LingQ

LingQ is a Vancouver, Canada-based language learning website that focuses on language learning through structured reading, rather than grammar instruction. LingQ styles itself as a mutual-help, Web 2.0 learning community.
Central concept
The basic idea of LingQ is marking new words in the way user could notice them right away in all further texts he reads ("yellow words"). After some time with the service the user is also going to see what words have never appeared in the older texts he read ("blue words"). Once the user considers he got through the text marking new words, all the blue words become unmarked, so that they are just going to be a non-distracting ground-color in further texts.
Texts may either be imported by the user himself, so that virtually any text may be used as a kind of a leveled reader; or taken from the project's library. All texts ("lessons") in the library are followed by audio and vary from language courses to belles lettres. Users may share their own lessons to the library.
Other services
The company also offers a platform for users to tutor each other via Skype
Analogues
The Open Source clones of this service include LWT (Learning With Texts) and FLTR (Foreign Language Text Reader). The initialism "LWT" is filtered on the LingQ forum. Lingualeo is similar proprietory online-software popular in Russia and, as of July 2014, also targeted at Brazilian and Turkish markets.

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