AI English Stories with Your Own Vocabulary: A Practical Guide

You finish a video, save a few useful English words, and then wonder what to do with them. A word list records what you want to practise. A new story gives you a place to meet those words again.

My reading in LearnMovies creates AI stories and dialogues using vocabulary you choose. You can choose a topic, a target English level and a length, then save the result in your private library. This guide shows how to use it for a short reading session after a film or documentary.

Start with words you want to use

After watching a documentary or short film, save a few words that interest you. In My reading, the suggestions prioritise saved words and can also include words encountered in videos or earlier reading. You can select suggestions or type your own words, up to eight at a time.

For a first story, try three or four words. That leaves room to follow a plot while paying attention to the vocabulary. A word appearing in your viewing history does not automatically mean it is unknown to you: choose the ones you actually want to practise.

For example, you might choose journey, borrow and quiet, with travel as the topic. Here is an illustrative excerpt written for this guide:

Maya wanted a quiet afternoon, but her friend called with an idea. “Can I borrow your map?” he asked. Soon they were on a journey to a small village.

They missed their bus, found a café, and decided that getting lost was part of the adventure.

Your generated story will be different. Read the whole situation first, then look at how each selected word fits into a sentence.

Choose a level, topic and length

The reading form offers three target bands: A1–A2, B1–B2 and C1–C2. These guide the generated language; they are estimates, not certified level assessments. If a text needs constant translation, try a lower band next time.

Choose a topic such as everyday life, travel, nature or science, or enter your own. “From my videos” uses recent viewing titles as inspiration when available. The result is generated fiction, not a verified summary or transcript of the video.

You can request a story or a dialogue of about 100, 200 or 400 words. A short story suits a quick session; a dialogue gives you conversational exchanges to read. The extra familiarity setting requests an approximate vocabulary mix. It uses remembered words and level-based estimates, so a requested percentage does not guarantee that you personally know that proportion of the final text.

Read, translate and try a sentence of your own

When the text is ready, read it once for the main idea. Select a word to open its translation when you need help. Afterwards, choose one target word and describe a situation from your own life using it.

Mark a paragraph as read when you finish it. This records reading progress. Use “I know this word” when you already know a target word; you can do that before finishing the story, and you can undo it. Marking a word as known does not mark the paragraph as read or prove mastery.

After marking a paragraph as read, you can submit a sentence in the practice section for AI feedback. Check whether a correction preserves what you intended to say. Generated text and feedback can contain mistakes, especially when a word has several meanings.

Add an optional picture and return later

Select “Include a picture” before generating, or add a picture to a saved story later. The story becomes available before its illustration finishes. Each story can have one AI-generated picture, saved with the text.

A picture is an optional companion to the story. Try describing it with a target word, then compare your sentence with the text. You can also skip pictures and keep the session focused on reading.

Stories are saved privately to your account. Reopening one uses the saved text; it does not generate another story. Return in a later session, cover or avoid the translation, and see whether you can explain the target words in this context.

Free and Premium allowances

As of October 2, 2026, the daily allowances are:

Reading feature	Free account	Premium
AI texts from your words (stories or dialogues)	2 per day	10 per day
Story pictures	2 per day	10 per day
Private library and rereading saved stories	Included	Included

The picture allowance can also be used on previously saved stories without a picture. These are separate daily allowances; you do not have to use a picture when creating a story. See the current plans and the counters in My reading for availability.

Choose a few useful words, pick a topic you care about, and start with one short text. Try creating a story with your words.

For more ways to practise after watching, read how to remember English words from movies.