YouTube, Shorts and books — oscar turns every subtitle into your dictionary, your flashcards and your course. Right on your phone.
Free during beta · twelve languages · iPhone, Android, Windows & Mac
All your words, cards and material, always at hand. Practise on the road, in a queue or at home. Even without internet, the app keeps working.
↑ hover a word. that's the whole idea.↑ tap any word. that's the whole idea.
Nothing changed but you.
Open a YouTube video or scroll the Shorts feed. oscar reads the subtitles and colour-codes every word you don't know yet.
One tap pauses the scene and opens the dictionary — meaning, stress, forms, an AI explanation of this exact sentence. No tabs, no flow broken.
One tap turns the moment into a flashcard — screenshot, audio, sentence and all. The built-in spaced-repetition system brings it back right before you'd forget it.
Hover any card — every one of them is a tiny film. Tap any card — every one of them is a tiny film.
YouTube videos with subtitles you can tap, a Shorts feed that checks you every few clips, and RuTube for Russian.
Pick a video and oscar finds the words you're missing, then turns them into a short Course stop. Its cards replay the exact moment.
A walk through the country of your language: Paris, Rome, Seoul, Stockholm. A building per lesson, voiced scenes, and a three-minute level check, so you start where you really are.
Under the street, a lift goes down into grammar: one stop per rule, run by a local granny who reads every answer aloud. Pass her final test for a certificate.
For Japanese: 3,000 kanji, each built from its parts and drawn with your finger. The ones in your own words come first.
Every card you make goes into a pack. Rip it open to see what you got, from Core to Mega rare, and complete a set for every unit.
A full spaced-repetition system with the modern FSRS scheduler. Cards carry the screenshot, the audio, the sentence.
Meaning, stress and every form of the word, stored on the phone itself, so a lookup needs no signal.
Nine classics in your language are already on the shelf; add your own texts and PDFs. Turn pages like a book, tap a word, save it as a card. Point the camera at a paper page and it becomes text you can tap.
A voice coach who knows your level and speaks just a little above it. Talk hands-free, get corrected, and speak with more confidence.
Pull the friends feed up from Home: what they watched, the words they learned, the achievements they unlocked, and a reaction for each.
Over 100 achievements, most of them hidden. Many unlock outfits for your oscar: capes, hats, glasses, frames.
РусскийRussian
EnglishEnglish
日本語Japanese
EspañolSpanish
ΕλληνικάGreek
SvenskaSwedish
한국어Korean
FrançaisFrench
DeutschGerman
ItalianoItalian
DanskDanish
中文Chinese
Twelve today. The plan: every language on earth — until there are no language barriers left to break.
oscar is a language-learning app that turns YouTube, Shorts, books and PDFs into lessons: tap any subtitle word for its meaning, save it as a flashcard with the picture and sound from the scene, and review it with spaced repetition. It also has a Course, grammar lessons and a voice tutor, for 12 languages, on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
Twelve: Russian, English, Japanese, Spanish, Greek, Swedish, Korean, French, German, Italian, Danish and Chinese. The app itself speaks English or Russian.
Yes, if the videos become study. In oscar every subtitle word can be tapped for its meaning, saved as a flashcard and reviewed later, so watching turns into vocabulary. Pick any video and "Learn this video" finds the words you are missing first.
oscar is free during the beta. A paid plan, oscar.+, comes later; beta testers get it free.
Yes. A three-minute level check places you, and the Course starts from the alphabet for Russian, Greek, Korean and Japanese, from pinyin for Chinese. As you grow it moves you onto real videos and books.
The dictionary and your flashcard reviews work without internet, so you can practise on a plane or underground.
Anki asks you to build your own cards; oscar makes them for you from the scene you were watching, picture, audio and sentence included, and schedules them with the modern FSRS algorithm. Duolingo teaches with made-up exercises; oscar teaches from real videos, books and conversations you choose, with a Course and grammar lessons alongside.
Yes: oscar runs on Windows and Mac as well as iPhone and Android, and a Chrome extension adds its dictionary to YouTube and any website. Cards and known words sync between devices.
oscar — приложение для изучения языков по YouTube, Shorts, книгам и PDF: нажми на любое слово в субтитрах, чтобы узнать значение, сохрани его в карточку с картинкой и звуком из сцены и повторяй по системе интервального повторения. А ещё в нём есть Курс, уроки грамматики и голосовой собеседник — 12 языков, на iPhone, Android, Windows и Mac.
Двенадцать: русский, английский, японский, испанский, греческий, шведский, корейский, французский, немецкий, итальянский, датский и китайский. Само приложение говорит по-русски или по-английски.
Да, если видео становится учёбой. В oscar любое слово в субтитрах можно нажать, сохранить в карточку и повторить позже, так что просмотр превращается в словарный запас. Выбери любое видео, и «Выучить слова из видео» сначала найдёт слова, которых тебе не хватает.
Во время беты oscar бесплатный. Позже появится платный тариф oscar.+, участники беты получат его бесплатно.
Да. Проверка уровня за три минуты подберёт старт, а Курс для греческого, корейского и японского начинается с алфавита, для китайского — с пиньиня. Дальше он переводит тебя на настоящие видео и книги.
Словарь и повторение карточек работают офлайн — можно заниматься в самолёте или в метро.
В Anki карточки нужно делать самому; oscar делает их сам из сцены, где встретилось слово, с картинкой, звуком и фразой, и планирует повторения по современному алгоритму FSRS. Duolingo учит на придуманных упражнениях; oscar учит на настоящих видео, книгах и разговорах, которые ты выбираешь сам, а рядом есть Курс и уроки грамматики.
Да: oscar работает на Windows и Mac, а также на iPhone и Android, а расширение для Chrome добавляет словарь на YouTube и любой сайт. Карточки и знакомые слова синхронизируются между устройствами.
oscar is in beta on iPhone and Android, and on Windows and macOS — twelve languages, and free. Leave an email and he'll write to you the moment it opens up.