reading app · interlinear glossing
Natives don't build a sentence word by word. They download whole packages at once. Linguists call those packages formulaic sequences. Interlinear glossing is the technique that makes them visible, and only LingoTide brings it to you.
LingoTide is a high-context reader that unlocks comprehensible input for complete beginners up to intermediate.
free to start · no card required
This morning I went to the market in my neighborhood.
On Saturdays there are always a lot of people.
First I bought fruit. Apples, oranges, and a melon.
The lady at the stall gave me some grapes.
No grammar rules. No rote memorising. You start seeing what natives see, and an internal map builds itself. Package by package, you're building your own.
Click any word and its whole sequence lights up, in the original and the translation at once. You map it in a second. Your immersion never breaks.
the transcript’s tools · every language
Pinyin over Chinese, transliteration under Arabic, the full translation for German — with the same colour linking every word to its meaning, and hover any word to light up what it maps to. Same tools, one tap, whatever the script. Watch them resolve.
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The whole method is the reading — tap a word for its meaning, see a fixed phrase as one chunk, and read the grammar in context. Here they are, open, actual size.
Tap any word for its meaning and a note on the form, then keep it with one tap — the audio pronounces it too.
La señora me regaló unas uvas.
Fixed expressions and collocations are marked as one chunk — its real meaning and when to use it, in the teal phrases layer.
Esta mañana fui al mercado.
esta mañanaPatterns are marked right where they appear — the conjugation, its shape, and a worked example drawn from the episode itself.
Je parle un peu français.
present -er verbsafter the episode
Close a story and make it stick: say the lines back out loud and check yourself against the model answer, look over the words you kept, and take them anywhere — a real Anki deck, one click.
say this in japanese
The lady gave me some grapes.
Say it out loud in your own words — then reveal the model line to check yourself.
4 saved
A passive reference — no review queue, no scheduling. Kept from the words and grammar you tapped as you read.
Prefer your own spaced-repetition app? Export what you kept as a native deck.
One click downloads a real .apkg — double-click to import into Anki Desktop, AnkiDroid or AnkiMobile. Base → target, the reading kept, the category as a tag; stable IDs mean a re-export updates your cards, never duplicates.
Every language is explained in English. One subscription opens all of them; start free with five minutes of listening a day, no card required.
Press play on any story and read along — five minutes a day are free. That’s the whole idea.
six languages · one subscription