Learn Russian watching what you love.

Movies, YouTube, Netflix, even torrents — oscar turns every subtitle into your dictionary, your flashcards and your course.

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Free during beta · Windows, macOS, iPhone & Android · six languages

↑ hover a word. that's the whole idea.

The same show,
three months apart.

Nothing changed but you.

No lessons.
Just the loop.

01

Watch anything

Paste a YouTube link, drop in a file, open Netflix, even stream a torrent. oscar reads the subtitles and colour-codes every word you don't know yet.

Я тебя по́мню.
02

Click a word

One click pauses the scene and opens the dictionary — meaning, stress, forms, an AI explanation of this exact sentence. No tabs, no flow broken.

по́мню verb · imperfective
(I) remember
помнитьinfinitive
+ Card+ AnkiKnown
03

Remember forever

One key turns the moment into a flashcard — screenshot, audio, sentence and all. The built-in spaced-repetition system brings it back right before you'd forget it.

Я тебя по́мню.
▸ audio from the scene
Fail · 10mPass · 3d

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Hover any card — every one of them is a tiny film. Tap any card — every one of them is a tiny film.

Plays everything

YouTube, local files, MKV with embedded subs, RuTube, magnet links — and a Chrome extension that mines straight from Netflix.

1-Target sentences

oscar scans every video for sentences with exactly one word you don't know — the proven sweet spot for acquisition — and queues them up for mining.

Built-in SRS

A full spaced-repetition system with the modern FSRS scheduler. Cards carry the screenshot, the audio, the sentence. Anki optional, never required.

Course — your first 1000

Starting from zero? A game-based path through the first thousand words — hearts, combos, eleven kinds of mini-game — themed around your life: your job, your hobbies, your people.

Talk to oscar

A voice coach who knows exactly which words you know — and speaks to you just one step above them. Push to talk, get gently corrected.

Reader — text & PDFs

Paste any text or drop in a PDF and study it exactly like subtitles — hover for the meaning, mine a card, mark a word known, page by page.

Everything follows you

Mine a word on the laptop, review it on the bus. Cards, known words and streaks move between your computers and your phone by themselves.

A dictionary that shows its work

Meaning, stress or pitch, and the full table of forms — plus an AI read on the exact sentence you found the word in.

Proof you're getting better

A year-long heatmap of everything you've learned, a streak worth protecting, and oscar's own honest read on how the week went.

Six oscars.
Six languages.

РусскийRussian
EnglishEnglish
日本語Japanese
EspañolSpanish
ΕλληνικάGreek
SvenskaSwedish
Yours?in the works

Six today. The plan: every language on earth — until there are no language barriers left to break.

And in your pocket.
oscar for iPhone & Android.

The same loop, the same six languages, the same words — on the train, in a queue, in bed. The dictionaries live on the phone itself, so all of it works with no signal at all.

  • Video, reader, dictionary and deck — the whole app, thumb-sized
  • Offline dictionaries, so it still works underground
  • Cards, known words and streaks sync with your desktop
  • The Course and the voice coach, right in the tab bar
Tell me when it lands Available to the public soon

Come say hi.

oscar is in beta on Windows, macOS and phones — six languages, and free. Leave an email and he'll write to you the moment it opens up.

Available to the public soon
Windows · macOS · iPhone · Android — free during beta