Woodpecker – Language Learning

Use our amazing bilingual dictionaries to look up words and interact with video subtitles and web pages. Our dictionaries are free, work offline, and contain no ads!

The best way to become bilingual is to practice watching shows and videos created for native speakers. Woodpecker is an app that contains thousands of the world's most popular TV shows and videos, plus learning tools to help you become bilingual for free!

Practice common vocabulary, tones and accents while watching a huge library of popular shows from around the world. Dive into thousands of movies, TV shows, interviews and presentations and if you're not sure about a word you come across, just tap on the subtitle to instantly get a definition in your own language.

• A movie or video streamed in Woodpecker can have two subtitle streams playing simultaneously. For example, one in English and one in Chinese.

• Tap a word in a subtitle stream to see possible meanings in your language. Tap a word or character in your own language to get the definition in the language you are learning

• To improve your listening skills, you can replay a single sentence continuously, rewind five seconds to repeat the content, and play the video at a slower speed. Tap the timestamp of a subtitle to jump to that point in the video.

• Improve your English with over 450 YouTube channels featuring English audio and subtitles. Many of these channels also offer subtitle streams in other languages.

• Dive into Mandarin with over 80 channels and playlists featuring over 15,000 videos. Over 500 of these videos also have a second stream of English subtitles.

• Dive into Spanish with over 200 channels and playlists featuring over 30,000 videos. Over 10,000 videos also have a second stream of English subtitles.

• Immerse yourself in French culture with over 60 channels and playlists featuring over 7,000 videos. Over 2,500 of these videos also have a second stream of English subtitles.

• Dive into Vietnamese with 200 videos from eight channels.

• We also feature the YouTube channels of many popular language teachers.

• A list of videos you have watched and words/characters you have touched can be seen in the history tabs.

Use the Woodpecker app's web browser to browse foreign language websites and tap any word or character you need help with. The definition will be displayed in your language. Our dictionary feature works for free on most popular news websites.

We help English speakers learn French, Mandarin, Spanish, German and Vietnamese. We help Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Vietnamese speakers learn English.