Learn English words from TV series
For people who already speak English. Wordspotting finds the words you don't know in the shows you watch, and teaches you them before you press play.
Better Call Saul
Game of Thrones
House of Cards
Shameless
True Detective
How it works
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Add the shows you have watched.
Pick them from the catalog. They are where your example sentences come from later.
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Open the episode you are about to watch.
You get the words it says, minus the ones you already know.
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Warm up, then watch.
A couple of quick passes over the words you picked, and you press play holding them.
See the words first. Never the story
Nothing from the episode is shown to you unless you ask for it. The example sentence beside a word is lifted from something you have already watched and matched to the same meaning, so the word arrives explained and the episode stays unspoiled.
If nothing you have watched uses a word in that meaning, the page says so instead of guessing, and keeps looking in the background.
Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 7
impunity · freedom from punishment or consequences for one's actions
Well, of course I'm dangerous. I'm police. I can do terrible things to people with impunity.
from True Detective, which you have watched
honorable · deserving respect for having strong moral principles
I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests. Honorable thieves.
from Better Call Saul, which you have watched
mercy · compassion shown toward someone in one's power
For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: hunt or be hunted.
from House of Cards, which you have watched
Grammar isn't your gap. Words are
You already read, watch, and listen in English every day. At your level, grammar isn't what's holding you back. The gap is words: the rare ones, the idioms, the ones that make native speech sound native.
One episode holds far more unfamiliar words than you expect. Finding them was never the problem. Choosing the ones worth your time is.
That's what Wordspotting is for. It keeps one list for you across everything you watch, so a word you have marked known never comes back, and what is left in front of you is what you actually do not know.
hubris
excessive pride or arrogance, especially when it leads to someone's downfall
on the q.t.
secretly, without telling others
embezzle
to secretly steal money you have been trusted to manage
dead to rights
with clear, undeniable proof of guilt
Then you learn them
Tap a word to see its meaning in your language, next to a sentence you are allowed to see.
Sort it with one tap: Know if you already have it, Learn if you want it.
The words you Learn become cards. The warm up is their first couple of passes, and spaced repetition brings each one back on its own schedule until it sticks.
Goes into your reviews.
One you already have.
A number that goes up
Vocabulary size isn't really what fluency is about. Real fluency is feel, instinct, the words that arrive without thinking. None of that fits in a counter. But watching a number tick up does feel good, and feeling good about words you used to not know is most of why anyone sticks with anything. So we count anyway. Your score sits in the app header. It starts with the core English we already credit you with, and grows every time you add a show and learn the words you didn't know.
Free to start. Pay only for new words
Adding shows, finding words, and reviewing are always free and unlimited. The free plan covers about 50 new words a month, plenty for a regular week of watching.
Start with the shows you already know
Free to start. Sign in with Google, add a few shows you have already watched, and open the episode you are watching next.