Lexxio Originals

Original fiction, written to be read at your level.

Every title graded A1 to C2, published in every language we support, on the day it publishes.

The Blue Door

Quiet drama

Salvage Rights

Science fiction

Apartment 307

Quiet horror

Three Offers

Quiet drama

Growing: library, with new titles added regularly
17: languages, every title, from day one
A1 to C2: six graded versions of the same book
Free: HD narration on selected titles

Why we write them

A graded reader you would actually finish.

A graded reader is usually a classic cut down until nothing is left of it, or a story built around a grammar point and nothing else. We write ours the other way round. Story first, and the grammar is the shape that story already has.

Written to be read, not to be studied

Each one is a real story with a hook on the first page and a turn at the end. If it would not hold you in your own language, it has no business being the book you struggle through in a new one.

No two of them feel the same

Different genres, different narrators, different worlds. A woman crossing an ocean with one photograph. A salvage crew boarding a ship that was declared a wreck eleven years ago. A hallway with a door in it that nobody else can count. You are building a library, not repeating a worksheet.

Long enough to be a challenge, short enough to finish

Four to six thousand words across three or four chapters. Big enough that finishing one means something, small enough that you finish it this week instead of abandoning it in chapter two.

Built around what you are learning

The grammar is decided before the first sentence is written. One book gives each chapter a tense of its own. One holds a single past form for an entire log. One runs on the conditional from the first page, the same conditional pair the app teaches as a lesson. You meet the pattern hundreds of times and never once see a drill.

The shelf

What is on the shelf right now.

Every one of them ships in all 17 languages, graded A1 to C2, with the full set of reading tools built in. New titles land on the same terms.

Quiet dramaAbout 6,107 words3 chapters12+

The Blue Door

Some doors wait a lifetime.

A woman crosses an ocean carrying one photograph: her mother, young and laughing, in front of a blue door. She has the address written on the back in a language her mother never taught her, a language she is learning too late and alone. She finds the town, and the river, and the place where the door should be.

What it teaches while you read

Each chapter lives in one tense: present, then future, then past.
The same few sentences come back, conjugated a different way each chapter.
Dialogue heavy, so everyday speech verbs stay in front of you.

We built this book so each chapter lives in a single tense, present, then future, then past, and told it as a letter home so the shift never feels like an exercise. The narrator is writing as she goes, so tomorrow is naturally future and yesterday is naturally past, and the same handful of sentences come back conjugated three different ways.

Science fictionAbout 4,000 words3 chaptersAll ages

Salvage Rights

Some doors only open together.

Four salvagers finally track down the Halcyon, a hauler listed as a wreck for eleven years that has been broadcasting three different positions the whole time. She is dark, stripped bare, and still drawing power, and every door aboard her was built by somebody who did not want to be found by just anyone. Then a second ship comes in running silent.

What it teaches while you read

Told as a log written after the job, so the narration holds one simple past form.
Present tense is kept for the narrator's asides about her crew.
Future tense appears only where someone is talking about what happens next.

We told this one as a log written after the job, which keeps almost every sentence in one simple past form while the reader is busy following a puzzle. Present tense comes in only where the narrator stops to comment on her crewmates, and future only where somebody is talking about what happens next.

Quiet horrorAbout 5,351 words4 chapters16+

Apartment 307

Nobody else counts the doors.

Daniel rents the first apartment he finds with a light over the door, and on his first day the landlord walks him down the hallway and counts off the doors. 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, and then 308. Daniel is the sort of person who counts things, and he is the only person in the building who notices.

What it teaches while you read

Narrated in simple past, written around the perfect tenses rather than through them.
Short declarative sentences and ordinary, high frequency words.
Built on things you can count, so the meaning survives any translation.

We kept the sentences short and the words ordinary, and wrote around the perfect tenses every time the story reached for one. The dread is built on things a learner can count, doors and knocks, so it arrives through structure rather than through vocabulary.

Quiet dramaAbout 4,274 words4 chapters12+

Three Offers

Three days, three offers, one shop on the coast road.

Rosa is closing up her shop for the season on a road the locals call the low road. A man she has never met comes in and offers to buy the place off her. She says no. He is back the next day with a better offer, and the day after that with something that is not an offer at all. A child's bicycle has hung unsold in her window for years.

What it teaches while you read

Chapter one runs entirely on the conditional: what she would do, what she would never do.
Chapter two moves into the unreal past, arguing backwards through a life that did not happen.
It is the exact conditional pair the app already teaches as a lesson, so the book and the lesson reinforce each other.

We wrote this one to sit directly on top of a lesson. The conditional carries chapter one and the unreal past carries chapter two, and both of them are delivered by two people talking across a counter rather than by a table of endings. Nobody in it is a villain and nobody raises their voice.

How an Original works

The whole book is the lesson, first word to last.

Every Original carries the same scaffolding, and you never have to leave the story to use it.

Vocabulary before you begin

Every chapter opens with the words you are about to meet, each one shown in the sentence it appears in. No cold start, and no first page spent guessing.

Read it at your level

The same story exists at A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and a full literary C2. Change level whenever you like, even in the middle of a chapter, and the story never changes underneath you.

A review at the end of each chapter

A short set of questions on what you just read, in the language you are learning or in English, whichever you prefer. It checks that you followed the story, not that you memorised a list.

Word match

A quick matching game on that chapter's vocabulary. Half a minute, no streak to protect, and nothing lost for missing one.

A final quiz, and then something else

Read every chapter and the book opens its ending: a quiz on the whole story, and then a piece that belongs to that book alone. One of them hands you a photograph you can turn over. One of them signs off in the ship's own log. One of them counts the doors back down the hall. We are not going to spoil the rest of them.

Or just listen

A narrated title can be read, listened to, or both at once, with the sentence being spoken lit up on the page as it goes.

HD narration

Hear it read the way it was written.

Selected Lexxio Originals are narrated in a premium HD voice, recorded per level and included at no extra cost. This is not a phone reading a page out loud. Press play and hear the opening of Salvage Rights at B1 Spanish, exactly as the app plays it.

Listen to a real narration sample from the app

Salvage Rights, Chapter One

B1 level, Mexican Spanish, HD voice

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Registro de salvamento, no oficial. Mara, piloto, para que quede constancia, porque alguien tenía que escribir lo que pasó de verdad ahí fuera, y no iba a ser Reyes.

Where a title carries HD narration, the audio is free, on the free tier too.
The sentence being spoken stays highlighted, so any word you hear is one tap from its translation.
Read along on screen, or listen with the screen off on a walk or take it with you on your daily commute.
Every other book, including the ones you import, still reads aloud with the built-in voice.

HD narration is recorded title by title and level by level, so it is not on every book. Each title says on its own page whether it has it.

Every language, every level

Published in all 17 languages at once.

An Original is not written in one language and then translated when enough people ask. Every title lands in every language Lexxio supports, graded across every level, on the day it publishes. There is no waiting list for your language and no shorter shelf because of what you happen to be learning.

17 languages

The same book and the same story in every language we support. Your Spanish shelf and your Finnish shelf are the same shelf.

A1 to C2, always

Six graded versions of every title, so a beginner and a near native can read the same book on the same day and argue about the same ending.

Difficulty you can see

Each title shows how hard it actually reads at your level, measured from the text itself rather than guessed, so you can pick the next one honestly.

The library

Two on day one. The whole shelf if you subscribe.

Free

Choose two Originals when you install Lexxio and keep them. The full text at every level, the vocabulary, the chapter reviews, the word match, the ending and the narration. Not a sample chapter, and not a trial.

Subscribers

The entire library, including everything we publish from here on. New titles arrive regularly and appear on your shelf in your language, at your level, already narrated.

See the plans

The shelf keeps growing on its own. Every title we add lands in your language, at your level, and is waiting the next time you open the app.

Be first through the door.

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