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Start for freeThe committee has the vote until next week.
Members about the budget beforehand.
A new date has not been yet.
Translation
Postponed, delayed
Definition
- Phrasal verbTo delay an event to a later time.
- Other senseTo make someone dislike or lose interest ("it put me off").
Context
« The committee has put off the vote until next week. »
I read Guardian articles now, a year after I started.
Julia, 32
I quit Duolingo after six months without real progress. With Lira I'm reading real news in three months.
Marco, 27
My school English was a disaster. Reading what I actually care about changed everything.
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Why learn English by reading
Nearly unlimited real content
News, subtitled shows, forums, technical articles: you'll never run out of text at your level, on your topics.
Vocabulary that comes back at the right time
FSRS schedules each review right before you're about to forget a word, for retention that lasts months, not a week.
You choose what you read
Import an article, a novel excerpt, or a newsletter: Lira calibrates the difficulty automatically, no assigned textbook.
An irregular form isn't a new word
"went", "gone", "goes": Lira groups them under the verb "to go" in your vocabulary list, while still tracking each form's own memorization separately.
One English, three registers
A formal email, a text between friends, and British versus American usage barely sound alike. Lira trains you on all three.
I would be grateful if you could confirm your availability.
A fixed polite formula, never used in speech.
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 calculates, for every word, the exact moment you're about to forget it, and resurfaces it right before that happens. Retention climbs in steps and stabilizes.
Vocabulary retention over time
Contextual anchoring
Every word fits into a network of meaning
The brain doesn't store words as a list: it links them to contexts and semantic families. Lira memorizes each word in the exact sentence you met it in.
Why not just Duolingo, Babbel, or Busuu?
Those apps teach vocabulary out of context through repetitive drills. Lira trains you directly on real content, with memorization scheduled in the background.
- Understands real text, not isolated sentences
- Phrasal verbs and registers (email vs text) in context
- Long-term memory through FSRS
- You choose the content you read
- Free
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