Like a native speaker: listen, read, understand.

The Birkenbihl method is based on decoding texts: every sentence is translated word for word into your language. This lets you grasp the structure of the foreign language intuitively – without memorizing vocabulary or grammar rules.

You can import EPUB books, PDF documents, DOCX files, YouTube videos and audio files. FlowLingua automatically turns them into interlinear translations with word timing.

Yes. With a Flow subscription you can download content and learn completely offline. Your progress syncs automatically as soon as you're back online.

Yes. Flow and the audio add-on can be cancelled at any time. After cancelling, you keep your access until the end of the paid period.

FlowLingua supports a wide range of language pairs. You choose your native language and the language you want to learn – the translations are created automatically in your native language.

Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian – and new languages are added all the time. All languages at a glance

FlowLingua runs in the browser, on Android and on iPhone – your account and your progress sync across all your devices.

No. The word-for-word translation makes texts understandable even if you don't know a single word yet – and the better you get, the less help you need.

Shadowing is great for learning to speak: repeat sentences right after the native speaker – first aloud along with them, then slightly delayed. This works with any text that has audio. Reading along aloud also trains your pronunciation. More about this on the method page.

FlowLingua focuses on real content you understand – not vocabulary quizzes and points. You learn with books, videos and audio that genuinely interest you.

Do you understand less than half? First skim to see what it's about. Then press play and silently read along the word-for-word translation for the unknown words while you hear the original – the words stick. If you understand more than half, just follow the audio and only glance at the translations when you need to.

Every step has a clear goal instead of a time limit: 1) If you understand less than half, skim the text beforehand until you know what it's about. 2) Read along silently until you understand everything effortlessly – even without looking at the text. 3) Passive listening is optional – as long as you like. 4) Read along aloud and do shadowing until you can keep up half a second behind without the text.