Language lessons that sound like real life
Short dialogues from real situations (ordering food, buying a ticket, asking directions), with each line spoken, shown on screen and translated underneath. Pick a language and a place and get the lesson made.
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A language video here is a tiny scene from daily life played as a conversation between two people: a clerk and a customer, a driver and a passenger. Each line is spoken in the language being learned, shown on screen in its own script, and translated underneath into the viewer's language, so a learner can hear it, read it and say it back. The point is the phrases people actually use at a counter, not textbook sentences, and the register matters as much as the words: casual with a friend, polite with a stranger, formal with anyone official. It teaches Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and English. Pick a situation (a convenience store, a pharmacy, a taxi), how polite it is and a look, or seat two characters from your library so the same faces return every lesson. It suits language channels, teachers and travel accounts.
What makes one of these work
- Phrases people really say, not textbook sentences.
- One situation per video: the café, the station, the shop.
- Two voices taking turns, so the viewer hears a conversation.
Openings that work
Example first lines. Use one as it is or write your own in the same shape.
- いらっしゃいませ。 (Welcome in.)
- Bonjour, madame. Je voudrais deux croissants, s'il vous plaît. (Hello. I'd like two croissants, please.)
- 아이스 아메리카노 한 잔 주세요. (One iced americano, please.)
Start from an idea
Tap one. The script, voice, pictures and captions are made for you.
- Saying you don't need a bag at the till
Pick Japanese and the convenience store: shops there have charged for plastic bags since July 2020, so learners really hear this.
- Answering when the clerk offers to heat up your bento
Atatamemasu ka? (shall I heat it up?) is a standard konbini question; a yes or a polite no makes a whole lesson.
- Greeting the shop assistant before asking to try something on
Pick French and Trying something on: a bonjour on the way in is expected before any request, a habit textbooks rarely stage.
- Switching from usted to tú when a neighbour insists
Spanish has a polite and a familiar 'you'; a scene where one person offers the switch teaches both forms at once.
- Being told you can say du by a German colleague
German keeps Sie for strangers and du for people you know well, so the moment one becomes the other is worth a lesson.
- Telling the pharmacist it hurts when you swallow
Pick the pharmacy: saying what hurts is awkward to improvise and easy to rehearse, and the polite register suits it.
- Asking the driver to stop just after the bridge
Pick the taxi: a landmark, a direction and a thank-you, the three things a passenger actually says.
- Ordering an iced americano with less ice
Pick ordering coffee: one small change to a standard order is the most useful sentence a café regular learns.
- Asking whether a dish is very spicy before you order
Pick ordering food in Korean or Mandarin: the waiter's honest answer gives the reply line a little character.
Looks that fit
Looks that suit this kind of video. You pick one when you make it.
- Anime
- Flat clip-art
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. You get 3 free videos a month, no credit card. Paid plans start at $9/month for more videos and longer lengths.
- Which language goes on top and which underneath?
- The language being taught sits on top in its own script, and the line underneath is in the language your viewers already speak, which you choose separately. A Japanese lesson for English speakers and one for Spanish speakers are the same scene with a different second row.
- Can the same two characters star in every lesson?
- Yes. Put a character from your library in either seat and every picture is drawn from their portrait, with their name in the exchange and their own voice unless you pick another. Leave a seat empty and the studio invents someone.
- Should a lesson be casual, polite or formal?
- Polite is the safe choice with anyone you don't know, and the place to start. Casual is how you would speak to a friend (wrong with a stranger, which is worth teaching too); formal is for service staff, interviews and anything official.