דער לייענער — “The Reader”
Der Leyner is a contributor-supported project for learning to read Yiddish through classic works of Yiddish literature.
There are two ways to read. In Reader you go straight through a text, with the English alongside and recorded narration for some stories. In Practice you work sentence by sentence: you type what you think a sentence means, and an AI tutor compares your translation against the passage — taking the surrounding sentences into account for context — then points out what you got right and where to look again.
In either mode, click or tap any word for a dictionary definition, and save words to your own vocabulary list as you build it.
The texts used are public domain, long out of print, or published freely online by their translators for study and teaching. Word lookups are courtesy of Wiktionary and Refoyl Finkel’s Yiddish dictionary.
If you hold rights to any text, translation, or recording here and would like it removed or credited differently, write to leyner.app@gmail.com and it will be handled promptly.
Der Leyner is free to use and runs on donations, which cover the cost of the server upkeep and AI responses. If it’s useful to you, contributions are warmly appreciated. Questions, corrections, and suggestions are welcome at leyner.app@gmail.com.