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Spanish is spoken almost everywhere. Lira trains you on real texts at your level, not the frozen dialogues of a textbook.
Start for freeEl gobierno nuevas medidas antes del viernes.
Los siguen esperando una respuesta oficial.
Mientras tanto, la crece en el mercado.
Translation
Would have announced
Definition
- Verb (conditional perfect)Flags information relayed but not confirmed by an official source.
- Journalistic useVery common in Spanish news to separate verified fact from rumor.
Context
« El gobierno habría anunciado nuevas medidas antes del viernes. »
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Vocabulary actually sticks, even weeks after reading it.
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Why learn Spanish by reading
Everyday vocabulary
Articles, news, novel excerpts: you learn the Spanish people actually speak, not a 2005 textbook.
Vocabulary that comes back at the right time
FSRS schedules each review right before you forget, for retention that lasts, not just a quiz.
Texts at your exact level
Difficulty is calibrated automatically, so you progress without getting bored or stuck on words that are too advanced.
A conjugated form isn't a new word
"es", "era", "será": Lira groups them under the verb "ser" in your vocabulary list, while still tracking each form's own memorization separately.
One Spanish, three varieties
Formal Spanish, Spain's own slang, and Argentine voseo don't sound alike. Lira trains you on that regional range.
¿Podría usted confirmarme la cita?
"Usted" takes third-person conjugation, a polite form textbooks rarely lead with.
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
- Regional varieties (voseo, usted/tú) learned in context
- Long-term memory through FSRS
- You choose the content you read
- Free
