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The Chrome extension is free to use, but Wilkinson and Apic are planning to add more features, like additional subtitles for dubbed dialogue, which would only be available for paid users.

There’s even a catalog of recommendations for movies and shows that are good to study. You can also slow down the dialogue or automatically pause playback at the end of every subtitle, so you can learn line by line. Hovering over a word produces a pop-up dictionary, and clicking the word lets you hear it. There’s a vocabulary-highlighting feature that grays out less common words, which is adjustable to match your vocabulary level. The tool works best as a supplement for people who already have some basic understanding of the language they’re learning. “I think a lot of people would enjoy studying a language with material they are already familiar with.” “For some languages (Farsi, for example), there’s only a limited amount of learning materials available,” Wilkinson said in an email. The extension was created by developers David Wilkinson and Ognjen Apic who experimented with making their own language learning software before collaborating on Language Learning with Netflix. It’s a clever service that makes use of Netflix’s massive catalog and all of the major languages in which it already offers subtitles, including Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. Language Learning with Netflix is a Chrome extension that lets you watch shows with two subtitles on at the same time so you can visually pair translations with dialogue and learn some new vocabulary in the process.

Learning a new language through immersion doesn’t mean you have to pack your bags and move to Europe for three months.