Ink Drops
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Free, always
- —One simple story each day
- —One language — the first you start
- —Spoken audio on every sentence
- —Reader, grammar, and vocabulary
Ink, from the lab.
Practice any language through stories tuned exactly to your level — comprehensible input, every page.
The method
Not an app.
A science.
Every design decision in inklabs is backed by decades of research in second language acquisition.
95%
Comprehensible input
Your brain acquires language only when it understands ~95% of what it reads. Every story is calibrated exactly to your level.
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Always one step ahead
Krashen's Input Hypothesis: optimal acquisition happens when input is slightly above your current level. Our engine keeps you in that zone automatically.
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Spaced repetition
A word needs 12–15 encounters in context to stick. Vocabulary you meet today reappears in future stories at the exact moment your brain needs it again.
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Grammar rules
Grammar is never explained — it's demonstrated. Each structure appears 5+ times per story until it becomes instinct, not memorization.
"Compelling input — content so engaging you forget you're reading in another language — is the most powerful driver of language acquisition we've found."
— Stephen Krashen, USC · Input Hypothesis, 1982–2013
Membership
Two ways to read.
One method.
Start with one language and a story a day. Deep Ink opens the rest.
Deep Ink
$4.99
per month, or $53.89 a year
- —Unlimited simple stories
- —Every language
- —Multi-chapter series
- —Illustrated stories