I built a tool to learn German directly from YouTube videos by clicking any word in the subtitles. What do you think?
Hallo zusammen!
I love learning through comprehensible input (like Easy German videos), but I always found it annoying to pause, open a dictionary, check the gender/article, and write down the context every time I didn't know a word.
So, I built a personal web player to scratch my own itch.
As you can see in the screenshot, if you click any German word in the subtitles while watching a YouTube video, it pauses the video and pops up an analysis showing:
- The proper article and gender (
das Handtuch/ Neuter) - The English meaning
- The exact context sentence in both German and English
- A quick shortcut (
S) to save it directly to an Anki deck (coming soon).
It's still a work in progress, but I wanted to see if others in the community think this workflow is useful. Would love to hear your thoughts or feature ideas!
Posted Apr 8, 2026, 1:14 PM UTC
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