Interlign
Watch and read Korean with glosses.
Interlign is a set of science-supported tools for reaching proficiency in a foreign language in a time-efficient manner by consuming content (youtube, books, games, videos) you enjoy. Unlike dictionaries or AI word look-ups, we produce detailed interlinear glosses with the intention of giving the user all the information they need to understand the content they're seeing right in one place without having to look it up or leave the screen. The emphasis is for the learner to learn by simply entertaining themselves rather than by work or study. Interlign currently supports Korean, and very soon will support Japanese. However, we are currently working on adding support for over 20 languages.
You can try interlign with any video here and here. A full browser extension will become available very very soon.
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Lee Chanhyuk - Doraboryeosseo
Open full demo ↗How to Use the Gloss
You are not generally intended to read the whole gloss from left to right. Instead, it's simply intended to provide a fast lookup where you can quickly glance down and see the definition of a word you missed without needing to pause the video, click anything, or look anything up.
There are two ideal use cases:
- Watching content where you know a lot of but not all of the words, and using the gloss here and there to fill in gaps
- Re-watching material repeatedly, such as a song, until you can understand the whole thing without having to use the gloss. Good for beginners to jumpstart language structure and vocabulary
Interlign's Korean glosser is not simply a re-packaged dictionary but is our own intelligent contextual glosser built from scratch. Existing tools often supply the wrong word sense or fail to manage Korean's complex grammar and morphology. While it's still in development, we are nevertheless confident that Interlign is the most powerful, accurate and reliable Korean lookup tool on the web today.
Works across Youtube, Games, Websites, and more
One-key mining
Gone are the old days of having to spend twenty seconds manually setting up a card. Simply press one key to generate a card with source audio and screenshot and our full smart subtitle gloss.
Research:
- Wu & Yang (2022) — Translations directly beneath target words improved meaning recall compared with bilingual subtitles.
- Hsieh (2020) — Captions with word meanings helped learners learn word forms and meanings.
- Hsu (2018) — Glossed captions improved vocabulary learning, with benefits still present three weeks later.
- Teng (2022) — Of four caption types, full captions with glosses worked best for learning word forms, meanings, and use.
- Yanagisawa et al. (2020) — A review of 42 reading studies found better vocabulary learning and retention with glosses.
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