The search is usually this
People do not open Chrome looking for another course. They want the words from the article, the docs, the blog — without copy-pasting into a translator and without turning the page into a quiz. Flashcards (Anki, Quizlet) are good at review. They are silent while you actually read.
BrowseAndLearn sits in that gap. Enable it on a site. Useful words get a highlight. Hover (or tap) for the translation. Keep going. Chrome stays in English. Coverage is a slider, and lookalikes that already match stay unmarked so the page does not scream.
How vocabulary sticks here
A word you meet in a sentence you cared about is easier to keep than a word on a card you scheduled. That is not a new theory; it is why people highlight novels. The extension just does the highlighting for the language you picked, and only for words that are worth noticing.
- You were going to read the page anyway.
- A short list of words lights up instead of the whole paragraph.
- The meaning appears on hover, then gets out of the way.
It will not replace speaking practice. It will not invent a curriculum. It will not claim that every site on the internet is a perfect graded reader.
Languages
One subscription covers all twelve pairs with English. Spanish is the flagship. Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic run both ways (EN↔). Hebrew is English → Hebrew. Switch from the extension settings.
What this is not
It is not a streak app, a classroom, or a dual-subtitle player for Netflix. For video, tools like Language Reactor are built for that job — see Language Reactor alternative. For a click-to-translate reader with its own flashcards, see Readlang alternative.
Questions
Is this a flashcard app?
No. There is no daily deck and no spaced-repetition classroom. Words are marked on the live page. If you want Anki-style review, keep Anki; this is for the reading you were going to do anyway.
Which sites does it work on?
Ordinary articles, blogs, and docs in the browser. It stays off sensitive sites such as banking and healthcare. It is not a Netflix or YouTube subtitle tool.
Which languages can I learn vocabulary in?
Twelve languages paired with English: Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic in both directions, plus Hebrew as English → Hebrew.
Price
There is a free week, then $5 a month. Cancel anytime. No user counts or review scores on this page — those belong on the Chrome Web Store listing if they exist.