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Reelang counts the time you actually spend watching, and keeps a running…
Even a video that's over your head often has a stretch or…
Plenty of the best short videos in the language you're learning only…
Your Reelang learner profile is currently very basic: if you've signed up…
Podcasts are great for learning since speakers often enunciate well and tend…
One of the original ideas that led to Reelang was building out…
See subtitles in the language you're learning and in your own, together,…
Based on what you comfortably watch, Reelang shows roughly how many everyday…
Some of the words you look up barely show up anywhere else…
Tap a word you don't know and you hear a native speaker…
Watch a lot in one language, at one level, and you can…
Similar to shadowing, chorusing is a variant of this where you speak…
Teaching a language? Search the catalog the way you plan a lesson:…
All of Reelang built around Hungarian, as its own app: your feed…
A daily limit on how many videos you can watch for free,…
Some people make videos for learners on purpose. They speak a little…
All of Reelang built around Dutch, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around German, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around German, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Romanian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Romanian, as its own app: your feed…
Every video has a breakdown of the words in it and how…
All of Reelang built around Korean, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Arabic, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Hungarian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Hebrew, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Hebrew, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Chinese, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Chinese, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Indonesian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Indonesian, as its own app: your feed…
Found a list you want to work through? A teacher's recommendations, a…
Your Chart tells you the level you're on. This adds the part…
A version of Reelang in Arabic, and our first right-to-left language. We…
All of Reelang built around Greek, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Greek, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Russian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Russian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Esperanto, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Esperanto, as its own app: your feed…
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Lined up and coming soon.
Native in a language that gets spoken across a lot of countries?…
New to the language and the feed feels like a lot? We're…
Finish a video and we line up a few more at your…
Found a great video on YouTube? Share it straight into Reelang and…
Found a video on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram and wondered if it's…
Some videos come with subtitles baked right into the picture. We hide…
Reading Reelang in your language and something sounds clumsy, unclear, or just…
Working on the subjunctive, or on a phrase you keep hearing and…
All of Reelang built around Dutch, as its own app: your feed…
Now and then we'll drop a single word into your inbox, one…
When your comprehension takes a real step up, we'll send you your…
We're applying for AMP for Email, a Google program that lets emails…
All of Reelang built around Italian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Spanish, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around French, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Italian, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Arabic, as its own app: your feed…
All of Reelang built around Korean, as its own app: your feed…
Heard one thing but the subtitle says another? Tap the line, mark…
Every so often we'll send you a handful of videos that just…
A short email with one question: what's your native language? Tap the…
When you browse, the videos other learners liked and learned the most…
All of Reelang built around English, as its own app: your feed…
Getting ready for IELTS, DELF or the Goethe-Zertifikat? The hand-picked pack for…
Tap a word to look it up and we notice how common…
Sign up and the full app is yours for a week, no…
Put the Reelang widget on your home screen and it keeps something…
Behind the scenes
Infrastructure and cost work. Keeps Reelang running, not a feature you'll see.
Everything Reelang knows, the videos, the words, what you've watched and saved,…
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In our hands this week.

All of Reelang built around French, as its own app: your feed…

Study mode gives you the close-up tools today: pause, loop a line,…

Set a sentence to replay on its own until your ear catches…

Sometimes a whole-sentence translation does not tell you which word means what.…

Watched a video and got the gist? Replay it in Study Mode…

Some of the people whose clips you learn from are joining Reelang…
Behind the scenes
Infrastructure and cost work. Keeps Reelang running, not a feature you'll see.

We lean on AI for a lot of what makes Reelang work,…
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Known issues, on the list to fix.
Watched hundreds of videos with us? Your next one can take a…
You open a video from a link, a search result or a…
Tap a word in the captions and ask for it in your…
Turn on study mode for the first time and we show you…
You open a video that's plainly at your level and the pace…
You bought Reelang+ once and it's yours for good. You tap Manage…
Open the filters on the catalog and they're there straight away. Set…
You want to see how you're doing. But your Reelang Chart only…
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Live for everyone, right now.
The full changelogA version of Reelang in Dutch. We see good demand from people…
If you're learning Esperanto, you can watch it on Reelang: vlogs, podcasts,…
The word check, the new videos at your level, your Reelang Chart…
Some languages are spoken across many countries, and the accents can vary…
Already learning, and set on one particular variety? Choose exactly which accents…
All of Reelang built around English, as its own app: your feed…
Learning Tagalog and no idea which video will lose you in the…
All of Reelang built around Portuguese, as its own app: your feed…
Reelang is coming to Android, starting deliberately narrow with Portuguese focus, both…
Videos that start sooner, less waiting between clips, and controls that sit…
In addition to the watch feed, some learners prefer browsing on their…
We fit smart captions to the Arabic people actually speak, not "Arabic"…
Flick up and the next video is there. Flick down to go…
Open your feed and the first video plays. No frozen first frame,…
Auto-pause stops the video after each subtitle line so you can repeat…
Everything you do while you watch shapes your Reelang+ feed: the videos…
Reelang is coming to iPhone, starting deliberately narrow with Spanish. The same…
A version of Reelang in Polish. We see good demand from people…
Learning more than one language with us? Coming back to Spanish after…
A version of Reelang in Simplified Chinese, used in mainland China and…
Right now everything in your feed is on the shorter side. But…
Starting a language from zero? We're teaming up with Christian and the…
Watching a Chinese video with Smart Subtitles on? The word being spoken…
A version of Reelang in Traditional Chinese, used in Taiwan, Hong Kong,…
Watching a Japanese video with Smart Subtitles on? The word being spoken…
Watching a Korean video with Smart Subtitles on? The word being spoken…
The little "did you know?" notes that explain a cultural habit, or…
A public collection of watch tips from language teachers: the shows, podcasts,…
Looking for one of our videos on Google, or asking ChatGPT where…
A version of Reelang in Ukrainian. We see good demand from people…
There is giant demand for comprehensible input and very few creators focussing…
On some videos the captions appear as long, run-on blocks with no…
A version of Reelang in Italian. We already see good demand from…
Learning English but the site itself is hard to read? We're building…
A simple chart of your listening. Which difficulty levels and speaking speeds…
The player should feel quick and get out of your way, not…
Watching on an iPhone or iPad and the video kept stalling, staying…
Tap the thumbs up on a video, then reload the page: the…
A version of Reelang in Korean. We already see good demand from…
Learning more than one language at a time? Add each one from…
Found a video with subtitles burned into the picture that we haven't…
Pick the language Reelang talks to you in, from every language the…
A version of Reelang in Turkish. We already see good demand from…
Korean runs its words together with no spaces, so looking one up…
See what Reelang is working on: what's already live, what we're building…
Stuck on a video that's over your head, or breezing through one…
As you watch, the captions mark how common each word is. Hit…
Drop the speed when the talk gets quick, so you can follow…
Replay a sentence as many times as you need, until your ear…
See how much you've actually watched, and set a small daily goal…
Tap any word in the captions and Reelang explains it right there,…
Some videos have subtitles baked right into the picture, giving the line…
Flip on Study Mode from the top of the player and the…
During your free Reelang+ trial, watch a clip on any day and…
Reelang+ launched. It brings words you've looked up back into new clips…
Sometimes a clip won't play: YouTube blocks it, there's a regional issue,…
Studying for IELTS, the Goethe-Zertifikat, TOEFL, DELE or DELF? We've pulled together…
Starting a new language? Tell us roughly where you're at and we…
Prefer not to use Google? Type your email and we'll send you…
Reelang remembers what you've watched. Come back tomorrow and your videos are…
Reelang runs on the web, Android, iPhone and iPad, all from one…
Make an account in one tap with Google. Your level, your history,…
See a clip that's broken, fake, off-topic, or just wrong for the…
The captions light up word by word, in time with the voice,…
Tap the creator on any clip and see who actually made it:…
Found a clip worth passing on? Send it straight to WhatsApp, Telegram,…
Clips from TikTok and Instagram now play right on the page, with…
A word-by-word check misses phrases like "social butterfly": every word in it…
Behind the scenes
Infrastructure and cost work. Keeps Reelang running, not a feature you'll see.
Reelang runs on Vercel today. It looks after the servers for us,…
These priorities move as we hear from you. Tell us what you'd bump up, or what's missing.
Tell us what matters