Our mission
Make fluency come from reading things you love, not from streaks, points, or guilt.
Our story
Language Lit started when we moved to Tokyo. We were excited to finally live inside the language. Then reality hit: the apps kept us busy, the schools overpromised, and months later we still couldn't follow a simple conversation.
So we went to the research. The evidence kept pointing the same way: people acquire languages through comprehensible input, real content at the right level, with vocabulary met in context and reviewed at the right moment.
We built Language Lit around exactly that. Read anything you want. Tap any word or phrase for a translation written for that exact sentence. Save it once, and FSRS spaced repetition brings it back right before you'd forget it, while your saved words stay highlighted in everything you read next.
We use it every day ourselves. If you've ever kept a streak for months and still froze in a real conversation, this app was built for you.
The team
Romullo Bernardo
Co-founder · Full-stack developer
Hey! I'm Rom. I moved to Tokyo, got burned by the streak apps, and built the tool I wished existed. I use Language Lit every day for my own Japanese, and I built most of what you see on the screen.