your level is the deepest band of vocabulary you reliably know. A higher level is only counted after you have shown it across several materials and several days, not in one lucky evening.

Keep reading and tapping honestly: the estimate needs taps to work with, and material you read without tapping anything tells it nothing. You can also change your starting level at any time in Settings.

Your level on the scale and how close you are to the next one, how much you have read and watched by type, reading volume, time spent in the feed and the number of sessions — each with a chart over time and separately for every language you learn.

Reading and watching stay open. The free plan also gives you a set of 20 word lookups, 10 subtitle translations, 5 text translations and 10 task hints. When any of them runs out, all of them rest for 120 minutes and then start again from full.

No limits on lookups and translations, the Progress page with statistics, My words, your full history and likes, video in the best available quality and materials marked for subscribers.

€7.99 a month, or €49.99 a year — the yearly plan is the cheaper way.

Yes. Every new account gets 3 days with everything unlocked, with no card required. After that the account simply moves to the free plan.

Settings → Subscription → Manage. There you can cancel, change the card and download invoices. Access stays until the end of the period you have paid for; nothing is charged after that.

Access opens the moment you pay, and at checkout you confirm that this ends the 14-day right of withdrawal. If something does not work as promised, write to us and we will sort it out.

With one of the accounts offered on the sign-in screen, such as Google, or with your email: we send a one-time code, so there is no password to remember.

In Settings. You can learn several languages: the feed, the level and the statistics are kept separately for each of them.

Yes, the site is built for phones first. To open it like an app, choose Add to Home Screen in your browser menu.

Settings → Accounts → Delete. Your profile and publications disappear right away, and for 30 days you can still restore everything from the same page. After that the data is erased for good.

Yes. Settings → Get a copy of your data gives you one file with your profile, settings, publications and comments.

The app still works, but it stops learning from you: no history, no word list, no progress statistics and no personal picks in the feed. The choice can be changed at any time in Settings → Cookies and analytics.

Open its menu (the three dots) and choose Report, then pick the reason. Reports need an account and are reviewed by our team.

Yes: texts, videos with subtitles and translation tasks, grouped into your own collections. Before publishing you confirm that you have the rights to the material. After publishing, the app splits it into words, translates it and gives it a level automatically.

Everything you create starts as a draft that only you can see, under Profile → Drafts. Publish it when it is ready; if the automatic check finds a problem, the draft comes back to you with the reason.

A publication can be deleted 14 days after it went out, and a collection once it is 14 days old. Other learners may be in the middle of it, and a material that vanishes an hour later breaks their feed and their history.

Write to main.office@similect.com and tell us what happened, ideally with a link to the page.