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Learning languages is hard.
Or is it?

Learn

with minimal effort.

Lack of time and dedication

... is what's keeping most people from advancing their language skills. You have to take des cours , sit down with vocabulary lists, or spend innombrables heures with learning apps.
Children don't have ce problème . They simply hear their parents speak and learn the meaning of words from context. They go about their lives, and eventually, they know a language. You can do this, too. Our tool exposes you to vocabulary from the desired foreign language in your daily life. You can absorb new vocabulary just from seeing it in-context, in text that you would have read anyway.

Apprends like a child again.

interactive popups in your text

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How it works

Timely is a software that integrates language learning into your web browsing. Our custom algorithms translate some of the words on the websites that you visit. By reading text in your native language with some foreign words sprinkled in, they subconsciously enter your memory. We select those words that are most useful to you at any given time based on your individual learning progress.

We offer a fire-and-forget tool: You switch it on, keep browsing the web, and a few months later you look back and are surprised by how much your vocabulary has grown. To complement this passive learning experience, we offer tailor-made exercises to solidify your knowledge.

Language learning done right

Smart Progression

For optimal progress, you need to study the right material at the right time. Learning new vocabulary needs to be balanced against revising and solidifying known words. The scientific gold standard for this is spaced repetition. We extend the concept of spaced repetition to our novel mechanism for learning from passive exposures.

Learning Exercises

Learning a language from passive exposures is a great way to effortlessly grow your vocabulary. But that doesn't mean that traditional exercises don't have their place. In fact, combining both will give you the most effective learning experience. Therefore, our software additionally offers exercises like flashcards, quizzes or fill-the-gap exercises.

Carefully Curated Material

For every language that we support, we have put a lot of care into designing an optimal learning course. We work with native speakers to ensure high-quality translations and provide example sentences for every word in our database. The courses come with an encyclopedia that explains grammar rules and exceptions.

Backed by Research

Does this actually work? Yes, it does! We've published a peer-reviewed paper including a carefully designed user-study that shows the effectiveness of our approach. The development of this software is backed by an InnoSuisse research grant and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL).

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