Simply Fluent
Your next reader is learning your language
People learning a language want to read the novels its native speakers read. Simply Fluent helps them read one, sentence by sentence. We are building a bookshop inside the app for those books, and we are looking for the authors who write them.
La carta
Aquella noche Elena no pudo dormirsleep. Se quedó junto a la ventana, escuchando la lluviarain, y pensó en la carta que había escondidohidden en el cajóndrawer de la cocina. Nadie sabía que existía. Mañana tendría que contárselo a su hermanobrother, y no tenía ni idea de cómo empezar.
Books for learners stop long before a novel starts
Books written for learners use a fixed list of words. A survey of English graded readers found very few above the 3,000-word vocabulary level. Reading a novel for native speakers without help takes a vocabulary of 8,000 to 9,000 word families (a word and its related forms, such as read, reads and reading).
Between graded readers and novels there is a gap. Simply Fluent is made for that gap: a learner translates any word or phrase and sees the meaning it has in that sentence, so they can read a book written for native speakers well before they know every word in it. What they need then are books worth reading.
Today the Simply Fluent library is short stories written with AI and classics rewritten in modern language with AI. None of it is by a living author, so no author is paid for it. The bookshop is how we change that.
Graded readers: Claridge (2012), a survey of English graded reader series, counted in headwords. Novels: Nation (2006), counted in word families. The units differ, so read the gap as a matter of size, not an exact count.
Good for learners, good for authors
Books worth reading
In the bookshop: novels and stories by living authors, in the language the learner is learning, with the translation of any word or phrase on every page.
All of it, in your words
Your text, as you wrote it
Nothing in the book is simplified or rewritten. Learners read the same sentences a native speaker reads.
Translation of any word or phrase
A reader translates a word or a phrase and sees all its meanings, with the one it has in that sentence highlighted.
Saved translations are shown in every book
When a learner saves a translation, it is shown above that word or phrase in every book they read in that language, until they mark it as memorized.
Read aloud
A learner can have the page read out loud by their phone's own voice, so they hear your sentences while they read them. Read-aloud works offline.
Your book, your price
- 85%
- Your share of every sale, after VAT and card fees.
- Your price
- You decide what the book costs.
- Non-exclusive
- Keep selling the book everywhere you sell it now.
- Downloads
- You decide whether buyers can download the book as a DRM-free EPUB marked with their name, or read it only in Simply Fluent.
Books must be written by people. We do not accept books generated by AI.
These terms are not final. We are working them out with the first authors who sign up, and we will settle them together.
The bookshop is not open yet
We are building it now and talking to the first authors, so there are books to buy on the day it opens.
Apply as an authorI have met authors writing in many languages, and I keep seeing the same thing: authors struggle to find readers, and learners struggle to find books in the language they are learning. I want Simply Fluent to bring the two together.
MarcoFounder of Simply Fluent
