International relocation
English for the job, not for an exam
A transfer, an international role, an English-speaking client to manage day to day: classroom or travel-level English doesn't cover the vocabulary in your field's reports, contracts, or emails. Lira trains you on real work documents, at the pace of getting ready for a new role, not a multi-year course.
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- ✗General English: doesn't cover your field's vocabulary
- ✓Lira: you import your own work documents
- ✓Lira: free to start
Quick verdict
- ✗General English: doesn't cover your field's vocabulary
- ✓Lira: you import your own work documents
- ✓Lira: free to start
You can already handle a conversation in English, but a technical report, a contract, or dense internal documentation takes twice as long to get through as it would for a native colleague, and the precise vocabulary of your field (legal, finance, industrial, tech) isn't something a generic English course teaches. Most apps build a base that's useful for traveling, not for reading an internal memo or a contract clause. Lira starts from your own documents: you read what your role actually requires, and the technical vocabulary you run into sticks instead of being relearned with every new document.
Getting ready for a role, not for an exam
No fixed multi-month program: your field's vocabulary builds up document by document, as you read what your job actually requires.
Week 1
Import a first real document from your field (a report, an industry article, documentation) and read it at your own pace.
Weeks 2-3
Technical vocabulary you ran into resurfaces for review right before you forget it.
Start date
Everyday documents in your role read noticeably faster, without a dictionary next to you.
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What Lira actually does
Your own work documents
Paste a URL to a professional article, drop in a PDF or EPUB: a report, documentation, news from your industry. Lira doesn't put you through a generic dialogue, it's exactly the kind of text your role expects you to understand.
Field vocabulary that comes back at the right time
Every technical term you look up gets scheduled for review by the FSRS algorithm right before you're about to forget it. Your field's jargon (legal, finance, industrial, tech) becomes long-term memory, not just something you recognize until you close the document.
A level that adjusts as you go
Your real level is reassessed continuously as you read. Start with something simpler (general industry news), then move up to more technical material (reports, contracts) at your own pace.
Your prep, tracked over time
Technical vocabulary you run into while reading your own documents turns into a review card, and your progress stays visible week over week.
Technical vocabulary translated without leaving your reading
Your progress on your field's vocabulary, at a glance
Field vocabulary reviewed as a game
The science
The science behind Lira: spaced repetition (FSRS)
FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) calculates, for every technical term you learn, the exact moment you're about to forget it, and resurfaces it right before that happens. Without this structure, memory declines fast (the gray curve). With reviews timed correctly, retention climbs in steps and stabilizes (the green curve). That's the difference between a term you recognized once in a document and one you naturally reuse in your next report or meeting.
Professional vocabulary retention over time
Reports from our US team used to take forever to get through. After a few weeks of importing them straight into Lira, it got a lot smoother.
Daniel, 37
I prepped for my transfer to Dublin by reading industry articles (finance) for about a month. The technical vocabulary I was most worried about became almost second nature.
Priya, 34
Easy to fit between two meetings, unlike an actual evening class.
Marcus, 40
Why not just Duolingo, Babbel, or Busuu?
Those apps build a general base that's useful for traveling or everyday conversation, not the precise vocabulary of a report, a contract, or technical documentation. Lira does the opposite: you read your field's actual documents, and FSRS handles memorizing the technical vocabulary in the background.
| Duolingo | Babbel | Busuu | Lira | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads your own work documents | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Your field's technical vocabulary | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Long-term memory (FSRS) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to start | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✓ |
Go further
Complete guideLearn a Language by Reading: The Complete Guide
How to learn a language by reading real texts: the research behind it, how much reading is enough, and a step-by-step method.
Complete guideExtensive Reading: The Complete Guide to Learning a Language
Extensive reading means picking texts you already understand at 90-95%. Here's why it works, how to start with Lira, and how to avoid common mistakes.
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