Language learning through reading
Learn vocabulary by reading what you actually want to read.
Verbatio helps you learn vocabulary in a new language through your own books, PDFs, and websites - with a built-in dictionary, flashcards, and pre-reading word lists. All offline.
What it does
Everything you need to read in a new language
Read anything
EPUB, PDF, web pages, and OCR-scanned text - all in one place, in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Polish.
Learn before you read
Before opening a chapter, Verbatio identifies the hardest words in the text and lets you learn them first. Fewer interruptions while you read.
Flashcards that stick
Create flashcards in context from any word you look up. The spaced-repetition system is designed to avoid review pile-ups - and includes exercises built from your own words.
Fully offline
No internet required. Dictionary packs, documents, and review sessions work anywhere - on a plane, in a library, wherever you read.
The researcher behind it
Prof. Dariusz Jemielniak
Kozminski University / Faculty associate, Harvard / Vice-president, Polish Academy of Sciences
Verbatio was created by Professor Dariusz Jemielniak of Kozminski University - faculty associate at Harvard, vice-president of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a Wikimedia Foundation trustee for a decade. Dariusz has been studying second language acquisition for 25 years. He published a bestselling English grammar textbook in 2003, a glossary of common English errors in 2004, and around 15 language self-learning textbooks over the years. He co-edited the largest English-Polish dictionary in the known multiverse.
He also founded the largest online portal for English learners in Poland, angielski.edu.pl, the largest online dictionary in Poland, ling.pl, and co-founded InstaLing, a teacher support platform now used by 13% of language teachers in Polish public schools. An avid Duolingo user (900-day streak in the diamond league and counting), he found himself with new language skills and nowhere good to use them. None of the reading support apps let him read what he actually wanted. So he built Verbatio.
Vocabulary is not memorized. It is encountered, repeatedly, in context - until it becomes yours.