News

Learn from what is happening now

News gives you fresh material to read and listen to instead of relying only on texts written specifically for textbooks.

Vocafy follows current stories across categories such as technology, science, business and world news, then prepares them in a form designed for language learners.

This gives you a way to practise with topics that are changing every day and that you may already want to know more about.

Choose the news you want to follow

You do not have to work through the same news feed as everyone else.

Choose the categories you are interested in and Vocafy uses them to build your own news feed.

You might follow technology and science, focus on business, keep up with world events or combine several areas.

The same choices also shape what appears in your daily audio mix.

Read news prepared for language learning

News articles are not simply copied from the original reporting.

When several sources cover the same story, Vocafy can bring the information together and prepare a clear article at a language-learning level while keeping the original sources available.

The aim is to preserve the important information in the story while making the language more manageable for someone who is still learning.

This lets you work with real current topics without every article having to be written for native readers at full journalistic difficulty.

Get help without leaving the article

News uses the same interactive reading tools found elsewhere in Vocafy.

Select a word or expression to see its meaning and save it if you want to learn it.

Words already in your learning memory can be marked in the article, helping you notice vocabulary you have seen before.

You can also use optional word-type highlighting to make patterns such as nouns, verbs and adjectives easier to recognise.

When you need more support, a prepared translation can help you understand the text in your own language.

Listen to each story

Fresh articles also come with audio, so News can be used for listening as well as reading.

The articles are read in a natural news-style voice, giving you another way to follow the same story and hear the vocabulary in connected speech.

You can read along with the audio or use the story mainly as listening practice.

Turn your news feed into a daily listening mix

You do not have to open each article separately when you simply want something to listen to.

Vocafy can collect the day's audio stories from the categories you follow into a continuous Daily Mix.

You can move between stories as you would in a playlist, making it possible to listen to your selected news while travelling, walking or doing something else.

Your category choices therefore work for both your reading feed and your daily listening.

Keep useful vocabulary from the news

Current events constantly bring up vocabulary that may not appear in a traditional lesson.

When you find a useful word or expression in an article, you can save it to your learning memory or add it to a Voca Set.

The vocabulary does not have to remain attached only to that news story. Once saved, it can become part of what you review and practise elsewhere in Vocafy.

Read the way that suits you

You can adjust the reading view to make longer articles more comfortable.

Choose a light, dark or sepia appearance, change the text style and use full-screen reading when you want fewer distractions.

These settings do not change the article itself; they simply let you choose how you prefer to read it.