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Stories for language learning.

Read or listen to a story in another language, optionally adapt the level, and open translation help only when you need it.

Papercut illustration representing books, listening and language learning through stories

Sioma combines stories, reading and narration so language practice can happen inside a story you actually want to follow.

15 story languagesChoose the language in which the story is delivered.
A1–C2 supportOptionally adapt the language level to the experience you want.
Paragraph translationOpen help for the paragraph you are reading when you need it.

Language inside a meaningful context

Instead of practicing only with isolated sentences, a story gives vocabulary and structures a setting, characters and a reason to keep reading. Sioma supports English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Turkish and Romanian, including both European and Brazilian Portuguese.

Read, listen, or combine both

You can read a story, listen to the narration or follow the text while the audio plays. That makes it possible to vary how you encounter the same language.

Use support when you need it

Paragraph-by-paragraph translation help is designed to stay close to the story rather than turn every unfamiliar phrase into a separate exercise. Language-level adjustment is optional rather than mandatory.

Practice that fits into real life

A short story or narrated scene can fit into a small daily window. For the research background behind this idea, read Language practice you actually want to return to.