Story · B1
La nuit avant la finale
La veille du match, Inès n’a pas fermé l’œil.
Because you follow football
7 min98% known
Entiende Tu Mente, 1 of 16
Something to read, something to watch, and the words you’re on the edge of forgetting, woven back in.
The library
Pick the Spanish you’re actually going to hear.
We picked over 200 Spanish YouTube channels and podcasts and sorted them by accent and by level, so you can find ones you’ll understand.
Pick the French you’re actually going to hear.
Most French videos online are made for native speakers. We picked over 200 French YouTube channels and sorted them by country and by level, so you can find ones you can follow.
Portuguese (BR) soon
Spain
Peninsular
The vosotros forms and the lisped c. Our deepest shelf — comprehensible input at the bottom, physics and software engineering at the top.
55+ channels · 10+ podcastsA1 → C1
Argentina
Rioplatense
Where vos replaces tú and ll comes out as sh. Fast, warm and slangy — the accent people fall in love with, then struggle to parse.
40+ channels · 5 podcastsA2 → C1
Venezuela
Venezuelan
Warm, expressive, and full of its own vocabulary. Two dozen channels from across Venezuela, chosen to keep the accent inside your reach.
20+ channelsA2 → C1
Mexico
Mexican
Where ahorita can mean now, later or never, and anything good is padre. Ranch cooking, street tacos and science told in cartoons — all in an accent that keeps its consonants.
40+ channels · 2 podcastsA1 → C1
France
Hexagonal
Where je ne sais pas comes out as chais pas. By far our deepest shelf — slow storytelling at the bottom, philosophy and cosmology at the top.
190+ channelsA1 → C1
Québec
Québécois
Where tu comes out tsu and je suis comes out chu. Recipes, history and true crime, in the accent your textbook skipped.
20+ channelsB1 → C1
Also on the shelfColombiaChileLatin America
Also on the shelfBelgiumSwitzerland
240+channels and podcasts, across 7 accents
A1–C1every channel leveled from its own transcripts, not a guess
Yoursarticles, PDFs, Netflix and YouTube — bring your own
200+channels from France, Québec, Belgium and Switzerland
A1–C1every channel leveled from its own transcripts, not a guess
Yoursarticles, PDFs, Netflix and YouTube — bring your own
Simplify
Too hard is not a dead end.
Lemmesa checks every text against the words you already know. If it’s too hard, Lemmesa simplifies it to your level. You lose a little nuance, but the story and the meaning stay the same.
C1As published79%
Tras casi una década de obras intermitentes, la primera línea del metro bogotano entró en operación comercial en medio de un escrutinio ciudadano considerable.
Five words you don’t know in one sentence — hard going.
B1Simplified for you95%
Después de casi diez años de obras, la primera línea del metro de Bogotá empezó a funcionar. Mucha gente la estaba esperando.
One new word, worth keeping.
The tutor
Ask anything, without leaving the page.
Tap any word to see what it means. Ask a question about the grammar and get an answer about the sentence you’re reading, not a dictionary entry.
Le lundi 21 août, le musée était fermé au public.
étaitêtrewas
Why était and not a été?
Both are “was”. The one the writer chose sets the scene: the museum stays closed while the story happens around it.
In the textétaitit was closed that day, the backdrop
Insteada étéit got shut, something happened to it
The extension
Turn on subtitles. Lemmesa does the rest.
Our Chrome extension works on the sites below. Click once to save the line on screen as a flashcard, with the audio and a screenshot of the scene.
NetflixPrime VideoDisney+HBO MaxYouTube
Silvia Prieto
alcanzasalcanzaryou pass, hand over
¿Me alcanzas la sal, por favor?
Could you pass me the salt, please?
Review
Spaced repetition that speaks in sentences.
Flashcards that come back right before you’d forget them. Every card shows the word in a full sentence, taken from where you first saw it.
Due todaySCHEDULED BY FSRS-5
hasardempêcherombreséjoursouffledéfipleurerfidèle
Card 12 of 98New word
On devrait obtenir une réponse demain.
verb
to get, to obtain
We should get an answer tomorrow.
Already on Anki? Take the deck with you.
Export any time — cards, audio and images intact.
Sessions
However long you have.
Same quality session.
Tell Lemmesa how much time you have, and it plans a session of reading and videos at your level. You choose the accent, the topics, and how much is reading versus video.
Tonight I have
Tonight’s session
30min
Comprehension
~94%
1✶SRS
Deck Review
34 cards · 9 min
2
98%
El portero que no dormía
Story, written for you · 8 min
390%
Spanish After Hours · Ep. 58
YouTube video, with subtitles · 13 min
Words it will bring back
madrugadabrindarveredaescaso+4Reading · Listening · Review
Create
Three new pieces, written overnight.
Every night, Lemmesa writes you three short new pieces at your level, based on what you read that day and what you’re interested in. They reuse words you’re still learning. You can also ask for a piece on any topic and get it in a few minutes.
Dialogue · A2
À la boulangerie, avant huit heures
— Une baguette bien cuite ? — Comme d’habitude.
Uses 5 words you saved this week
4 min96% known
Article · B2
Pourquoi on mange les huîtres les mois en « r »
La règle date d’une époque sans réfrigérateur.
Because you follow cuisine
6 min94% known
Speak
Talk it through, at your level.
An AI conversation partner built for language learners. Talk out loud about anything you want. It speaks with a native accent, at your level. If you make a mistake, it uses the correct form in its reply instead of stopping you, and you get notes on what to fix when you’re done.
After the conversation06:40 spoken · 11 turns · 1 correction
Past tense for finished events
Ayer iba fui al cine con mi hermana.
A trip that’s over takes the preterite: fui, not iba.
Progress
Proof you’re getting somewhere.
See how many words you know, how much time you’ve put in, and how close you are to the next level.
- A real date for the next level, based on your pace
- No streaks, no XP — nothing that punishes the day you missed
- Export your vocabulary any time. It’s yours.
426,500Words read
259hListened
3,120Words known
Pricing
Two plans. Same app.
Both plans include every feature. Plus is for people who use the AI features a lot.
Founding price
Lemmesa
For daily learning
$15/ MONTH
- Speak
- 90 min a month
- Simplify
- 50,000 words a month
- Podcast transcripts
- 20 episodes a month
Founding price
Lemmesa Plus
For heavy use of Speak, Simplify and podcasts
$35/ MONTH
- Speak
- 7 hours a month
- Simplify
- 300,000 words a month
- Podcast transcripts
- 60 episodes a month
Both plans include
- Import anything — Netflix, YouTube, podcasts, articles, books
- Simplify any text down to your level
- Browse a library ranked by what you’ll understand
- Ask about any confusing sentence, right where you’re reading
- Talk out loud with an AI conversation partner, at your level
- Three new pieces every morning, from words you almost know
- 3,000-word core deck to get you reading comfortably
- Words you save keep the moment — the line, the audio, the frame
- One record across everything you read, watch, and hear
NO CARD, NO CHARGE — INVITES GO OUT IN LIST ORDER
FAQ
Questions people ask
Do I need any Spanish or French to start?
No. The core deck starts from zero and A1 texts assume nothing. If you already read some, a one-minute check sets your starting point so you skip what you know.
How is this different from Duolingo or LingQ?
Duolingo teaches you a language inside Duolingo. Lemmesa points you at the Spanish and French that already exist — the shows, videos and books you’d want anyway — and scores every piece against the words you know. Against LingQ, the difference is what happens when something is too hard: LingQ hands you a dictionary, Lemmesa rewrites the text to your level.
Can I bring my own material?
Yes. Paste any article, book, YouTube video or podcast and Lemmesa grades it against your vocabulary. Written material that’s out of reach can be simplified down to your level. Video and audio can’t be rewritten without breaking sync with the sound, so there the help is ranking and glosses rather than rewriting.
Do I need the Chrome extension?
Only for streaming (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and HBO Max) and for articles behind a login. Everything else, including YouTube, imports from inside the app.
How do you know my level?
A one-minute check at signup gives a starting estimate. After that your reading corrects it. Every text you finish updates what Lemmesa thinks you know, so the number stops being a guess.
How much time does this take?
One sitting a night is the design target, around 20 to 30 minutes. There’s no streak and nothing to lose if you skip a day.
What’s the difference between the two plans?
Both plans have every feature: imports, simplification, the ranked library, the tutor, Speak, three new pieces each morning, and the core deck. Plus gives you much more of the AI features: 7 hours of Speak a month instead of 90 minutes, 300,000 words of Simplify instead of 50,000, and 60 podcast episodes transcribed a month instead of 20. Both are free while the beta lasts. When we launch, the founding list keeps these prices for good.
Which languages can I learn?
Spanish and French. Spanish has the deeper shelf: 200+ channels, 20+ podcasts, B1–B2 news and our own starter stories at A1–A2. French has 200+ channels, most of them made for native speakers, and our own starter stories at A1–A2, but no podcasts yet. Brazilian Portuguese is next, and the vocabulary model is built for Romance languages, so more will follow.
A note from the founder
Spanish is why I have a real relationship with my family in Venezuela. Getting there was harder than it should have been. There’s endless material out there and no clear path through it, so you spend more time deciding what to study than actually reading and listening to the language. I’m building Lemmesa so the next person gets there faster.
Kyle Montiel-Berner · building Lemmesa
Tonight’s chapter is waiting.
Read for ten minutes and see how far it gets you.
No card. We’ll email when your spot opens.