Exciting New Features at Langolab!

At Langolab we are aggressively positioning ourselves for absolute learn-foreign-language-through-video supremacy. (Muahahaha!) We will not rest until we've come up with the best ideas, the most entertaining and effective content, and the most amazing features. Every week we want to come out with features of an increasingly awesome nature, and ultimately we want to totally blow you away. Here's what's new for this week.

New Dictionary

At langolab you can click on words in video captions (and any other text) to get definitions in your native language. We've partnered with bab.la for foreign word definitions.

You can vote for the best definition for the word you clicked on. The best definition ends up at the top with a special look to indicate it's the "correct" definition.

If you don't see the right definition, you can always add a new one to the dictionary. Your definition will help you and any other users.




Of course, you can still create sets of flash cards with the definitions. Watch the video, test yourself on the words, then go back and watch the video again. Rock!

Caption Translations

We came up with the most awesome caption translation system possible. It works by grabbing translations from Google Translate, and then letting users edit them into correctness. To try it out, watch a video and select a language for translation.


The machine translations are usually flawed (to say the least), so users are encouraged to edit them to make them more appropriate. Try it, it's fun and you're helping out a lot of people by doing it.