New words from your everyday English.
Bring in what you watch, read, and listen to. Discover the words you don't know yet. Learn them where you first met them.
Who it's for
Built for people who already speak English.
You read books, watch shows, listen to podcasts in English. Basic vocabulary
is comfortable — the, house, water, the ~1,475 words you'd find
on any A2 list. You're past the beginner phase. You're somewhere on the long
plateau where new words slip past you every day and you have no good way to
catch them. That's who this is for.
Why it works
You already know the feeling.
You watch a movie with English subtitles. You understand most of it, and the words you don't know you can usually guess from context. Good enough — except every episode has a few words you've never seen before, and they slip past you. There's no easy way to catch them. Stopping mid-movie to look one up kills the moment. Downloading the subtitle file afterwards, scanning for unknown words, copying them somewhere — that's enough friction that nobody actually does it.
But the curiosity is real. After the credits, you wonder: was there anything in that I didn't know? Even before you decide whether you want to learn anything, you want the measure.
That curiosity is the hook, and it works because of how the brain actually holds on to words: through association. A word you met in a scene you cared about — a line a character delivered, a chapter you couldn't put down, a podcast you replayed twice — has something to attach to. A word from a generic textbook list has nothing. The brain also learns when it sees direct value, and "I just met this in something I cared about" is the clearest signal of value there is.
Wordspotting closes the loop. Bring in what you watched, read, or listened to. We surface the words you didn't know. You learn them in the exact context where you first met them.
How it works
Three steps. That's the whole loop.
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1
Bring in what you consumed.
Paste subtitles, articles, book passages, YouTube transcripts. Whatever you actually watched, read, or listened to.
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See the words you didn't know.
We compare against the words you already know and surface only what's new. Each one comes with the original sentence it appeared in.
raconteur noun LearningSomeone with a gift for telling stories in an entertaining, captivating way.
storyteller : neutral, everydayanecdotist : more bookish, slightly arch
He was a notorious raconteur, weaving tales that held the room spellbound.
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Learn them where you met them.
Review with the original sentences and AI explanations grounded in your actual context. No isolated flashcards.
Vocabulary score
How many English words do you know?
A number that goes up.
We know 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're going to count anyway. Your score sits in the header. It starts at ~1,475 — the basics we already credit you with — and grows every time you bring in something new and learn the words you didn't know. That's the whole feature.
Start with what you watched last night.
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