Why We Just Shipped Generated Texts (and How They Work)

The missing half of input

LinguaDi started with conversations. Pick a topic, pick a level, and get a two-person dialog you can read, listen to, and learn from. That covers speaking and listening practice — the skills most apps ignore.

But there was a gap. Real learners do not only speak; they also read. Reading is where you meet vocabulary naturally repeated, grammar structures you can absorb at your own pace, and ideas you actually care about. It is quiet practice — no headphones needed, no pressure to respond — and it compounds: the more you read, the more the dialogs and conversations start to feel easy.

The problem was that graded reading material is hard to get right. Textbooks pick the topics for you. News articles are written for native speakers. Simple Wikipedia exists for about 20% of topics, in one language. Nothing gave you your topic at your level on demand.

What shipped today

The generator now has a Dialog | Text switch. Flip it to Text and you get a reading text instead of a conversation:

• Any topic — type what you are curious about, or pick from new curiosity-driven suggestions like “Why time zones look so strange” or “The science of fermentation”
• Your level — from beginner-friendly to upper-intermediate, vocabulary and sentence complexity adapt to you
• Facts, not filler — the texts are written to teach you something new about the topic: specific details, comparisons, causes and effects, not vague generalities
• Everything works as before — professional audio, tap-to-translate, sentence translations, comprehension questions, and flashcards all work on texts exactly like on dialogs

Available in all 25 languages LinguaDi supports, in every difficulty level.

How we decided what it should be

Building this raised two questions we want to be transparent about, because our answers shaped the feature.

Same feature, new mode — not a separate product. We considered building a separate “Reader” area. We decided against it. You should not have to learn a new interface to read a text. The switch lives in the generator you already use, next to the topic picker you already know.

One credit, same price. A text costs exactly what a dialog costs: your free daily generation first, then one credit. We think reading is as fundamental as listening — pricing it differently would just get in the way. We are watching how people use texts, and we will decide later whether heavy readers get subscription perks.

One more decision worth mentioning: texts never suggest conversation topics, and dialogs never suggest essay topics. “At the post office” makes a great dialog and a terrible article. When you switch to text mode, the topic suggestions become subjects worth learning about.

A reading routine that works

If you already use LinguaDi daily, adding texts is a two-minute change to your routine:

One dialog and one text per day is a complete input diet: speaking and listening from the dialog, vocabulary and reading fluency from the text.

What’s next

This is the first version. We are watching two things closely: which topics people type in, and whether the fact-driven texts hit the mark at every level. One honest caveat — the texts are AI-generated, so double-check a fact before you repeat it at a dinner party.

Next up for texts: style options (a story, an explainer, a listicle-style breakdown), longer texts for advanced levels, and letting you steer how the facts are framed. If something feels off, tell us — this feature was built fast and we want it shaped by the people using it.