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Migaku Language Learning Extension
Mar. 28th, 2026 02:09 pmThree weeks ago, someone on the viki subber discord posted a screenshot that looked like this:
It looked interesting, so I asked them where it was from, and they just said, "Migaku".
I looked it up and it was a very fast descent from there. That was on March 5, and by March 8, I had bought the thing. It is so good! I absolutely recommend it. So what does it do?
The Migaku Language Learning extension is a tool for learning these languages:
It comes as a Chrome browser extension - only for Chrome, but once I saw what it does, I understood why they can't support more than one browser. I also don't really like to use Chrome, but for this: omg yes! The main features are:
Dual subtitles on Netflix, Youtube, Viki, Disney+ (and soon, once it's out of Early Access, Bilibili and iQiyi).
and
Personalized vocab: it knows which words you know and which ones you still need to learn.
( the two main features with screenshots )
This alone would probably have been enough to make me consider paying for it. But there's more. In no particular order:
( more features )
The only downside to it is that it's not free: normal price is 10€ per month, 8€ per month on a yearly plan. There are frequent discounts. I'm happily paying for these features, especially the anki integration. It means I can continue my usual vocab learning routine with anki, and new cards are generated with a single click from the videos I'm always watching anyway.
I'm aware that most of these features can be cobbled together through free tools. I have tried. I've made video cards for anki before, but the manual process is more time-consuming. Dual subtitles, auto-generated subs, all of that is possible with other tools, but it's fiddly and I never really got it to work the way I wanted it. Overall, having all those features work out of the box with one single extension is absolutely worth it for me. I'm very motivated to learn the 300 or so new cards I've generated in the last three weeks, and as long as that is the case, I will gladly keep paying for migaku.
It looked interesting, so I asked them where it was from, and they just said, "Migaku".
I looked it up and it was a very fast descent from there. That was on March 5, and by March 8, I had bought the thing. It is so good! I absolutely recommend it. So what does it do?
The Migaku Language Learning extension is a tool for learning these languages:
It comes as a Chrome browser extension - only for Chrome, but once I saw what it does, I understood why they can't support more than one browser. I also don't really like to use Chrome, but for this: omg yes! The main features are:
Dual subtitles on Netflix, Youtube, Viki, Disney+ (and soon, once it's out of Early Access, Bilibili and iQiyi).
and
Personalized vocab: it knows which words you know and which ones you still need to learn.
( the two main features with screenshots )
This alone would probably have been enough to make me consider paying for it. But there's more. In no particular order:
( more features )
The only downside to it is that it's not free: normal price is 10€ per month, 8€ per month on a yearly plan. There are frequent discounts. I'm happily paying for these features, especially the anki integration. It means I can continue my usual vocab learning routine with anki, and new cards are generated with a single click from the videos I'm always watching anyway.
I'm aware that most of these features can be cobbled together through free tools. I have tried. I've made video cards for anki before, but the manual process is more time-consuming. Dual subtitles, auto-generated subs, all of that is possible with other tools, but it's fiddly and I never really got it to work the way I wanted it. Overall, having all those features work out of the box with one single extension is absolutely worth it for me. I'm very motivated to learn the 300 or so new cards I've generated in the last three weeks, and as long as that is the case, I will gladly keep paying for migaku.
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