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Your app got you to B1.
Real pages still lose you.

Fluency doesn't come from finishing lessons. It comes from spending your days inside the language, in real authentic content you'd pick anyway.

An all-in-one language immersion tool.

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9 languages · built by a language learner

The session

1 piece of content. 4 language skills.
A 5-minute session.

Listening

Reading

Vocabulary

Understanding

You pick something you actually want to read, a news story, a recipe, a blog in your field. Verbally builds a whole language session around it: listen and read it in sync, save the words you meet, and check what you understood.

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The science · dual-coding

Hear it and read it at once, and it sticks.

It's called dual‑coding, a theory the psychologist Allan Paivio introduced in 1971, and decades of research since back it up. Your brain remembers a word far better when it hears and reads it in the same moment than from either alone. You've felt it watching subtitled shows.

You hear it
Het ijs is dik genoeg.
dik genoeg
"thick enough"
✦ It sticks
You read it
English · synced
"The ice is thick enough."
Tomer Katzir
About

I built Verbally Reader to break my own Dutch plateau after moving to the Netherlands. I speak four languages, three of them I learnt on my own, and I write about how adults actually learn, from experience. I'm not a scientist and never pretend to be. I explore a subject I love and make the research usable.

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Pricing

One plan. Less than a single tutoring hour.

Everything, one plan
✓Read-aloud in 9 languages
✓Live captions, synced to the audio
✓Personal dictionary
✓Quizzes from what you read
✓Flashcards with context
✓Dark, distraction-free overlay

A month of Verbally costs less than one hour with a tutor, and about a month of Duolingo Super. The difference is where the month goes: into real articles in the language you're learning, not another set of drills. Not cheap. Fair for what it does.

3-day free trial

$2.99 / month

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Do I have to sign up just to try it?
No. Install it and the real thing runs on a sample article: you hear it read aloud, see how saving words works, and take a comprehension quiz, all without an account. You only sign in when you want to point it at a page of your own.
Can't I just use Chrome's built-in read-aloud?
Chrome reads, but it doesn't translate, and the voices are flat. Verbally Reader pairs real text-to-speech with translated captions in sync. That's the whole point.
Why not just run Google Translate on the page?
Translation alone gives you the meaning but not the language. Verbally Reader keeps the original audio as the main signal, so you pick up the language instead of reading the gloss.
Which languages does it support?
Nine, as both the spoken and the caption language: Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, and Greek.
What sites does it work on?
Any web page with text: news, blogs, Substacks. (It doesn't read video, like YouTube.)
Is my reading data sent anywhere?
Page text is sent to our translation provider only to produce your captions. We don't store it, sell it, or share it. Full details in the privacy policy.
How do the trial and cancellation work?
You get 3 days free with just a Google sign-in, no card required. When the trial ends nothing is charged automatically; you only pay if you choose to subscribe. After that it's $2.99/month, cancel anytime from your Stripe customer portal.

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