How we make our stories
LingoStories is made by a small team. Here is exactly how a story gets from an idea to the page, including the parts done by machines.
1. A first draft, written with AI
Each story starts as a draft written with the help of an AI model, to a brief: a CEFR level (A1, A2 or B1), a topic from everyday life, and the vocabulary and grammar a learner at that level knows. This is what lets a small team offer hundreds of stories in twelve languages for free.
2. Checked by language teachers
Every story is reviewed by a language teacher before it is published. The review looks for what AI gets wrong most often: phrases no native speaker would use, word-for-word translations, cultural details that don't fit, and sentences that are too hard for the level.
3. Graded and given questions
Stories are kept to the length and grammar of their level (roughly 20 to 35 sentences at A1, up to 100 at B1) and each one gets comprehension questions and a word list.
4. Translated sentence by sentence
Every story exists in all twelve languages, aligned sentence by sentence, so you can tap any word or sentence and see it in your own language.
5. Narrated with synthetic voices
The audio is generated with high-quality neural text-to-speech (Microsoft Azure and Amazon Polly) using native-accent voices. It is not recorded by people; that is what makes it possible for every story in every language to have audio.
6. Corrected when readers spot something
If a sentence sounds wrong to you, tell us and we fix it. Reports from native speakers are the most useful thing we get.
Found a mistake? Send it to us. Teachers using the stories in class can find tips on the page for teachers.