English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean... whatever you want. An AI-powered learning platform with YouTube videos. Support for 100+ languages 11 different AI-powered practice modes per video Instant AI feedback on your mistakes Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. Neil, what do the following animals have in common? Neil, what do the following animals have in common? Unlimited content, AI-powered practice. YouTubers, films, series, cartoons, documentaries, vlogs, talk shows... Learn a language through whatever you are into! We combine the unlimited content of YouTube with the power of AI and hand it to you for your language learning journey. Let the AI build 11 different exercises for any video you like, covering all four core skills including speaking, and tell you instantly what you got wrong and how to fix it. Watch & Understand Pick a video at your level, one you can follow about 80 percent of, and do not just watch it: take the content in deeply. Seamless YouTube integration Search any video without leaving the platform, save it, and study it again and again whenever you like. Auto-synced translations Follow the dual subtitles perfectly as the video plays. Tap any sentence that confuses you and let the AI explain the whole thing in context with examples, instead of just translating a word. Don't worry! Learn the language ... Talking about worries Real English Everyday I'm Neil. Remember, you can watch a video version of this podcast. I'm Neil. Remember, you can watch a video version of this podcast. How are you today, Georgie? I'm very well, thank you. How are you today, Georgie? I'm very well, thank you. Turn passive watching into active fluency. Stop just listening and start producing. Reinforce everything you’ve learned through a variety of targeted exercises, all automatically generated from your chosen video. Listen to each scene and write what you hear, and let the AI check it instantly. Do fill-in-the-blank exercises and test yourself with multiple-choice questions that measure whether you really understood the content. Put the words from the video into practice by explaining them in your own sentences. Answer open-ended questions or chat with the AI about the video in writing, and get detailed feedback instantly. Grasp the rules through the sentences in the video rather than through theory. Reinforce your grammar with multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions built from the context you just watched. Build your own digital vocabulary notebook. Save the important words you meet in a video and expand your vocabulary for good with 2 different AI exercises that test what those words mean. Listen to each scene and write what you hear, and let the AI check it instantly. Do fill-in-the-blank exercises and test yourself with multiple-choice questions that measure whether you really understood the content. Reinforce what you watched by speaking. Do not just watch and move on: speak. Chat with your AI speaking coach about the video, repeat sentences out loud, and see your mistakes, the corrections and more natural sample answers in a detailed report at the end.

Speak with the AI Have a natural conversation about the video you watched. Answer questions, explain your thoughts and share your own opinions on the topics it covers. See your mistakes, say it better At the end of the conversation, review the mistakes you made, the corrected sentences and the more natural sample answers you could have given. Then repeat those samples out loud to lock in the right usage. Listen and repeat Listen to the sentences in the video first, then repeat them out loud. Let the AI catch the words you skipped or said wrong and rate your pronunciation, fluency and rhythm. See your mistakes, the corrections and sample answers in one place. How do you learn English? The same way we learn everything else: first enough input (listening / reading), then production (writing), and finally automaticity, which is speaking. For a skill to become automatic, it has to move from the processing centre of your brain to the centre that runs automatic behaviour such as playing the piano or riding a bike, and that only happens through repetition. You have to meet the same things over and over, and do the same things over and over. 1 . Prepare your mind for English Learning does not stop the moment you close your books. Your brain keeps processing the words and sentence patterns you heard during the day while you walk, take a shower, rest and sleep. But if your mind is constantly busy with work problems, plans and worries, those are what run in the background, not English. Your brain works on whatever you treat as a priority, so you have to move English closer to the centre of your life. 2 . Meet real English every day Grammar is not input. Input means reading, listening to and watching real English. Watch a video, read a story or listen to a podcast that you understand about 80 percent of. Choose content you love, because you will not learn a language from content that bores you. Pick things you enjoy so much that you forget you are studying. Instead of five hours in one day and then a two or three day break, study one hour every day. Our advice is two hours of English a day. 3 . Choose content with a story, not disconnected facts The brain works through connections. Isolated flashcards, fifteen-second clips with bite-sized facts and word-of-the-day posts catch your attention and entertain you, but they never connect what you learn. Words stay with you when they come back inside a story, a conversation or a topic. So choose content with context and a continuation instead of random short clips. That is also why Tombik was not built as a flashcard-swiping dopamine app, but around real content. 4 . Consume first (listening / reading), then produce (writing / speaking) Before you can speak and write, you need to have seen and heard enough English. Reading, listening and watching give your mind the words and sentence patterns you will use later. Staying quiet at the beginning is normal, so do not worry about it. Speaking and writing are the natural result of listening and reading. Read, listen and watch intensively. 5 . Speaking is a reflex If you say “I understand but I cannot speak”, it means you have not done enough listening and reading yet, so fix that first. Besides, you cannot learn to swim by watching swimming, and you cannot learn to ride a bike by reading about it. You cannot build speaking by watching videos alone either. The first step of speaking is imitation, and that step is called reading out loud: repeating sentences aloud, again and again. Tombik gives you the video subtitles as a download, so read them out loud. 6 . The first step of speaking: read out loud, speak out loud Read out loud. Repeat the sentences aloud many times and imitate the speaker's rhythm and stress. Write as well, because you have to learn to produce before you can speak, and writing is the best way to do that. Speaking is writing, sped up and made automatic. After that, talk to the AI, and in Tombik that is not a random conversation but one about the topics in the video you watched. Finally, talk to real native speakers. 7 . Repetition matters more than the best method Even with the best method in the world, nothing becomes automatic without enough repetition, and even with the worst method in the world, enough repetition makes it automatic and you learn the language. Watching a video once is consuming content; coming back to the same video is learning. The first time you follow the topic, the second time you notice the words, and in later rounds you notice sentence patterns, pronunciation and stress. You can study one video for a week and watch it ten times. Do not keep jumping to new content: choose a little, study it deeply and repeat it. 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