For learning the language where you live
Learn a language from the pages you already read.
Verbally is your "web-subtitles": it reads any web page aloud in its own language, with the translation in sync underneath.
Hearing and reading a page at the same time, a proven learning principle called dual-coding, makes a language stick far deeper than reading alone.
$4.99 / month · 24-hour free trial · cancel anytime
Add to ChromeOpen the news you want to read (or a blog, a Substack, your social feed), press play, and get your daily dose of the language, subtitles and all.
The science
Two senses make a language stick. That's how our brain works.
You've probably felt this without realizing it. A few episodes into a subtitled show in another language, words start to land before your eyes reach the caption. You never studied them, but hearing and reading them together made them stick. That's dual-coding, the most natural way we take in a language, with decades of cognitive science behind it.
How it works
Your daily reading session, in three steps.
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Browse to anything worth reading.
News, a blog, your social feed, whatever you actually want to read.
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Press read.
Verbally reads it aloud in its own language.
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Read along and let it sink in.
Captions track every line in sync. That's your daily dose.
One-time setup: add to Chrome, sign in with Google. About 30 seconds.
Features
Read it. Then make it stick.
Save words as you read
One click saves a word you don't know to your personal dictionary.
Quizzes from what you read
Verbally builds quizzes from the page you just read, so new words don't slip away.
Flashcards that remember
Review your saved words with flashcards built from the context you met them in.
Who it's for
Made for learning the language of the place you live.
Verbally is for people building a life in a new language: the expat in the Netherlands picking up Dutch, the new arrival in Spain learning Spanish. You're past the app phase and ready for real content, but raw native material still runs a little steep. You listen in the language; the captions are there when you need them, not the other way around.
- Living abroad and learning the local language, like an expat in the Netherlands picking up Dutch.
- Past the app phase: you've outgrown Duolingo and want the real thing.
- Keeping a second language alive by reading everyday content in it.
About
Tomer is a self-taught polyglot who built Verbally to break his own Dutch plateau after moving to the Netherlands. He speaks four languages, three of them on his own, and writes about how adults actually learn, from experience. He's not a scientist and never pretends to be: he explores a subject he loves and makes the research usable.
Pricing
One plan. Fair for what it does.
24-hour free trial
$4.99 / month
cancel anytime
Card up front. No charge if you cancel before the trial ends.
- Read-aloud in 7 languages
- Live translated captions, synced to the audio
- Save words to your personal dictionary
- AI-generated quizzes and flashcards
- Dark, distraction-free overlay
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