FAQ
Migaku Tools + Features
The Migaku product suite consists of two main products:
Chrome Browser Extension on the Desktop
Learn with your favorite content on YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, Viki, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit and .
Recommended for beginners
Migaku Mobile App
Start learning the basics with Migaku’s flashcard-based courses—or, watch YouTube videos and create your own flashcards on the go.
Main features:
Migaku Courses
- Structured Guidance: Our courses provide step-by-step instruction, ideal for both beginners and those seeking a refresher.
- Essential Building Blocks: Master the core vocabulary and grammar you need to follow 80% of most video content.
- Flashcard-based: Our courses are flashcard based, and each flashcard introduces only one new piece of information (a sound, word, character, or grammar point). This ensures you’ll remember what you’ll learn and gives them an incredibly smooth learning curve.
- Learn more here
Text Analysis
- Subtitles and webpage text becomes interactive
- Recommendations of words and sentences to learn based on what vocabulary you currently know
- Personalized ratings of how difficult a particular piece of content will be for you ,given your current level
Powerful Dictionary
- Click on words in subtitles or webpage text to see what they mean
- Definitions from real dictionaries, whether open-source or your own personal files
- AI-powered translations, sentence breakdowns, explanations of what a word means in context
- Hear recordings from native speakers and see pictures of searched words
Flashcard App
- With one click, create media-rich flashcards that include sentences, high-quality TTS audio, images, and definitions—if you’re watching a video, we also include screenshots of your show and an audio snippet
- Spaced repetition prompts you to review flashcards at increasing intervals of time, ensuring you remember the words you make flashcards out of
Video Features
- Click words in subtitles to see what they mean (as described in Powerful Dictionary above)
- Multiple options for syncing video and subtitles—always display subtitles, only show subtitles if dialogue contains an unknown word, hide subtitles but pause after each line of dialogue and show subtitles, etc
- Create flashcards (as described in Flashcard App above) with one click
- Watch YouTube videos on mobile, videos from a variety of steaming sites on desktop (YouTube, Netflix, Disney+, etc), or your own local video files
Clipboard
- Import any text of interest into Migaku’s clipboard
- Create high-quality flashcards with one click (as described in Flashcard App)
Text Recognition/OCR
- Use your phone to extract text from images and make that text interactive
- Allows you to use Migaku with physical books, e-readers, and even other apps—or to translate things like menus and signs
See our YouTube channel for more in-depth introductions to all of the above tools, how to learn a language with Migaku, and more.