A team of Ukrainian startups has created a service for learning foreign languages through systematic reading between tasks. The developers claim that they squeezed all the possibilities out of the platform to create the ReadEd Telegram bot.
A team of Ukrainian startups has created a service for learning foreign languages through systematic reading between tasks. The developers claim that they squeezed all the possibilities out of the platform to create the ReadEd Telegram bot.
«We transform daily content consumption — news, articles, blogs — into a process of language development. The goal of ReadEd is to turn reading from a passive action into an active practice that simultaneously broadens horizons and strengthens language skills,» explains project co-founder Maksym Merkulov.
ReadEd is an app for learning languages through adapted and personalized reading. The goal of ReadEd is to transform reading from a passive activity into an active practice that simultaneously broadens horizons and strengthens language skills.
The service offers users daily adapted texts in different formats (full, simplified, abbreviated). The user chooses their language level and topics (business, culture, science, etc.). After reading, comprehension and vocabulary consolidation tests are available
This is how the habit of reading is formed, which improves language skills between tasks.
ReadEd is designed for people who:
In June, ReadEd was launched into wide testing. «Two months from idea to MVP, which we made as quickly as we made it qualitatively. I am happy because the ReadEd MVP is exactly as we planned it, even a little better. We wanted to be sure that users would be able to use ReadEd, even at the prototype level, as a real educational product, so we spent dozens of hours decomposing the requirements of the CEFR framework in order to make really high-quality text adaptation and test generation. We didn’t want beautiful landing pages, thousands of dollars in marketing budgets — instead, we spent time working on text formatting, improving the feedback system when completing the task, and endless tests to make everything work as stably as possible,» said Merkulov.
Maxim is sure that the team squeezed all the possibilities out of the Telegram platform to make the most convenient bot he has ever used. «I am sure that many people are reading this text with an ironic smile now — I would read it the same way. Because what difference does it make how carefully you prepared for the launch if your hypothesis fails. It’s true, there is no difference. Therefore, we put our rose-colored glasses away and understand that this is only the beginning of the journey — we are ready to fall, so that we can get up later. We are ready to hear bad feedback in order to build a really cool application in the future,» he explained.
ReadEd is now completely free just so that everyone can come in, try it out, and give feedback to the developers.
