PlayLingo
4.6App Store rating
140K+learners

Learn a language on YouTube with an AI buddy

Choose any video you enjoy, or start with our picks for your level. Bilingual subtitles with translation make it understandable, and Lingo, your AI buddy, explains any word, joke or phrase you still don’t get.

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You'll finally understand real speech, and start speaking it.
  • “I can finally understand English by ear!”
    5 starsJiwoo, Seoul
  • “I haven't opened Duolingo in three months.”
    5 starsEmma, Dublin
  • “Shadowing right on the video. Love it!”
    5 starsMinh, Hanoi
  • “Learning from TV series is just wonderful!”
    5 starsLucas, São Paulo
Practice

You choose how to watch.

Same video, five ways to train.

  1. Watch

    Subtitles in both languages. Just enjoy the video.

  2. Understand

    Translation hidden. Check yourself, then reveal.

  3. Listen

    Text hidden. Train your ear, word by word.

  4. Build

    The line falls apart. Put it back together.

  5. Speak

    Shadow the speaker: repeat the line out loud.

Works the other way too. Watch in your own language and practice the translation into the one you're learning.

How it works

First you understand it. Then you speak it.

It starts with one video you enjoy. Line by line, you see how people build sentences, which phrases they reach for and why a joke lands. Save what you want to keep, practice it, and little by little those sentences become yours.

  1. 01
    Understand

    Understand the video

    Bilingual subtitles and translation in context make native speech clear. Anything still fuzzy, Lingo explains in one tap.

    Subtitles · translation · Lingo
  2. 02
    Discover

    See how the language works

    Lingo breaks down grammar and word choice, parts of speech light up in color, and you save words, phrases and whole sentences.

    Grammar in context · words, phrases, sentences
  3. 03
    Speak

    Make it yours

    Saved sentences come back with their scene. Build them from pieces, repeat them out loud, and they turn into your own speech.

    Review with the scene · build · shadowing
— The method

Input first, speaking follows.

PlayLingo is built around two simple ideas: understand a lot of real language, then train your mouth to follow it.

01Foundation

Comprehensible input

Real video, bilingual subtitles and instant context keep the language just understandable enough for your brain to acquire it.

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02Output

Shadowing practice

Repeat native speech out loud, matching rhythm and intonation, so the language moves from your eyes and ears into your voice.

Read the guide

Learn 67 languages in one app.

Pick a video. Start tonight.

Free to watch every day. Lingo explains, five modes train, saved words come back.

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For iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple Silicon

Watching on a computer? Get the Chrome extension