Lens visual dictionary

Turn a picture into a visual dictionary

Sometimes a word is easier to remember when you can connect it directly with what it refers to.

Lens lets you use any suitable image as the background for an interactive vocabulary scene.

You can upload a photo or other picture and place words and expressions directly onto the objects, areas or details you want to learn.

The result is a visual dictionary built around a scene that is meaningful to you.

Place vocabulary where it belongs

Add clickable markers anywhere on the image and connect each one with a word or expression from your vocabulary set.

For example, a picture of a kitchen could include the names of objects, actions and useful expressions connected with cooking.

A street scene could contain buildings, signs, vehicles and phrases you may need while travelling.

Because the vocabulary stays attached to a specific place in the image, you can see the connection between the word and what it describes.

Add new words while you work

You do not have to prepare all the vocabulary before creating a scene.

If you notice something in the picture that you want to learn, you can add a new word or expression directly from Lens without leaving the image.

You can also add a context sentence or example to help you remember how the expression is used.

This makes it possible to build the visual vocabulary naturally as you explore the picture.

Build scenes from your own vocabulary

Lens works together with Voca Sets, so the same vocabulary collection can also have a visual form.

You can start with words you already have and arrange them on an image, or begin with the picture and add vocabulary as you go.

This gives you another way to organise and revisit the same language instead of keeping it only in a list.

Connect visual vocabulary with the rest of Vocafy

Words and expressions you work with in Lens do not have to remain only inside the picture.

They can be sent for further language processing in Vocafy, where additional information such as pronunciation and language details can be added where available.

This lets vocabulary discovered visually become part of the wider language information used elsewhere in Vocafy.

Create scenes for the things you actually want to learn

A visual dictionary does not have to be a generic picture of a classroom or a kitchen.

You can use an image that matches your own interests, work or daily life.

For example, you could label your own workspace, a workshop, a garden, a map, a product photo or a place you are preparing to visit.

This makes Lens useful not only for basic object names, but also for building vocabulary around a particular environment or topic.