The binge is the lesson
Learn Indonesian by watching YouTube and Netflix
LingoBinge swaps a few subtitle words into the language you are learning. Tap one to translate, hear, and save it, without leaving the show or losing the plot.
100% free. No account. No card. No payments or donations.
English subtitles into Indonesian are live today. Other language directions are still experimental.
Installs in about a minute. Works on YouTube and your own Netflix. It reads only the captions on the video page, nothing else. How we handle your data
No streaks, no guilt
Learn at your pace. We never nag you to keep a streak.
100% free
No account, card, payment, donation, subscription, or paid upgrade.
Public-interest project
Philanthropic in purpose today, without claiming registered charity status.
YouTube and Netflix
Learn from videos and shows you already watch. No locked catalogue.
Private by default
Saved words stay on your device. Bounded first-party events never include titles, URLs, or subtitle text.
One word changes. You never lose the plot.
LingoBinge keeps the sentence understandable, swaps in a word you are ready for, and gives you the meaning exactly where you need it.
I'm starving, let's eat
I'm starving, let's makanmakan · to eat
“Makan” lands before the snack bowl does.
Otto is here for moral support and highly questionable portion control.
The show keeps playing
A few words change at your level. The rest of the sentence stays familiar, so the story still feels like the story.
Otto calls this studying. The popcorn says otherwise.
Tap. Hear it. Carry on.
One click gives you the meaning and pronunciation. Save the useful words without leaving the scene.
No dictionary detour. No fifteen-tab side quest.
The good words come back
Saved words return for quick review at useful intervals, with the scene still attached in your memory.
The plot twist: you remember them.
Why LingoBinge exists
Language practice is easier to sustain when it fits into time already spent watching. LingoBinge turns that idea into a complete loop: a few subtitle words change at the learner's level, each word can be translated and saved, and saved words return for review. The project is currently operated as a free public-interest project, not a registered charity or nonprofit. It accepts no payments or donations, and the core learning loop stays free.
Where LingoBinge works, and where it does not
One language pair is live today: English into Indonesian. Every other language on this site is a waitlist, and the two limits below are deliberate.
Desktop for watching, any phone for reviewing
The watching half of LingoBinge is a desktop Chrome extension. Graded subtitles have to be read from the video page while it plays, and a mobile browser gives an extension nowhere to run, so there is no phone app for watching and we would rather say that here than let you find out after installing.
The reviewing half is an ordinary website. Open app.lingobinge.com in any phone browser, add it to your home screen if you want it to open like an app, and work through your saved words there.
Saved words stay on the device that saved them. There are no accounts yet, so nothing moves between your laptop and your phone on its own.
Comprehensible input first, production later
There is no speaking practice and no pronunciation score. That is a choice rather than a missing feature. LingoBinge is built on comprehensible input, the idea that you pick up a language mostly by understanding things a little beyond your current level, so the effort goes into making what you already watch understandable.
Production can come later, once the input habit is real. If conversation drills are what you want today, a speaking app will serve you better, and we would rather point you there than sell you the wrong tool.
By the numbers
- 106
- Netflix shows in the public difficulty index
- 5
- published vocabulary guides
- 1
- live language, Indonesian
Choose your language
Indonesian is live today. More languages are on the way, starting with Spanish.
On the waitlist: Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, Russian, Polish, Thai, Swedish, Dutch, Arabic. Each page has a waitlist, and we email you once when yours launches.
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Learn the method
- Comprehensible Input: The Simple Idea Behind Learning by WatchingComprehensible input is language you can mostly understand. Here is what it means, why it works, and how to get it from Netflix.
- How to Learn a Language by Watching TV (the Right Way)Watching TV can genuinely build fluency if you do it right. Here is the method that turns binge-watching into real progress.
- The Best Way to Learn a Language, According to the ResearchThere is no single best app, but there is a best method. Here is what actually drives fluency, and how to build a routine around it.
Curious whether watching really works?
We did the math on how much you already watch. The average person watches around 950 hours of TV a year, and the research says understandable, captioned video really does build vocabulary and listening.
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