Learn Italian
Learn Italian through what you actually love
Italian is often a passion language: culture, food, film, travel. Lira trains you to read real texts on those topics, at your exact level, instead of textbook dialogue.
Start for freeQuick verdict
- ✗Duolingo, Babbel, Busuu: vocabulary out of context
- ✓Lira: read about what you love
- ✓Lira: free
Quick verdict
- ✗Duolingo, Babbel, Busuu: vocabulary out of context
- ✓Lira: read about what you love
- ✓Lira: free
Why learn Italian by reading
Read about what you actually love
Food, art, cultural news: you pick the topics, Lira calibrates the text difficulty automatically.
Vocabulary that comes back at the right time
FSRS schedules each review right before you forget, for retention that lasts months.
Texts at your exact level
Never too easy to bore you, never too hard to stall you, difficulty tracks your real progress.
A word translated, without leaving the text
Magari domani sarà una giornata migliore.
From A1 to C1, at your pace
Lira calibrates every text to your real level from the first reading, and adjusts difficulty as you progress.
FSRS
Spaced repetition (FSRS)
FSRS calculates, for every word, the exact moment you're about to forget it, and resurfaces it right before that happens. Retention climbs in steps instead of declining.
Vocabulary retention over time
I read recipes in Italian now, instead of just translating them.
Elise, 33
After years of Duolingo with no real progress, I finally read a full Italian article.
David, 44
I've loved Italian forever, Lira finally let me progress by reading what I care about.
Chloe, 28
Why not just Duolingo, Babbel, or Busuu?
Those apps teach vocabulary out of context through repetitive drills. Lira trains you directly on real text, with memorization scheduled in the background.
| Duolingo | Babbel | Busuu | Lira | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understands real text | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Long-term memory (FSRS) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Content you choose | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✓ |
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