The words you're learning, in everything you hear.
Videos, podcasts and the Chinese spoken around you, with captions marked by how well you know each word. Tap one and the video waits while you look it up.
Captions that know which words are new to you.
Every caption is split into words with a bar under each one, pinyin over the ones you don't know yet and a short gloss beneath them. Tap a word and the video pauses for its meaning, then carries on.
- YouTube and Bilibili inside the app, and your own video and audio files with their subtitles.
- In your browser, the extension does the same on YouTube, Bilibili, Netflix, Disney+ and any HTML5 video.
- Slow it down to 0.75× or replay a line until you catch it.
Know the words before you press play.
Each episode opens with what it is about and the words worth knowing first, how often they come up and whether they are new to you. Then the transcript follows along, line by line.
- Search for shows and their episodes; Up next plays the next one on its own.
- Anywhere from 0.5× to 2×, with a fifteen-second step back and a sleep timer.
- Save a line you liked to come back to.
The Chinese around you, written down as it's spoken.
In a class, a meeting or a conversation, Lamplet writes down what it hears and marks the words as it goes. Stop and it keeps the recording with its transcript, ready to play back and study.
Say it out loud, with words you're learning.
Short role-plays built from your own words, like ordering noodles at a stall. Hold to speak, hear the reply with its pinyin and translation, and tick off the words you were aiming for.
- Stuck? Answer in English and Lamplet shows how you could have said it.
- Replay or slow down any line from your partner.
- A short recap at the end: what worked, and how to say it better.
Listen the way that works for you.
Videos, podcasts and recordings share the same marks, the same dictionary and your own settings.
- Captions for anything
No captions? Lamplet writes them from the sound, for your recordings and for podcasts.
- Play your way
Play modes for listening first or reading closely, captions only when you pause, and skipping the quiet stretches.
- Cover burned-in subtitles
Drag a bar over subtitles printed into the picture, so you read your own marked ones instead.
- Your dictionary too
Open any word in Pleco, MDBG, Wiktionary, LINE Dict or Baidu as well.
Bring the show you want to understand.
A short level check sets your first words, and every minute you watch or listen after that counts toward them.