Stop studying English.
Start reading it.
Rian turns any article into a lesson in your language. Tap a word, get a translation that actually fits the sentence, and remember it with smart review.
Free to start · No account needed · English, explained in your language — all 29 of them
Cambodia’s young farmers are turning to technology to their from a changing .
Try it — tap an underlined word.
Sound familiar?
The dictionary gives six meanings
And none of them fit the sentence you’re reading. You guess, and you guess wrong.
Graded readers are boring
“Tom goes to the market.” You’re an adult. You want the news, football, and technology — the real internet.
Monday’s words are gone by Friday
You looked it up, you understood it, you forgot it. Without review at the right moment, words don’t stick.
How it works
Three steps between you and reading real English
Read anything
News, blogs, song lyrics, homework — if you can read it, Rian can teach it.
Paste any linkTap a word
The AI reads the whole sentence first, then explains that word in your language.
harvest → ផលដំណាំRemember it
Saved words come back for review right before you’d forget them.
Good → due in 3 daysEvery saved word makes the next article easier.
Built for your language
Big apps translate at you. Rian explains in your language.
Most learning apps are built for European languages and treat everyone else as an afterthought. Rian launched with Khmer first — and explains English in 29 native languages.
Spaced review
Words come back right before you’d forget them
Every word you save is scheduled with FSRS — the modern spaced-repetition algorithm used by serious memory tools. No decks to manage, no settings to learn.
- Each word keeps the sentence you found it in — context is what makes it stick.
- Reviews take minutes, not hours: only the words that are due today.
- Grade honestly — Again, Hard, Good, Easy — and the schedule adapts to you.
harvest
ផលដំណាំ
“…protect their harvest from a changing climate.”
Early access
Why Rian exists
I built Rian because every English app I tried explained English in English — or in Spanish, or French. Never in the language my family actually speaks. Rian is the reader I wished existed: real articles, real context, explained in your own language — starting with mine, and now in 29.
29
native languages, day one
1 tap
from any word to its meaning
10 free
contextual translations, every day
Pricing
Free to read every day. Pro when you want no limits.
Free
$0
No account needed to start
- 10 contextual translations every day — enough for daily reading
- 2 imported articles in your library
- Full spaced-review system, forever
- All 29 native languages
Pro
One subscription, four ways to pay · cancel anytime
- Unlimited articles in your library
- 2,000 translations per day
- AI article summaries in simple English
- Everything in Free
Honest limits: free translations reset at midnight UTC — that’s set by our servers, not your phone. Subscriptions are billed and cancelled through the App Store.
Questions
Fair questions, straight answers
Yes. You can read and translate every day at no cost, and the review system is never paywalled. Pro removes the daily limits and adds AI summaries.
Rian explains English in 29 native languages — starting with Khmer, Vietnamese, Thai, Lao, and Burmese, plus Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, and more. The full list is above.
Duolingo teaches courses — lessons someone else wrote, in a fixed order. Rian is for reading the real internet: you choose the article, and Rian helps you understand and remember it. Many people use both.
A dictionary shows you every meaning; Google Translate replaces the sentence. Rian reads the sentence first and explains the one meaning that fits — then saves it with that context so you can review it later.
You need a connection for new translations, since the AI reads each sentence live. Words you’ve already saved are on your device for review.
Yes — subscriptions run through the App Store, so you cancel in your phone’s settings in about ten seconds. No emails, no retention tricks.
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