Newlings: Learn English News

Mehmet Ali Ustaoğlu

About this app

Read and listen to real English news at your level, from A1 to C2.
Newlings rewrites new science, technology and art stories every day at six English levels. Switch a story's level with one tap and read it simpler or richer.
Tap any word for a plain English definition, IPA and an example, and listen to the whole story read aloud.

FIND YOUR LEVEL
Take the placement test of at most 15 questions in about five minutes, or pick your level yourself. No account is needed to start.

READ AT YOUR LEVEL
- Every story at A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2.
- Word cards show a plain English definition. Turkish speakers can choose Turkish translations in Settings.
- Tap underlined words, phrasal verbs and idioms to see the meaning, IPA and an example from the story. Hear each word at normal or slow speed. Tap any other word to look it up in the dictionary.
- The placement test is only a start. At the end of a story, mark it too hard, just right or too easy. When your quiz results, or stories you mark too hard, point to another level, Newlings suggests it. You always decide.
- Search the stories. Share a story's link, or a word card as a picture.
- Stories you opened today stay available without a connection.

LISTEN TO THE NEWS
- Your phone's own English voice reads the story at your level, and the word it is saying lights up in the text.
- Go back or forward one sentence at a time, at normal or slow speed. A1 and A2 start slow.
- The player stays at the bottom while you scroll; open it to see the sentence in large type.

TAKE THE QUIZ
When you finish a story, take a short quiz of five reading questions: true or false, pick the headline, fill the gap, match the words and multiple choice. Right answers in time build a combo for bonus XP; running out of time never makes an answer wrong.

BUILD YOUR VOCABULARY
- Save words from any story. In the New words deck, swipe right on the ones you know and prove it with a short question.
- Spaced repetition brings each word back at growing intervals, from one day up to 90 days.
- Play with your words: Flashcards, Match, and the Ladder, which climbs a story you have read from A1 to C2.

KEEP A DAILY HABIT
- Choose your daily goal: one story, two stories, or two stories and your word review.
- Earn XP and keep your streak. Every seven days of your streak earn a streak freeze, up to two at a time; a freeze keeps the streak when you miss a day.
- Collect badges and see how far you are from the next level.
- Get a reminder at the time you choose, with the day's first story.

HOW STORIES ARE MADE
Newlings stories are rewritten with AI from the facts the original source published, and checked before they are published. Every story names its source and links to the original report, and every cover drawn by AI is labelled. Word cards, dictionary entries and quiz questions are also written with AI.

YOUR DATA
Start without an account. Link your Google account to keep your progress on another device. Delete your profile and progress in Me > Account at any time. Newlings has no ads.

Word levels use the CEFR-J Vocabulary Profile (Tono Laboratory, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and the Octanove Vocabulary Profile C1/C2 (Octanove Labs, CC BY-SA 4.0).

What’s new

Turkish speakers at A1 and A2: hold a sentence to read it in Turkish, or turn on Turkish lines.
Beginner stories start with their key words, meanings and sound.
A1 stories are shorter and simpler; the A1 quiz asks what the story says.
After a quiz and on Today, see tomorrow's first story.
Your morning reminder names the day's story at your level.
Smaller fixes.