FluentU
FluentU brings language learning to life with real world videos! Access the web's best foreign language content. We've searched far and wide for real world video content that's entertaining, timely, and ideal for language learners. Movie trailers? Music videos? News? Inspiring talks? No matter what your interest or skill level, we have you covered. Our interactive captions will bring real-world videos within reach for you. All captions are subtitled and translated. Click on any word to see an in-context definition, along with example sentences. Our quiz teaches you using videos from the real world. The rich, engaging experiences will naturally help you remember and master new vocabulary. Enjoy FluentU wherever you are, whenever you want. Audio dialogues are even downloadable for offline listening.
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LangLime
LangLime is a language-learning app that emphasizes fast immersion in realistic text snippets rather than rote drills. It supports reading and writing in six languages (Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, German, and Korean) and lets users translate contextually rich excerpts with features like text-to-speech playback, sentence-level grammar breakdowns, and in-context explanations. The app allows users to customize examples to their interests, bypasses heavy gamification, and aims to accelerate comprehension through exposure instead of isolated vocabulary exercises. LangLime fosters continuous flow by surfacing instant explanations for phrases that viewers don’t understand without interrupting practice, thus reducing switching between resources. While currently text-based for input, future updates may include spoken interaction. The interface is clean and minimal, and tutorials are available before needing to commit, helping users evaluate the experience early.
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Trancy
Trancy is an immersive AI-powered language learning assistant delivered via browser extension and mobile app, transforming videos and webpages into dynamic learning experiences. It offers accurate bilingual subtitles for platforms like YouTube, Netflix, TED, HBO Max, edX, Coursera, and more, enhanced by intelligent sentence segmentation and AI grammar analysis to deliver smoother, clearer translations. Users benefit from a reading mode that shifts the video aside to highlight subtitles as text, adjustable font settings, word and sentence bookmarking, and interactive AI tools for word lookup and grammar breakdowns via OpenAI. On web pages, Trancy enables click-or-select translation of words, full-sentence translations, AI-powered sentence structure analysis, and part-of-speech tagging, with unfamiliar words automatically highlighted and added to word lists for later review. Immersive full-text translation lets users compare original and translated text side by side.
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Language Reactor
Language Reactor is a freemium browser-based language learning toolbox available via Chrome (and Edge via browser compatibility), designed to transform authentic media into effective learning content. It injects dual-language subtitles when watching Netflix and YouTube, allowing users to see both their target and native language, paired with a hover or click pop-up dictionary for instant definitions, synonyms, and pronunciation. The extension supports importing text and e-books, adding machine translation overlays and realistic text-to-speech, making static content dynamic and interactive. It includes tools like PhrasePump, a listening-exercise module, and a chatbot for conversational practice, in addition to word-list management, color-coding words by familiarity, and playback controls that include auto-pause, speed adjustment, and sentence looping to reinforce comprehension.
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