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Learn Italian through what you actually love
Culture, food, film, travel: Lira trains you to read real texts on those topics, at your exact level.
Start for freeIl sindaco lo stato di emergenza già ieri sera.
La è già al lavoro sul territorio.
I restano comunque tranquilli.
Translation
Would have declared
Definition
- Verb (conditional perfect)Flags information relayed but not confirmed by an official source.
- Journalistic useVery common in Italian news to separate verified fact from rumor.
Context
« Il sindaco avrebbe dichiarato lo stato di emergenza già ieri sera. »
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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 conjugated form isn't a new word
"è", "era", "sarà": Lira groups them under the verb "essere" in your vocabulary list, while still tracking each form's own memorization separately.
One Italian, three registers
Formal Italian, everyday Italian, and Roman dialect barely sound alike. Lira trains you on that range.
Potrebbe gentilmente ripetere la domanda?
The polite "Lei" takes third-person singular conjugation, not the feminine form people often assume.
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 instead of declining.
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 text, with memorization scheduled in the background.
- Understands real text, not isolated sentences
- Regionalisms and Lei learned in context
- Long-term memory through FSRS
- You choose the content you read
- Free
