Migaku: Really Learn Languages

About

Transform anything into a language-learning opportunity. Learn from videos, streaming services, websites, social media, and much more.

⭐️ Beginners → Our data-driven courses will get you from zero to stumbling through Netflix in about six months
⭐️ Intermediate and beyond → Our tools enable you to begin consuming content intended for natives much sooner than would normally be possible

Sign up for a free 10 day trial (no credit card required) at migaku.com!  

🌐 Languages offered → Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Cantonese, Vietnamese, English
🎬 Supported streaming sites → YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, Rakuten Viki, Animelon 
📱iOS and Android apps → Watch Migaku-ified YouTube, create flashcards, do your daily reviews, and access all courses on-the-go

At Migaku, we believe that learning languages is actually pretty simple: if you consume content you enjoy, and you understand the sentences and messages within that content, you will make progress. 

With us, your journey will look like this:
1. Course → If you're a total beginner, start with one of our courses—they will take about 6 months to finish, assuming a pace of 10 flashcards per day (currently available for Japanese, Mandarin, and Korean)
2. Media → Boot up content you personally find interesting with Migaku
3. Explore → Click on words in that media and Migaku will show you what they mean
4. Flashcards → If you decide a word is useful, one more click will build a media-rich flashcard around it 
5. Review → Migaku will periodically nudge you to review flashcards you make, ensuring that you eventually remember them

And then repeat! As you spend more time interacting with content you love, you will gradually build the unique skills to better understand the things that you personally find interesting. 

———FEATURES INCLUDE———

[1] In-depth Courses
• Fundamentals courses → Master your language's writing and sound systems. Takes about a month to complete at 10 flashcards per day. Currently available for Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, and English. Upon completion, you'll be ready to start our Academy courses.
• Academy courses → Data-driven courses that teach you the specific ~1,500 words and ~300 grammar points you need to follow 80% of shows on Netflix. Takes about 6 months to complete at 10 flashcards per day. Currently available for Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, and English. Upon completion, you'll be ready to leave ""learner"" materials behind and start exploring real media intended for native speakers. 
• Vocabulary courses → Teaches you over 1,000 common words across 15 categories such as Food & Drink, Places, Body Parts, and more. Currently available for French, German, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish. Perfect for travelers who need to brush up on specific types of vocabulary!

[2] Text Analysis
• Interactive text → Migaku analyzes text or subtitles in your selected media and makes it interactive (see Feature 3 below)
• Learning Statuses → We remember one of five statuses for every word you encounter: Unknown, Learning, Known, Ignored, and Tracked
• Learning recommendations → Get recommendations of which words and sentences to learn next based on the words you know now
• Difficulty analysis → Compare the vocabulary in a selected piece of content against your currently known vocabulary to see how difficult it will be for you
• More → Optional color-coding lets you see a word's gender, tone, or pitch accent at a glance

[3] Powerful Dictionary
• One-click lookups → Click on words in texts/subtitles to open up a dictionary with information about what they mean 
• Various dictionaries → Use our bilingual and monolingual dictionaries or upload your own 
• AI Explanations → Migaku's AI explains what a particular word means in context, breaks down how a sentence works, and translates sentences
• Frequency data → See a star-based or numerical ranking of how common a word is in a variety of mediums (Netflix, novels, Wikipedia, etc.)
• More → See images of your word, hear natives pronounce it, and more!

[4] Flashcard App
• One-click flashcards → Turn any subtitle or text into a flashcard with a single click 
• Media-rich → Flashcards contain your word, native audio, the sentence it appears in, text-to-speech audio, and (if from a video) a screenshot of your show + audio snippet
• Dual-platform → Review your flashcards via our mobile apps or at study.migaku.com
• Spaced Repetition System → Migaku periodically nudges you to review your flashcards, ensuring you remember them
• Anki support →  You can export flashcards out of our ecosystem, if you prefer

[5] Video Features
• Interactive subtitles → Click on words in subtitles to see what they mean in Migaku's dictionary (see feature #3)
• Various playback modes → Always display subtitles, only show subtitles if dialogue contains an unknown word, hide subtitles but pause after each line of dialogue and show subtitles, and more!
• Subtitle browser → View all subtitles in the sidebar, click to jump to any sentence, display only dialogue with unknown words, and bookmark subtitles for study later
• Hotkeys for everything → Jump to or repeat lines of dialogue, create cards at the push of a button, tweak display options, and more
• Play local files → Have an actual video file? You can watch it with Migaku!

[6] Clipboard
• Import text → Copy text from books or webpages and save it in Migaku's clipboard to be read offline
• Create flashcards → Create high-quality flashcards with one click 
• Auto-paste → Migaku can automatically detect when your system's clipboard and fetch that text (convenient for manga and video games)

[7] Text Recognition/OCR (iOS and Android only)
• Use your camera → Take a photo and import it into Migaku; we'll detect any text it contains and make that text interactive
• Real-world learning → Use Migaku with books, e-readers, other apps, menus from a restaurant, signs on the road... or anything you see!

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