Lira
Restart your progress after a break
You're at a decent level but you've been stuck for months, or you stopped and don't know where to pick back up. Lira finds your real level and relaunches your progress without sending you back through the basics.
Start freeYou're at an intermediate level but you've been stuck for months, or you took a break and don't know where to pick back up. The basics are still there, but following a real text or conversation still feels blurry, and the idea of starting from scratch discourages you more than it helps. What actually relaunches progress is reading at your exact level, right away, without redoing beginner exercises that no longer teach you anything.
We find your real level, not your old one
A calibrated text from the very first session, no stressful placement test and no exercise that assumes a level you might not exactly have anymore.
Vocabulary that resurfaces at the right time
The FSRS algorithm picks up where you left off: words you already knew come back for review at the right moment, without needing to relearn everything from the start.
Read what interests you, right away
No fixed program to restart from lesson one. Pick a text that interests you today, and Lira calibrates the level to what you actually know right now.
La science
The science behind restarting: FSRS and the forgetting curve
After a break, your memory hasn't necessarily lost everything: retention declines over time without review (the gray curve), but a word that was already consolidated comes back faster than a brand-new one. FSRS detects your real level from your very first reading sessions and schedules reviews accordingly (the green curve), so you pick up your progress without going back to square one.
Progress after the break
Finally back at it, without starting over.
Dana, 34
I'd stopped learning Spanish for about three years and figured I'd lost most of it. Turns out not really, texts at my real level got me moving again fast.
Theo, 41
I hadn't touched German in two years. I started with really easy texts, lower than my old level. Three weeks in, I'm reading things again I thought I'd forgotten.
Priya, 27
Stuck on Duolingo, LingQ, or Anki?
If you're stuck specifically on Duolingo or LingQ, we have a dedicated article comparing Lira directly to both. Anki, for its part, requires you to build and maintain your own flashcards by hand. Here, the angle is broader: whatever tool or reason caused the plateau or the break, the idea is to relaunch your progress from your real current level, not an assumed one.
| Duolingo | LingQ | Anki | Lira | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detects your real level | ✗ | ~ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No need to start from scratch | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Flashcards generated automatically | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Content you choose | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
I don't remember my level anymore, how does this work?
Lira calibrates a text to your real level from the very first session: you don't need to know your exact level in advance, the algorithm detects it from your first reading sessions.
How long to get back to where I was?
It varies with how long the break was and your level before stopping, but most users progress faster than they expected, because previously seen vocabulary comes back more easily than learning from scratch.
Does this work if I stopped for years?
Yes, that's exactly the core use case here: whether you stopped for a few months or several years, Lira doesn't send you back through beginner exercises, it restarts from your real current level.
Does this work for any language?
Lira supports French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian, and the restart approach works the same way regardless of the language.
Ready to get moving again?
Restart today, for free, from your real level, not a starting point you've already passed.
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