Start a New Language From Zero: Your First Month
You know no words yet. What a reading app can and can't do at the very start, and a week-by-week plan for your first month, 20 to 30 minutes a day.
October 12, 20265 min read
Guides
See every feature in one tourShort guides: start with your goal, then learn the app step by step.
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Speaking for Your Holiday: A Beginner's First Weeks
You have a trip in a few weeks and almost no words. A routine of 10 to 15 minutes a day on an Android phone: the phrases you will really use, said out loud, with a score, and an honest list of what it cannot do.
October 13, 20264 min read
Your First Novel in a New Language, 15 Minutes a Day
An A2 or B1 learner can start a real novel now: a translation above each new word and fifteen minutes a day. The steps, and where the app will not help.
October 11, 20264 min read
IELTS or Another English Exam: 15 Minutes a Day
Fifteen minutes a day is enough to keep moving toward IELTS or another English exam: review, read, speak, and get feedback on one piece of writing each week.
October 11, 20262 min read
School Exams: Turn Class Notes Into Flashcards
Studying for WAEC, JAMB, GCSE, A-levels or the SAT? Put your notes on your phone, turn key lines into question cards, and review them for ten minutes a day.
October 11, 20262 min read
A Language for Your Job: Speak First, Then Read
A short daily routine built around your own job: an AI Mentor course with your work words, spoken practice with feedback, and the texts you meet at work.
October 11, 20263 min read
Polish for Work: A Start in Your Own Language
Polish for your job in Poland, at the till, in the warehouse or in the office, with your own language as the help language. How to start, and what the app cannot do.
October 11, 20262 min read
Studying From PDFs: Notes, Flashcards and the Scanned-PDF Limit
Read papers and textbooks as PDFs with your notes next to the source, easy to find later, and key facts kept as flashcards. How to start, and the one big limit: scanned PDFs.
October 11, 20262 min read
pimReader as a Plain Ebook and News Reader
No language learning, no AI: just a good offline reader for your books and news. How to set pimReader up as exactly that.
October 11, 20262 min read
Coming From Anki: What Is the Same, What Is Different
An honest comparison for Anki users: what feels familiar in pimReader, what works differently, what pimReader does not do, and who should stay with Anki.
October 11, 20263 min read
Coming From Duolingo: What Changes When You Read Real Books
A course app gives you a path of lessons. pimReader works the other way round: you pick a book, an article or a film, and the app helps you through it. What carries over, what does not, and a first week.
October 13, 20264 min read
Coming From LingQ or Readlang: What Is the Same, What Differs
If you already learn by reading, you know the loop: open a text, tap what you don't know, keep the words, review them later. pimReader does the same on your Android phone, with your own books and feeds. Here is what carries over and what you give up.
October 13, 20264 min read
Learning a language
How to Learn a Language by Reading
Reading gives you a language at volume; the cost of every lookup is what stops you. This guide shows how pimReader puts translations above the line and brings back the words you keep.
September 8, 20264 min read
A 90-Day Plan for a B2 Language Exam
A 90-day plan for a language exam with reading, writing, listening and speaking parts: a baseline test, an AI Mentor course, spoken practice and timed mock tests you bring.
July 14, 20264 min read
Speaking Practice Without a Tutor
Reading builds vocabulary; speaking is a separate skill. pimReader runs fully spoken sessions on your due words, and words you get wrong come back sooner.
August 21, 20263 min read
Language exams
Goethe-Zertifikat A1 to B2: How to Prepare
Preparing for a Goethe-Zertifikat from A1 to B2: what the exam tests, roughly how many words each level needs, what to read, and a weekly plan with daily reviews.
October 12, 20265 min read
DELF and DALF: How to Prepare, A2 to B2
Preparing for DELF A2, B1 or B2 (and a word on DALF): the four parts, roughly how many words you need, what to read, and a weekly plan with daily reviews.
October 12, 20265 min read
DELE Spanish Exam: How to Prepare
Preparing for the DELE: the four parts, roughly how many words each level needs, what to read in Spanish, and a weekly plan with daily reviews and speaking.
October 12, 20265 min read
Polish State Certificate B1 and B2: How to Prepare
Preparing for the Polish state certificate at B1 or B2: what the exam tests, why grammar matters so much, what to read, and a weekly plan with daily reviews.
October 12, 20265 min read
CILS and CELI Italian Exams: How to Prepare
Preparing for CILS or CELI, often at B1 for citizenship: what the exams test, roughly how many words you need, what to read, and a weekly plan with daily reviews.
October 12, 20265 min read
Studying and remembering
How to Remember a Non-Fiction Book (A History Example)
A method for reading a serious non-fiction book and still knowing it months later: take notes as you read, turn them into flashcards, and let daily reviews bring them back.
August 4, 20264 min read
Studying for a Certification Around a Full-Time Job
Build a certification plan from the official syllabus: AI Mentor lessons, quizzes, notes by domain and short daily reviews that fit around a job.
July 7, 20264 min read
Turn Any Article, Book, or Note Into Flashcards
Writing flashcards by hand is slow. In pimReader you select a passage, word list or table, the AI Mentor proposes cards, and you keep the good ones.
June 23, 20263 min read
Practise Soft Skills With the AI Mentor: Giving Feedback
One week with an illustrative new team lead: an AI Mentor course on giving feedback, coaching on her own words, flashcards and a rehearsed hard conversation.
October 1, 20265 min read
Leadership Development: An 8-Week Plan for New Managers
For new team leads and people about to become one: read good leadership books and articles, keep the useful ideas, study one skill at a time with the AI Mentor and rehearse hard conversations before they happen.
October 18, 20266 min read
Reading and news
Summaries, Questions and News Sorted by Topic
Three reader tools help you spend your reading time on the right text: a summary before you start, answers drawn from the page, and news sorted by topic.
September 20, 20263 min read
Staying Current in Your Field Without Drowning
Follow a fast-moving field without reading everything: collect many feeds, sort them by a topic, triage in three tiers, and keep a few key facts as flashcards.
June 30, 20264 min read
Organising Books, Articles and Notes in One Library
Keep books, saved articles, feeds and notes in one pimReader library with one search, organise it with folders and tags, and keep it synced and backed up.
September 8, 20263 min read
How it works
pimReader Feature Tour
pimReader is an Android reader that turns what you read into lessons, notes and flashcards. Each feature below says what it is for and links to the guide that shows it in use.
September 8, 20265 min read
From Goal to Course: How the AI Mentor Works
Tell the AI Mentor your goal and it builds a course of lessons from it, with lesson books, quizzes and flashcards. This guide follows the whole loop, from your library to daily reviews.
August 18, 20264 min read
How pimReader Schedules Your Reviews
pimReader plans your daily reviews with a modern spaced repetition scheduler. It looks at each card separately, not at one fixed multiplier. Here is how it differs, and what the rating buttons show.
June 16, 20263 min read