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Lexxio is a complete language-learning app built around reading. Any book in nineteen languages, translated to your level. Around it, everything else: a beginner course, flashcards, pronunciation, verbs, Talk for speaking practice, and Coach to guide your day.
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Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- The Fisherman and His Wife
- The Willow-Wren and the Bear
- The Frog-Prince
- Cat and Mouse in Partnership
- The Goose-Girl
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- rey/rej/· kingStudy
- hija/'i.xa/· daughterStudy
- cama/'ka.ma/· bedStudy
- habitación/a.βi.ta'sjon/· roomStudy
- puerta/'pwer.ta/· doorStudy
- zapato/sa'pa.to/· shoeStudy
- mañana/ma'ɲa.na/· morningStudy
Había un rey que tenía doce hermosas hijas.1 Dormían en doce camas en una sola habitación;2 y cuando se iban a la cama, las puertas se cerraban y se aseguraban;3 pero cada mañana se encontraba que sus zapatos estaban completamente desgastados4 como si hubieran bailado toda la noche;5 y sin embargo, nadie podía averiguar cómo sucedía, o a dónde habían ido.6 Entonces el rey lo dio a conocer a toda la tierra,7Then the king made it known to all the land, que quien pudiera descubrir el secreto se casaría con la que más le gustara.8 Pero quien lo intentara y fracasara perdería la vida después de tres días y tres noches.9 Pronto llegó un hijo de rey, y fue bien recibido; por la noche lo llevaron a la habitación contigua a aquella donde las princesas dormían en sus doce camas.10 Allí debía sentarse y vigilar adónde iban a bailar, y la puerta de su cuarto quedó abierta para que nada se le escapara.11 Pero el hijo del rey se durmió pronto, y cuando despertó por la mañana las doce habían bailado, pues sus zapatos estaban llenos de agujeros.12 Lo mismo ocurrió la segunda y la tercera noche, y por eso le cortaron la cabeza sin piedad.13 Después de él vinieron muchos otros, pero a todos les pasó lo mismo y todos perdieron la vida.14 Sucedió entonces que un soldado pobre, herido y ya incapaz de luchar, viajaba por aquel país.15 En un bosque encontró a una anciana que le preguntó adónde iba.16
Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Jacob Grimm
Lexxio wasn't built to translate books.
It was built to get you to the last page.
Most tools hand you a translation and leave. Lexxio uses AI to bring the book down to Simple, where the story is readable today, then reads it aloud, drills what you missed, and moves you up a level at a time until you are reading it at Faithful, in the author's own sentences.
espero→hope🇫🇷rêve→dream🇩🇪Wald→forest🇯🇵森→forest🇮🇹cuore→heart🇷🇺путь→path🇬🇷μύθος→myth🇸🇪saga→fairy tale🇳🇱taal→language🇧🇷chuva→rain🇫🇮talvi→winter🇨🇿domov→home🇰🇷달→moon🇩🇰hygge→coziness🇭🇺csend→silence🇨🇳梦→dreamespero→hope🇫🇷rêve→dream🇩🇪Wald→forest🇯🇵森→forest🇮🇹cuore→heart🇷🇺путь→path🇬🇷μύθος→myth🇸🇪saga→fairy tale🇳🇱taal→language🇧🇷chuva→rain🇫🇮talvi→winter01Start
Start where you are.
A short placement quiz finds your level and hands you a book you can read today. Starting from zero? Basics takes you from your first word to your first book: up to a thousand words in two parts, five hundred to the first book, a story in nearly every unit.
- Nine beginner languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Mandarin, Korean, Japanese and Esperanto.
- Every word arrives as a picture and a voice. Your own language waits behind a tap.
02Read
Read the real thing, at your level.
Any book, translated to where you are: Simple when you start, Faithful when you are ready, and the author’s own sentences underneath the whole way. Tap what trips you up for the original, the audio, or an easier version.
- Lexxio Originals: fiction written for learners, graded Simple to Faithful, with a real ending.
- A free library of 70,000+ public domain books, or any EPUB, PDF, Word file or text you own.
- Native-quality read-aloud on every page.
The translation, the explanations, Talk and pronunciation are AI. The books are not. Every title in the library is a real book, and every Original is written by a person, then translated to your level with AI like any other book.
03Review
One deck, fed by everything.
Every serious flashcard app asks you to make the cards, and that is the part that kills the habit. In Lexxio the deck builds itself. Tap a word in a book, pass a Basics lesson, miss a verb form, meet a stretch word in Talk, and a card arrives with the meaning, the audio and the sentence it came from already on the back.
- More than one kind of card. A picture to name, a blank to fill inside the sentence you met the word in, a word to say out loud and be scored on, the English first so you have to produce it, and dictation for what you hear.
- One schedule for all of them. Spaced repetition decides what comes up and when. You just answer.
- Every word remembers where it came from, and you can export to Anki any time if you would rather.
04Speak
Say it to someone.
Walk into a café or a taxi and talk. Someone is there, they speak first, and they answer out loud at your level, using only words you have met. Twenty characters, each with a face, a manner and a bit of history. Or set your own scene: what to talk about, where, and who they are to you.
- Twenty characters with their own manner and history. They hold opinions, remember what you told them, and keep to tú or usted the whole way through.
- Your own topic: a subject, a place, a friend or a stranger or your landlord, and the person you want across the table. A saved scene comes back with the same face.
- Pronunciation check hears which sounds slip, word by word, and Coach folds all of it into one session sized to the time you have today.
Ordering in a café
In the back of a taxi
At the fruit stall
Checking in
Nineteen to read. Some go further.
Every language gets the same reader: any book translated to your level, word lookup, read-aloud, flashcards and Coach. A few carry more, built for them.
Esperanto🇫🇮Finnish🇰🇷Korean🇫🇷French🇩🇪German🇬🇷Greek🇭🇺Hungarian🇨🇳Mandarin🇮🇹Italian🇳🇴Norwegian🇧🇷Portuguese🇷🇴Romanian🇷🇺Russian🇪🇸Spanish🇸🇪SwedishLexxio Reader
Not here for a language? Have it read to you.
Lexxio Reader is the same app without the lessons: your books and documents, 70,000 free classics, web articles and photographed pages, read aloud in natural voices that run on your own computer, every word lit as it's spoken.
- 70,000+ free books, the public-domain classics, built in and ready to play
- Runs on your computer, the voices are local; nothing is sent away to be read
- Your books stay yours, nothing you import is uploaded
$8.99 a month, $6.99 during early access. Free for 30 days.
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
A silent preview of the follow-along. In the app, every word that lights up is being spoken.
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Lexxio is written for teenage and adult readers. A version for younger readers is planned.