Watch something you like.
Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, Viki, or any website. Migaku turns every word in the subtitles into something you can click.
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Learn a language from the shows you already watch.
Migaku is an app and browser extension for Netflix, YouTube and more. Click any word you don't know, save it in one tap, and review it before you forget.
No credit card. Then $8 a month.
Japanese · Korean · Chinese · Cantonese · Spanish · French · German · Italian · Portuguese · Vietnamese · English
4.4
on the App Store (371 ratings)
60,000
learners on Chrome
21,721
on our Discord
Sound familiar?
Years of lessons. Still lost in the first scene.
The streak says 400 days. The anime still needs English subtitles. Textbooks are slow, Anki takes a weekend to set up, and nobody tells you what to learn next.
How it works
Watch. Click. Remember.
Click the words you don't know.
See what it means in that exact line, and hear it. One more click saves it as a flashcard, with the audio and a screenshot.
Review on your phone.
Each card comes back right before you'd forget it, so the word sticks. On the train, in bed, between episodes.
Starting from zero?
First, the words that show up everywhere.
Courses teach you the most common words and grammar first, the ones that make up 80% of what you'll watch and read. Kana and kanji come with mnemonics. (Yes, there's a rabbit hiding in ら.)
Then the shows start making sense.
Before you press play
Know which show you're ready for.
Migaku counts every word you know and scores any video or page before you press play. Pick the ones you'll mostly understand, and learn the rest from them.
92%general comprehension
93words known
32to learn
Why Migaku
Subtitles, dictionary and flashcards in one place.
No more subtitle extension, dictionary tab, Anki and a pile of add-ons that break when you update one. Migaku is one account, on your laptop and your phone.
BeforeWith Migaku
Dual subtitlesBuilt in
Dictionary tabClick the word
Anki + add-onsCards made for you, audio and screenshot included
Guessing what to watchA score for every video
In their words
"I don't dread opening the app every day."
“Anki was always too overwhelming for me, but Migaku is really easy to understand, and I don’t dread opening the app every day.”
“I’m learning Vietnamese through watching youtube videos and creating words as flashcards through Migaku.”
“I no longer have to wonder what I’m supposed to be learning or if I’m doing it right.”
“Doing Migaku with Korean its been like 3 months or so and I feel farther than I got in my first 3 years of traditional study.”
“I’ve been using Migaku for 6 months and there is a clear and drastic improvement in my language ability. I talk to Japanese people every day and they notice the difference too.”
“Well worth it, makes sentence mining insanely easy and I learned thousands of words using it.”
The honest part
It works if you show up.
Skip a week and reviews pile up.
That's how spaced repetition works. A little every day beats a lot on Sunday.
Sometimes Netflix or YouTube change their sites.
When that breaks something, we usually ship a fix within days.
Some languages are newer than others.
Japanese, Chinese and Korean have the most courses. Newer ones start in Early Access.
Who's behind it
Built by people who learned this way.
We're about 30 people, many of us in Tokyo, and we learned our languages from the shows, games and books we loved. Stevi passed the JLPT N1 in a year and a half. Thinh became fluent in English without leaving Vietnam. Chris led teams at Google Translate.
Meet the team10 days free. Then $8 a month.
Monthly
$10 /month
Yearly Most popular
$8 /month
$96 billed once a year
Lifetime
$240 once
No credit card for the trial. 14-day money-back guarantee.
Questions
Which languages can I learn?+
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Cantonese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Vietnamese and English. Japanese, Chinese and Korean have the most courses so far.
I'm a total beginner. Is it too early?+
No. Start with the course for the most common words, then move to shows as soon as the score says you're ready.
I'm already advanced. Is there anything for me?+
Plenty: monolingual dictionaries, your own subtitle files, importing the words you already know, hotkeys for everything, and cards for whole dialogues.
Do I still need Anki?+
No. Migaku has its own flashcard reviews on phone and desktop.
What do I need to install?+
The Chrome extension for watching on your laptop, and the app on your phone. Setup takes a couple of minutes.
What if something breaks?+
Tell us at migaku.com/feedback or on Discord. We ship updates every week or two, and fixes for site changes usually within days.
What's the first show you want to understand?
Learn from it a few words at a time. One night, the subtitles go off.
Start my free 10 daysNo credit card.