Verbeli

All the news, slightly foreign.

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The café where nobody studies, and everybody learns

How a few borrowed words a day quietly add up to a whole language.

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Every morning, the old café on Mill Street fills with people who read the news over coffee. Nobody there is studying. Yet week by week, the regulars are picking up a new language, one word at a time.

“You still understand the sentence. That is the whole trick.”

It works like this. A few words on the page quietly change. You still understand the sentence, so your brain works out the meaning on its own. Tomorrow the same word appears again, and by Friday it feels like yours.

That is all Verbeli does. It reads the web alongside you and leaves a few doors open into another language. The more words you know, the more it swaps, so the page grows with you instead of waiting for you to find time for lessons.

No lessons. No streaks.

Verbeli is a browser extension. It works on the news, blogs and docs you already read, in 11 languages, and runs on your device.

How it works

i.

Start at your level

A two-minute check finds roughly how many words you already know, so Verbeli starts just past them, not at “hello”.

ii.

Read as usual

A small, steady share of words is swapped on every page. Hover one to see the original and mark it known, hard or wrong.

iii.

Words graduate

Spaced repetition decides when each word comes back. Words you know retire, and new ones take their place.

Subscriptions

Free edition

$0

forever

  • All 11 languages, any direction
  • Level check and spaced repetition
  • Works offline; your reading never leaves your browser

Premium

$4.99 / month

or $39 a year · 7-day free trial, no card

  • Words fit each sentence: you entiendes, not you entender
  • The right meaning for words like “bank” (money or river?)
  • Cancel any time, 14-day money-back guarantee

Get it

Coming soon

Verbeli is on its way to Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

The store listings are in review. Questions, or want to try it early? Write to support@verbeli.com.