Learn Languages Through Real News
Read real news articles, rewritten for your level. Click any word for an instant translation. Build vocabulary naturally.
Nach wochenlangen Verhandlungen zwischen den Koalitionsparteien hat sich die Lage deutlich verändert. Die Regierung hat neue Maßnahmen gegen den Klimawandel angekündigt. Kritiker bezeichnen die Pläne als unzureichend. Experten fordern weitergehende Schritte.
Real news at your level
Every day, fresh German news articles rewritten for each of the six CEFR levels. Pick your language, pick your level, start reading.
Everything you need to learn through reading
A smarter way to acquire a language through context, not memorization.
Real News, Real Learning
Read actual news articles from sources around the world. No textbook dialogues, learn from content that matters.
Adapted to Your Level
Every article is rewritten for each CEFR level from A1 to C2. Start easy and progress at your own pace.
Click Any Word
Tap any word you don't know and see its translation instantly. Context-aware translations powered by DeepL.
Build Your Vocabulary
Save words you learn and practice them with spaced-repetition flashcards. Context sentences included.
How it works
Three simple steps to start learning through real-world content.
Choose your news
Browse articles from trusted sources, automatically translated into your target language and rewritten at the difficulty you choose.
Read at your level
Each article is available at multiple CEFR levels. Pick the one that challenges you without overwhelming you.
Grow naturally
As you read more, your vocabulary expands and your comprehension deepens. Track your progress over time.
Your vocabulary, woven into a story.
Watch the words you save on Lexikal arrange themselves into a short German reading at your level, right in the browser, no sign-up.
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Current state and roadmap
Lexikal is an ongoing research project. Here's what's running today and what's coming next, so readers and curious observers can judge what the product can already do and what's still open.
In production today
- Production prompt v5 with line-by-line references to CV 2018 §3.4 descriptors and Goethe exam specifications.
- Every A1 and B1 output is automatically checked against the Goethe word lists. Out-of-band tokens are logged per article.
- Mediation protocol per CV 2018 §2.5: when a topic can't be honestly rendered at A1/A2 for lexical reasons, Lexikal produces a compact gist with 3–5 key words and definitions instead of inventing false A1 prose.
In active development
- An automated review loop that scores each version against curated reference passages from publicly-available parallel corpora for simplified German and against Goethe-calibrated passages from Deutsche Welle's language-learning section.
- Expanding the reference corpus to more than 2,600 labelled passages. A sturdier measurement base than the original small set of hand-curated anchors.
- An independent classifier layer that cross-checks each generated level based on statistical patterns (sentence length, syntactic branching, vocabulary breadth).
Open questions
- External validation by DaF-qualified language teachers. Evaluation-set infrastructure is in place; rater recruitment is the next step.
- Ongoing publication of the actual measurements (per-level MAE, out-of-band rate, divergence between independent check layers). Transparency over certification.
Questions, critique, or interested in a technical exchange? We welcome messages, especially from applied linguists, German-language teachers, and NLP researchers.