Learn from what you find on the web
The web is full of language you may actually want to understand: an unfamiliar expression in an article, a story worth reading or a YouTube video about something that interests you.
Vocafy – Learn from the Web is a browser extension that lets you bring this material into Vocafy while you are browsing.
You do not have to copy everything into a separate notebook or build a collection of links to deal with later. Vocafy sends different kinds of content to the part of the app where you can actually learn from them.
Save a word or phrase with its context
If you find a useful word or expression on a web page, select it and save it to Vocafy.
The extension also captures the sentence around it when possible, so the vocabulary is saved together with the context where you found it rather than as an isolated word.
It becomes part of your learning memory, where you can return to it and work with it alongside vocabulary saved from books, videos, songs and other parts of Vocafy.
If you encounter a word you have already saved, Vocafy can keep the new encounter and its context without simply creating another copy of the same vocabulary item.
Turn an article into reading practice
When you find an article or other text you would like to read more carefully, you can save the readable part of the page to Vocafy.
The extension prepares the main content without the surrounding navigation, menus and other unnecessary parts of the page. Before saving, you can preview what was found.
The article then becomes a private reading item in Vocafy, with its original source attached.
From there, you can work with it using the same reading tools available for other supported texts: read at your own pace, look up unfamiliar words, save useful vocabulary and use available language support while you read.
You can also select a longer passage instead of a single word. When the selection is better suited to reading than vocabulary practice, Vocafy can save it as reading material instead.
Bring a YouTube video into Vocafy
If you find a useful YouTube video, you can prepare it directly from the video page.
When subtitles are available, choose the subtitle track you want to learn from and save the video to Vocafy.
The video then appears in Videos with its title, thumbnail and timed subtitles ready to use.
You can follow the subtitles while watching, jump to individual sentences, replay difficult lines, look up words, save vocabulary and switch to a full transcript when you want to work with the language as text.
The extension does not download the YouTube video itself. Vocafy uses the original video together with the available subtitle information.
No separate inbox to organise later
Saving something should not create another list of things you may never return to.
A word or expression becomes part of your learning memory. Reading material goes to your Reads. A supported YouTube video goes to Videos.
This means the content is already in the part of Vocafy where you can continue working with it.
Keep the source when it matters
Context is useful not only for understanding a word but also for remembering where it came from.
Saved vocabulary can keep the sentence where you encountered it, while imported reading material keeps information about its original source and a link back to the page.
This makes it easier to return to the original material when you need it.
Save first, continue learning in Vocafy
The browser extension is mainly a bridge between the language you encounter on the web and the learning tools inside Vocafy.
A word you save can become part of your review and learning memory. An article can become interactive reading practice. A YouTube video can become listening material with subtitles you can explore sentence by sentence.
You can therefore start with content you discovered naturally and continue learning from it without rebuilding it manually inside the app.
Explore Learning Memory & Review
Only when you choose to use it
The extension works when you ask it to save or prepare something. It does not need to continuously read the pages you visit or build a history of your browsing.
You connect it to your Vocafy account without giving the extension your Vocafy password, and you can disconnect its access from your account settings.
Turn what you find online into something you can learn from
Save useful vocabulary with its context, turn articles into reading practice, or bring YouTube videos and subtitles into Vocafy.