Read your first book in French.
Short stories built from the French you already know. A café mystery in Paris, folktales from Provence, a kitchen in Montréal.
A language built for the page.
French rewards readers more than almost any other major language. Its spelling keeps a thousand years of literary history, and its sentence rhythm is, famously, the rhythm of the essay. The trouble is that the distance between app French and reading Le Monde is vast, and the bridge has been missing.
ReadBilingual builds that bridge with short illustrated stories pitched at your level. Set it from the words you've learned, or take a quick placement quiz, and every story stays inside them, plus a small handful of new words introduced gently.
Tap any word to see what it means in that sentence. Then listen to the story read aloud and tune your ear to the French you're learning.
A reading level for every French learner
Just starting
About 250 core words. Présent. One or two characters, a single place.
Comfortable
About 800 core words. Passé composé and futur proche. Multi-chapter stories.
Conversational
About 2,000 core words. Imparfait, conditionnel, subjonctif. Full short stories with a subplot.
Independent
About 4,000 core words. Literary tenses and idiomatic dialogue. Novellas of 8 to 12 chapters.
Advanced
Modern French literature, at native level.
The classics
At C1 the canon opens up. From Camus to Ernaux, we'll show you where to start.
Commencez à lire ce soir.
Coming soon to iOS and Android. Your first story will be five minutes away.
