Apps teach words. Textbooks teach rules. Lerni teaches the language.
A complete language course in 5 languages. Works on your phone, tablet and computer — no app to download. 15 minutes a day is enough.
Start learning from 8.25 EUR / month →From the creators of the EU's first online school coursebook accepted by a Ministry of Education.
Years of learning. Hundreds of words.
And silence when someone asks.
Classic courses drill grammar, not conversation. Skip the practice and the vocab evaporates.
of words gone in 30 days
Ebbinghaus curve: without review you lose up to 80% of new material in the first month.
average English-learning time
Years of school and courses — and most people still cannot hold a conversation.
finishes an online course
Static lessons don't engage. No personalisation, no rhythm — the course lands in the "someday" tab.
Four things every real language lesson needs.
No grammar tables. No memorising lists. The pieces below are why people stick around.
Real dialogue, from lesson one
Native voices in real places — the airport, the meeting room, the restaurant table. You speak before you drill a single rule.
Words stick when paired with image
Every new word arrives with a picture and a sentence. You remember the scene, not a column of translations.
Reviews timed to memory
You see the word again right before you would forget it. Not when an app pings you.
Mistakes corrected on the spot
Wrong answer? You see what was wrong, what the rule is, and what to try next. Right then.
A whole course — not isolated exercises.
Every element is designed to keep you in the habit — and lead you from A1 to fluent conversation.
Talk like a person,
not a phrasebook.
Native voices recorded in real places — the restaurant, the airport, the meeting room. You hear the language the way people speak it. Then you join in.
- Native-speaker recordings throughout
- Hundreds of real-life scenarios
- No shame, no pressure — at your own pace
Your brain forgets.
We don't let it.
The SRS (spaced repetition) algorithm hands you words and phrases exactly when you're about to forget — minimum time, maximum retention.
- Adaptive flashcard system
- Word + image + sound + context
- 5-minute daily review
Learn with
what you love.
Photo lessons, short clips, real-life dialogues. Language enters through context — the way a child learns to talk.
- 6 700+ lessons from real situations
- Video, audio, photo stories
- Content for business, travel and exams
Five languages, honestly.
No marketing language list. These are the five languages we built a full course for — with the level range we cover.
Lerni works because it's based on research.
We didn't invent a new way to learn a language. We use the one that's been working for decades.
faster retention
Spaced repetition gives roughly 4× better recall than passive review of word lists.
a day is enough
Short daily sessions outperform long, once-a-week marathons. Research is consistent on this.
voices, not robots
Every dialogue you hear is recorded by a native speaker. The accent, the rhythm, the slight stumble — the way people actually talk.
pace, your goal
Want a certificate? A holiday vocabulary? A CV line? Pick one — the plan follows.
App, textbook or course — pick what your goal needs.
Apps and textbooks each solve a piece of language learning. A real course solves the whole thing. Here is what changes between the three.
| What you get | Apps | Textbooks | Lerni |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily 15-minute habit | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Full curriculum, not loose phrases | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Speak from the first lesson | partial | — | ✓ |
| Spaced review timed to your memory | partial | — | ✓ |
| Native-voice dialogues in real situations | partial | — | ✓ |
| No installation — works on any device | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Certificate at the end of a level | — | partial | ✓ |
| You finish | partial | partial | ✓ |
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1,000,000+ learners.
One language at a time.
„Two years on a swipe-the-words app and I still wouldn't speak. Three months with Lerni and I ordered lunch in Madrid — no stress."
„German for a ski trip in 6 weeks. The course fit into my 20-minute train ride home."
„Real dialogues every day, no class to commute to, no one to feel embarrassed in front of. That changed things."
„We rolled it out as a benefit for the whole team. People stayed with it past month two — that was the surprise."
„Lessons are short but concrete. For the first time in my life I have a rhythm to language learning."
„The photo lessons are phenomenal. I finally understand when to use which tense — because I see it in context."
We've been teaching adults since 2009. The hard way.
A Ministry of Education first, two European Language Labels, and a million learners later — we know what works because we have watched everything else fail.
A team. A city. Two decades of figuring out what works.
"I have spent fifteen years watching school methods fail adults. Lerni is what I built to fix that — and it is still the thing that gets me up in the morning."
Bartłomiej Postek
Founder · Poland, since 2009
- 2009 The team starts teaching in Poland. First online English courses for Polish adults — the work that became Lerni.
- 2011 Available worldwide. The product goes global — first learners outside Poland start signing up from across Europe and beyond.
- 2012 First in the EU. Online school coursebook approved by a Ministry of Education.
- 2014 Lerni launches as a brand. The team's curriculum unified under one name — recognised the same year with the European Language Label.
- 2018 European Language Label, again. Only e-learning team on the continent to win twice.
- 2023 One million learners. Across 50+ countries on every continent — a small Polish team behind a million conversations.
- 2026 A new chapter for Lerni. An updated product — everything we learned, rebuilt for adults.
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