Read Spanish, French, Japanese and more in the original — and actually get every page. Hard words are translated right above the line, a tap on any word explains it in context, and every book can be listened to as well as read.Canada runs on two languages, from the cereal box to the stop signs in Quebec — but for most of us, French immersion faded out around Grade 9. Reader IQ makes that school French real again, one real book at a time, or gets you started fresh in Spanish, Japanese, whatever's next.
BOOKS THAT SPEAK. AUDIOBOOKS YOU CAN READ.
Focus mode turns any book into a listening lesson — no audio edition needed. It reads any e-book aloud sentence by sentence and highlights each word as it's spoken. For supported language pairs on compatible devices, it shows full-sentence subtitles; otherwise, word translations remain available. Tap any word for the dictionary without stopping the audio — handy on a long winter commute, hands on the wheel.
On compatible devices and systems, where the book's language and speech model are supported, on-device transcription turns audiobook speech into word-synced text with translated subtitles; otherwise, the audiobook still plays normally. Listening time counts toward shared time, streak, and goal totals.
YOUR BOOKS, MANY FORMATS
No fixed shelf that runs dry two weeks in — import from email, cloud storage, messaging apps, or the browser:
- Books: EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW3, TXT, Markdown and more
- Research and scans: PDF and DjVu — scanned pages read with on-device recognition
- Comics: CBZ, including right-to-left manga
- Audiobooks: m4b, mp3 and more
TRANSLATIONS ABOVE THE LINE — ONLY WHERE YOU NEED THEM
Tell Reader IQ your level, or take a two-minute test, and it translates only the words you don't already know, right above the line. You read for meaning instead of decoding, hints thinning out as you grow — further than that old French binder ever got.
A DICTIONARY THAT UNDERSTANDS CONTEXT
Tap any word: an on-device model reads the sentence around it and selects the most likely meaning — French "temps" may mean weather in one line and time in the next. Pronunciation, word forms, examples, conjugation tables for eight languages, kanji and hanzi broken down stroke by stroke. Once downloaded, all on your device and available offline — handy the moment you lose signal on a road trip or at the cottage.
A GRADED PATH FROM YOUR FIRST WORDS
Adapted books and a graded path of short stories take you from your first words to longer texts, each step adding just a few new words to what you know. Read-along speech, quizzes and repeat readings lock it in — gentler than immersion class ever was.
SPACED REPETITION, STRAIGHT FROM YOUR BOOKS
Every word you tap is saved with the sentence it came from, and that sentence becomes your flashcard. Four modes: recognition, fill-in-the-blank from your own books, listening, typed recall. Meet a saved word again while reading and it moves forward on its own — the reading is the review. Track how much of each level, A1 to C2, you've met, and export your words any time.
GOALS, STREAKS AND ABOUT 40 AWARDS
Set a daily reading goal and keep the streak going with a weekly ring and a calendar heatmap. Long winters were made for this — set a word-count goal for the season and watch it close in.
10 READING LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, Thai — French and Spanish right at home for anyone who grew up next to both. Pinyin with tone colours, furigana and vertical Japanese, Thai tone marks, beginner modes if the script's new to you. Translations into 30-plus languages.
Reading in the original is the most natural way to learn a language. Reader IQ clears out what got in the way the first time — dictionary detours, books too hard, words that never stuck. Open your first one tonight.
