Dialogue at work
Monday stand-up
At 8:30, Andrés meets his team next to the server room. “Quick ,” says Mark. “We the new Wi-Fi on Friday.” Andrés checks his notes. Everything is , but on Friday his daughter has a doctor’s appointment.
Your life is the curriculum
Learn English with stories about your own life
Every day, lexlex writes you a short story about your work, your people and your city, with audio and at exactly your level. You understand almost everything, learn just what you’re missing, and review it before you forget it.
No credit card. Tell me about yourself in about five minutes, and your first story is ready.
Today
Your story for today
heads-up
New
expression
A short warning that something is going to happen.
In your language: un aviso previo · un avertissement
I’ll review it with you tomorrow.
- 95–98% of the words you already know
- 3 to 7 new words
Example with a fictional person. Tap the golden words.
Sound familiar?
Years of English, and you still freeze when it matters most?
It’s not a lack of discipline. Courses and apps teach everyone’s English: the airport, the restaurant, characters you don’t know. But you need a different English:
- Monday’s meeting
- Your daughter’s teacher
- The doctor’s appointment
- An email to a client
- A call to the bank
What has nothing to do with you, your mind lets go. What does, stays.
The method
A new method: the course is you
lexlex has no fixed syllabus. First it gets to know you; then it writes for you. It builds on something learning psychology has confirmed for decades: we learn best what connects to what we already know and to who we are.
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It starts from what you know
Your experience, your job and the English you already have are the starting point. lexlex estimates your level and adjusts it with everything you do.
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It uses your own context
Your stories happen at your work, at home and in your city, with your people and your goals.
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It creates content just for you
No one else gets your stories, exercises or explanations: they are written for you, at your level, with your mistakes in mind.
| The usual way | lexlex |
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| The same course for everyone | A course written for you |
| Made-up characters and situations | Your work, your people, your city |
| Lists of single words | Expressions inside stories |
| You review when you remember | You review just before you forget |
| A test to grade you | A conversation about you |
| Streaks that you lose and that punish you | Progress measured in your life |
And so that what you learn doesn’t stay stuck in your kitchen, each word comes in through your life and, as you master it, comes back in new situations. That way, it works for you anywhere.
How it works
Getting started takes a few minutes
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Tell me about yourself
A few questions about your life: what you do, where you live, who you live with and what you want to achieve. Answer by writing or speaking, in English or in your own language. It’s not a test: nobody fails questions about their own life.
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Get your first story
With what you’ve told me, I write your first story right away: a dialogue, a story or an email with your people and your work in it, and with audio. From then on, a new one every day.
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Practice and grow
Tap any word to see what it means and to hear it. I review it with you just before you forget it, with challenges that get harder, and I show you how much of your life you can already talk about in English.
What it does for you
Everything lexlex does for you
Six sections, all built around your life.
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Today Your story of the day
A short story, dialogue or email about your life, with audio. You already know 95 to 98% of its words and you learn 3 to 7 new ones. At the end, you tell me if it was easy or hard, and the next one adjusts.
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Practice Review before you forget
Challenges that grow with you: recognize the word (in a sentence, by its definition or by ear), complete it by writing, and use it in a sentence of your own, which I correct right away.
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Words Your personal dictionary
Look up any word or expression, even with the sentence where you saw it, and get its card: the meaning at your level, pronunciation with audio, examples from your life and a translation. Already know it? One tap and it won’t come back.
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Chat A teacher who knows you
Ask anything about English, at any time. It explains with examples from your life and, along the way, reviews your words of the week. It explains in your language while you need it, and in English when you’re ready.
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Check Write in English without fear
Paste the email or WhatsApp message you’re about to send and get it back corrected, the way a native speaker would write it, and in three tones, with your mistakes marked and an opinion on whether it works for the person who will read it.
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Me Your real progress
Your level in each skill, how much of your life you can already talk about in English, the mistakes you’re polishing, and everything lexlex knows about you, so you can see it, correct it or delete it.
Plus: it installs on your phone from the browser, without an app store, and you can use it in English, Spanish or French.
Check
Do you have an email to send in English today?
Paste it into Check before you send it. If you want, add the message you’re replying to and the role you’re writing as (“hotel receptionist,” “tech support”), and I’ll give you back:
- your text, corrected, without changing your style;
- your same message, the way a native speaker would write it;
- three tones to choose from (formal, neutral and friendly), with the one I recommend marked;
- your mistakes, explained;
- and whether it really works for the person who will read it.
And you don’t just send it better: you learn. What you often get wrong appears correctly in your next stories, so the right form sticks.
The other person’s message that you paste as context is used to understand yours, and it is not saved.
Try it for freeYour message
Hello Mrs. Brown,
I have well received your email. Effectively, the printer is not working since yesterday. I will pass at your office tomorrow morning to verify it.
Don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions.
Julien
pass at your office stop by your office From your language
“Pass at” is a direct translation of the French expression “passer à,” but “stop by” is the natural English expression.
Appropriate. Your message clearly acknowledges the printer issue and explains when you will check it. A few phrases are direct translations from French and need more natural technical English.
My suggestion · Improved
Hello Mrs. Brown,
Thank you for your email. I understand that the printer has not been working since yesterday. I will come to your office tomorrow morning to check it.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Julien
Your progress
How much of your life can you talk about in English?
lexlex measures it. In Me, you see how much of each part of your life (your work, your family, your city) you can already talk about in English, your level in each skill, and the mistakes you’re leaving behind.
It’s not a streak or a medal: it’s what you can really say. And it grows with every story.
Life coverage
What you’re polishing
I have 30 years I’m 30 3 times
The science
Built on what science knows about how we learn
Every part of lexlex comes from a proven principle of learning psychology and of research on how people learn languages. These are the eight that matter most.
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What’s about you is remembered better
We remember much better what we relate to ourselves.
Self-reference effect · Rogers, Kuiper & Kirker (1977); Symons & Johnson (1997)
Your stories are about you, your people and your goals.
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New things stick to what you already know
We truly learn when something new is anchored to what we already know.
Meaningful learning · Ausubel (1968)
New words arrive in situations you know well.
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Understanding almost everything is the key
We acquire a language by understanding messages a little above our level, and to understand a text you need to know 95 to 98% of its words.
Comprehensible input · Krashen (1982) · Lexical coverage · Laufer (1989); Hu & Nation (2000)
A story is published only if you already know 95 to 98% of its words.
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Remembering is what makes it stick
Recalling something from memory strengthens it much more than reading it again.
Retrieval practice · Roediger & Karpicke (2006)
You don’t reread lists: you recognize, complete and write, with less and less help.
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Review just before you forget
We forget in a predictable way, and spaced review works much better than cramming.
Forgetting curve · Ebbinghaus (1885) · Spacing effect · Cepeda et al. (2006)
The FSRS algorithm calculates when you’re about to forget each word and reviews it with you that day.
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What’s a little hard lasts longer
Mixing and varying practice makes it feel harder, but what you learn lasts much longer.
Desirable difficulties · Bjork (1994)
Words and formats are mixed, and if you miss one, it comes back in the same session in another form.
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Noticing the mistake is half the battle
We only learn what we notice, and learners’ mistakes follow patterns: they are not random.
Noticing hypothesis · Schmidt (1990) · Interlanguage · Selinker (1972)
lexlex detects the mistakes you repeat, shows them to you and works on them until they disappear.
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Help that steps back at the right time
The help that pushes a beginner gets in the way of an advanced learner.
Scaffolding · Wood, Bruner & Ross (1976) · Expertise reversal · Kalyuga et al. (2003)
It explains in your language while you need it and moves to English as you progress.
See all references
- Ausubel, D. P. (1968). Educational psychology: A cognitive view. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
- Bjork, R. A. (1994). Memory and metamemory considerations in the training of human beings. In J. Metcalfe & A. Shimamura (Eds.), Metacognition: Knowing about knowing (pp. 185–205). MIT Press.
- Cepeda, N. J., Pashler, H., Vul, E., Wixted, J. T., & Rohrer, D. (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks. Psychological Bulletin, 132(3), 354–380.
- Ebbinghaus, H. (1885). Über das Gedächtnis. Duncker & Humblot.
- Hu, M., & Nation, I. S. P. (2000). Unknown vocabulary density and reading comprehension. Reading in a Foreign Language, 13(1), 403–430.
- Kalyuga, S., Ayres, P., Chandler, P., & Sweller, J. (2003). The expertise reversal effect. Educational Psychologist, 38(1), 23–31.
- Krashen, S. D. (1982). Principles and practice in second language acquisition. Pergamon.
- Laufer, B. (1989). What percentage of text-lexis is essential for comprehension? In C. Laurén & M. Nordman (Eds.), Special language: From humans thinking to thinking machines (pp. 316–323). Multilingual Matters.
- Roediger, H. L., & Karpicke, J. D. (2006). Test-enhanced learning. Psychological Science, 17(3), 249–255.
- Rogers, T. B., Kuiper, N. A., & Kirker, W. S. (1977). Self-reference and the encoding of personal information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 35(9), 677–688.
- Schmidt, R. W. (1990). The role of consciousness in second language learning. Applied Linguistics, 11(2), 129–158.
- Selinker, L. (1972). Interlanguage. IRAL, 10(3), 209–231.
- Symons, C. S., & Johnson, B. T. (1997). The self-reference effect in memory: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 121(3), 371–394.
- Tulving, E., & Thomson, D. M. (1973). Encoding specificity and retrieval processes in episodic memory. Psychological Review, 80(5), 352–373.
- Wood, D., Bruner, J. S., & Ross, G. (1976). The role of tutoring in problem solving. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 17(2), 89–100.
- Ye, J., Su, J., & Cao, Y. (2022). A stochastic shortest path algorithm for optimizing spaced repetition scheduling. KDD ’22. The basis of the FSRS algorithm.
Privacy
What you tell me is yours
To write about your life, lexlex needs to know it. That’s why it asks for your permission and leaves you in control:
- What you tell me is used to create your content and to improve lexlex. We don’t sell your data.
- You see everything lexlex knows about you, and you can correct it, hide it or delete it whenever you want.
- You can download your data, start over or delete your account whenever you want.
- The other person’s message that you paste to check yours is not saved.
- The most sensitive information, like your health or the children in your family, gets extra protection.
Who it’s for
Is lexlex for you?
It’s for you if…
- your first language is Spanish or French;
- you already understand simple sentences in English and want to get going;
- you need English for your real life: work, paperwork, your kids’ school, your clients;
- you live, or want to live, where English is spoken, or you use it at work;
- you’re tired of generic content that has nothing to do with you.
Not yet, if…
you’re starting from zero. We’re improving the experience for complete beginners, and we want your first story to be really good.
Frequently asked questions
What people often ask us
How much does it cost?
For now, nothing: lexlex is free during early access, and we don’t ask for a credit card.
Do I need to know my level?
No. The questions at the start estimate it, and it adjusts by itself with everything you do. We never give you a grade.
How much time do I need each day?
Whatever you have. A short story and a review fit into a few minutes, on the bus or at lunch. What matters is coming back every day.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. It opens in your phone’s or computer’s browser, and you can install it on your home screen like an app, without going through a store.
Which languages can I learn?
For now, English, for Spanish and French speakers. The app can be in English, Spanish or French.
What if I make a lot of mistakes?
Even better: your mistakes are the raw material. Nobody else sees them, there are no streaks to lose and no punishments, and lexlex uses them to teach you exactly what you’re missing.
How does lexlex create my content?
With artificial intelligence, guided by teaching rules and by what it knows about you. Before it reaches you, each story goes through automatic checks, like making sure you already know almost all of its words.
Does it replace a teacher?
It complements one: you have a teacher in the chat at any time, and lexlex practices with you every day what a weekly class doesn’t have time to review.
What happens to my data?
It’s yours: you can see it, correct it, download it or delete it whenever you want, and we don’t sell it. To write your content, we use OpenAI’s artificial intelligence services. Everything is explained in the privacy policy.
Your first story is waiting for you
Tell me about yourself in a few minutes, and I’ll write your first story in English, with your life in it, with audio and at your level.
Start for freeNo credit card. You can delete your account whenever you want.