This article touches upon the topics of text, text linguistics and text adaptation. The main topic of the article is one of the urgent problems of modern linguistics – text adaptation. In addition, the conclusions and principles of scientists studying the linguistics of the text are analyzed, and an analytical review is made. Modern ways of text adaptation are discussed. Over the past twenty to thirty years, interest in this field of linguistics has attracted the attention of foreign and domestic scientists. In this regard, this article provides an analytical review of the researchers' work. The article uses methods of generalization, comparison, analysis, reduction, and others. In addition, several areas of text linguistics are being considered, which are currently developing. The research and discussion section provides an adapted version of the first three sentences of the story “Taza Bulaq” (The Pure Spring). It is shown that the source text can be adapted into a secondary text using the reduction method. The relationship between the source and secondary text is analyzed. One of the main areas of text adaptation is its compliance with the language level, which is currently very relevant. The assimilation of lexical units corresponding to his level in the process of learning a second language can increase the motivation of the reader to learn the language. In this regard, the article examines the importance of text adaptation in the process of language learning.