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Hi r/learnpolish — I've been building a desktop tool called Octopus Lang for learning languages from your own films and books, and Polish is one of the supported languages.

Vocabulary is tracked by lemma, so all the conjugated and case forms of a word count as one word instead of dozens. And transcription runs locally with Whisper, so any Polish film or audiobook turns into study material without uploading anything.

You can export saved words to Anki with the audio clip and screenshot from the moment you saved them, so the cards land in your deck with the context already attached.

One-time license, $49.99, free tier with no card required. octopuslang.com if you want to take a look. Happy to answer questions about how it handles Polish specifically, or what's still missing.

I anyone is interested in fully test the app I can DM some lifetime licenses.

I had an idea for a desktop language tool a couple of months ago and been working on it since then. It's called Octopus Lang. You drop in a film or paste a YouTube link, it transcribes locally with Whisper. You drop in an EPUB and read it in a two-page view. Click a word for a dictionary lookup, or send the whole sentence to an LLM if you want a translation that actually fits the context. Vocab gets grouped by lemma, so when you save читаю the app also knows you've seen читаешь, читал, читала, читают. Saves a lot of re-tagging in a language like Russian. Demo video below, me running it on a Russian youtube video. Free tier is 20 videos and 5 books, no card. $50 once if you want to keep it.

https://reddit.com/link/1t6v23l/video/1nekiu5v0uzg1/player

https://octopuslang.com — happy to answer anything.

Octopus Lang — desktop app for learning Polish from films, YouTube, and books