Every Wednesday, Lexigo Weekly brings 3 or 4 short news stories on the topics you choose. Each one is written at your level, with the words you saved inside, so you meet them again in a real sentence.
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Every phone battery loses a little capacity each time it charges, so it gradually holds less power. Heat speeds this up, and so does keeping the battery at 100% for hours. Many phones now offer to stop charging at 80%. The only drawback is a slightly shorter day, but it can mitigate wear and keep the phone useful for longer.
Read the full storySales can drop without warning. A savings cushion that covers three to six months of costs lets a business pay staff and rent through an unexpected slow season instead of borrowing at high rates. Owners say the habit makes them more resilient: they can wait, plan and choose, instead of reacting in a panic.
Read the full storyYou pick them when you sign up, from technology and business to sports or science. No topics yet? You get finance, business and technology.
Each story is 60 to 65 words, from A1 to C2. Lexigo uses the level you chose, or B1 if you haven’t set one.
Two or three of the words you are learning appear in each story, in bold, so you see how they are used in the news.
A few words slightly above your level, underlined in green. One click saves a word, with its translation and definition.
Stories come from the past week of trusted news sites, chosen by hand for each topic. Every story links to the original article.
Each issue ends with the number of words due today and a button to review them in two minutes.
The sample issue above is for a B1 reader who follows technology and finance. Yours uses your topics, your level and your words.
gradually Your words are in bold indigo. Meeting them again in a sentence is a review.
mitigate New words are underlined in green. One click saves one to your Lexigo, no sign-in needed.
Lexigo reads a short list of news sites for each topic, picked and checked by hand, and only keeps stories from the past seven days. It leaves out deals, live blogs and quizzes, and the same story told by two outlets appears once.
Each story is rewritten for your level from the article itself, never from a web search, and links to the original so you can read it in full. Photos come from Pixabay, credit included; they are never generated by AI.
Lexigo only uses the words you save and your settings to write your issue, never your browsing history.
Yes. It comes with every Lexigo account, at no cost, and you can turn it off with one click from any issue.
On Wednesday at 8:00 in your time zone. If a send fails, Lexigo tries again later the same day.
No. Without saved words you still get the stories at your level and new words to try. The more words you save, the more of them you meet in your issue.
Your level, from A1 to C2, as you set it in Lexigo. If you haven’t chosen one, the stories are written at B1. Native speakers who want to grow their vocabulary read C2.
The stories are in English, because that is what you are learning. Everything around them, from the greeting to the buttons, is in your Lexigo language, one of 19.
Click it. A Lexigo page opens and saves the word with its translation and definition, without signing in. You can undo it from the same page.
Create your free account, pick your topics, and your first issue arrives next Wednesday.