--- title: "Save words while watching a video · NoaLingua" description: "Click a word in the subtitle and press Save. The card keeps the sentence, its translation, the video title and the exact second you were at." url: "https://noalingua.com/answers/save-words-while-watching/" language: "en" modified: "2026-09-08" license: "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- Answer # Saving words while you watch, with NoaLingua One key, and the sentence and the moment come with it Click the word in the subtitle line and press Save, or press S to keep the whole sentence. The card records the sentence, its translation, the video title and the exact timestamp at that instant — so the word is never separated from the moment you met it. Short answer One keystroke. The context is captured at the same instant, not reconstructed afterwards. Step by step ## Doing it with NoaLingua - 1 ### Turn the subtitles on The CC button in the player, or the c key. NoaLingua reads what the player is already showing; it does not create subtitles. - 2 ### Click the word you do not know The card opens with the meaning it has in this sentence, the grammar of the exact form you clicked, IPA and real examples. - 3 ### Press Save, or press S for the whole sentence Saving is instant. It does not wait for any lookup to finish, so a slow network never costs you the word. - 4 ### Open Learn when something is due The button in the page corner shows the number waiting, and the toolbar badge shows the same figure. [Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ocimolffhgpeeoifjpjhgikgfbnmlkdh) Opens the Chrome Web Store listing **NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF** — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer. The alternative, blocking the save until every lookup returns, means losing the word every time a network call is slow. That is exactly when you are most likely to be watching something. ### What the card remembers about where it came from The sentence, its translation, the source title and URL, and the exact timestamp — and each separate encounter, oldest first. With more than one it says so: "Met 4 times, across 3 videos." Where a frame was captured, the encounters render as a strip of thumbnails, and those same images travel into the Anki export. Get NoaLingua — free, and every feature included Dual subtitles on YouTube and Netflix, clickable words on any page and in any PDF, shadowing and spaced review — 28 languages, no account, and your deck stays on your own machine. [Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ocimolffhgpeeoifjpjhgikgfbnmlkdh) Opens the Chrome Web Store listing **NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF** — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer. - **Free** — every feature, not a trial - **No account** — nothing to sign up for - **Two dropdowns** — that is the whole setup ## More questions people ask NoaLingua Does this work on Netflix too? Yes. The word card, the dictionary, the grammar tables and Save are identical there. The card records the title and the moment exactly as it does on YouTube. What if I want the whole sentence rather than one word? Press S. The sentence is saved with its translation and the same source information, and you can still click individual words inside it later. Can I save a phrase rather than a single word? Drag across two or more words in the original line and release. A collocation cannot be understood word by word, because the meaning is in none of them individually. ## Where this is documented on NoaLingua [Dual subtitles on YouTube Both lines under the video, rebuilt into real sentences before anything is translated.](https://noalingua.com/features/youtube-dual-subtitles/)[The word card, in detail How the "in this sentence" line is decided, and when it is deliberately left out.](https://noalingua.com/features/word-lookup/)[What happens to a saved word next The ladder, the two schedules, and the three counters kept per word.](https://noalingua.com/features/vocabulary-review/) ### Related NoaLingua answers - [What is the best vocabulary builder Chrome extension?](https://noalingua.com/answers/vocabulary-builder-chrome-extension/) - [Can I practise with the words I saved myself?](https://noalingua.com/answers/practise-your-own-saved-words/) - [Can I make Anki cards with images and audio from a video?](https://noalingua.com/answers/anki-cards-with-images-and-audio/) ## Try it on the next thing you were going to watch anyway. Free, with every feature. No account, nothing to cancel, and your deck stays on your machine. [Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ocimolffhgpeeoifjpjhgikgfbnmlkdh) Opens the Chrome Web Store listing **NoaLingua — beyond dual subs: video, web, PDF** — free, no account, Chrome 138 or newer. - [Free, and not a trial Every feature on the free plan — both PDF modes, shadowing, all 30 practice formats.](https://noalingua.com/pricing/) - [No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.](https://noalingua.com/privacy/) - [Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.](https://noalingua.com/getting-started/) - [Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.](https://noalingua.com/docs/export-import/) [What happens after you install](https://noalingua.com/getting-started/) · [Pricing](https://noalingua.com/pricing/) · [What it cannot do](https://noalingua.com/limits/)