Comprehensible Input
— Krashen, 1985You acquire a language by understanding content slightly above your level. Bilingual sentence pairs make any video i+1.
LISTENING PRACTICE
Listening practice on any YouTube video.
Each sentence in the original, then in your language. Repeat it, say it back, move on. Twenty minutes a day, eyes free.
No flashcards · No dubbing · Just listening
— NOT LEARNING. ACQUISITION.
Four findings. One method.
Forty years of second-language research point to one thing: you acquire a language the moment you understand it — not by memorizing it. Steeping invented none of this. It just made it usable.
Listening-Reading
— Atamian; ArguellesWhen the original and its translation arrive in the same beat, your brain maps sound to meaning. No conscious translating.
Shadowing
— Arguelles; ATA standardRepeat any sentence aloud in the gap after it plays. The interpreter's training method, in your ear.
Affective Filter
— Krashen, 1982Anxiety blocks acquisition. So no quizzes, no streaks-as-shame, no forced output. You just listen.
Rooted in research — not ours
Comprehensible input is the consensus of 40 years of language-acquisition research. Check it yourself:
— A SESSION
Drop. Listen. Walk away with an hour of input.
One session is twenty minutes. No sitting down to study, no drills. Headphones on — commute, cook, walk — and the day starts acquiring.
01
Drop in what you want to hear.
A YouTube URL or paragraphs of text — anything in the language you're learning.
02
We line every sentence up.
Steeping extracts and aligns each sentence with its translation, sentence by sentence.
03
You listen, in two languages.
Original audio, then your language, then the next sentence. No pausing. No translating in your head.
04
Loop, shadow, or just walk.
Tap a line to loop it. Repeat aloud if you want to. Stop when you want. Sessions save to your library.
WHY MOST APPS DON'T WORK
Thousands of flashcards. Two years of grammar. You still can't speak.
That isn't a discipline failure — studying was never the road to fluency.
Take the studying out, and acquisition begins.
— BRING YOUR OWN
Two ways in. One way to acquire.
Drop a YouTube URL or paste any text. Steeping pairs every sentence with your language — you just understand, and your brain acquires the rest.
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— PRICING
Two tiers. That's it.
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- · Listening practice on any video or text
- · 30-day history
- · Save sessions
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- · Up to 5,000 chars per request
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Choose Pro— START YOUR FIRST SESSION
Twenty minutes. Headphones on.
Free to start, no credit card. No studying, no memorizing — bring a video you've always wanted to watch, and start understanding it.