Glossaγλώσσα Greek — “tongue, language”
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Read what you love.Learn the language along the way.

Clip an article, drop an ebook, or upload subtitles. Glossa pulls out the new words for your level, teaches them before you start, and quietly underlines them in the text — so reading stays reading, not lookup-and-resume.

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chapter I · Down the Rabbit-Hole · B2
B2

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

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peeped
verb/piːpt/
C2
Looked quickly or secretly, often through a small opening.
Why Glossa

Most apps drill words from a generic list. Glossa pulls them from the page you're already reading — so every word arrives with a reason to remember it.

Bring any text

Articles, books, subtitles — whatever you're already reading.

We mind the chapters, paragraphs, and timecodes so the words land back in the right sentence.
theatlantic.com/…
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Clipped to Glossa
Browser extension
Clip articles as you read — right from your toolbar.
Alice in
Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
EPUB / ebook
Drop a file. Chapters preserved.
On the Etymology of Coastal Lighthouse Vernacular
PDF / academic
Papers, lecture notes, reports.
00:00:12,400He spoke of the moor at dusk.
00:00:15,200Wind under the eaves — restless.
00:00:18,000The keeper had tended it for years.
Subtitles
.srt files from films, talks, lectures.
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Plain text
Anything on your clipboard. ⌘V.
headlandp. 14
extractionp. 22
viscosityp. 31
Kindle highlights
Import your My Clippings.txt
How it works

Three steps. No grind.

EBOOK
LINK
SUBS
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Bring what you're reading

Paste an article, drop an ebook, upload subtitles. Glossa finds every word that's new at your CEFR level, ranked by frequency.

prowling
B2
eaves
C1
tended
B2
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Preview the new vocab

Skim the list. Mark what's worth learning, skip what you already know. Two minutes upfront — so no lookups break your flow later.

The wind came down from the moor, prowling beneath the eaves of the keeper's lodge…

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Read without stopping

Every word you marked shows up at least twice — once in the preview, again in the text. Recall happens by re-reading, not flashcard grind. A short daily review catches whatever still slips.

Reading-first

Words remember the sentence they came from.

Most apps isolate a word the moment you look it up. Glossa shows it on the back of the card in the exact sentence you first met it — so meaning never leaves context.

From this article

“Baristas judge an extraction by its color, viscosity, and the speed at which it falls from the portafilter.”

extraction · noun · B2
the action of taking out something using a special process
B2
Built around CEFR

Words climb the ladder with you.

Every word in Glossa carries its level. Tell us yours, and we'll skip the ones you already know — and stretch you a tier above.
booksisterconversations
A1
articlebrowserbetween
A2
extensionhighlightkeeper
B1
bankprowlingextraction
B2
eavesheadlandviscosity
C1
peepedpalimpsest
C2
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