NoaLingua Glossary
Sentence mining
Sentence mining is collecting sentences you encounter in real material and turning them into review cards, rather than studying isolated word lists.
The argument for it is that a word learned inside a sentence carries its grammar, its register and its collocations with it. "Take" alone is nearly meaningless; "take a decision" versus "make a decision" is the actual thing to learn.
The usual cost is friction. Traditionally it means pausing the video, copying the sentence, finding a definition, making a card, and adding audio — enough steps that most people mine far less than they intend to.
In NoaLingua Saving a word captures the sentence, its translation, the source title and the exact timestamp in one action, and the card fills itself in afterwards. Where the sentence boundary was known, the speaker's own audio is captured with it.
Where this shows up in NoaLingua
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Try it on the next video 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 The Chrome Web Store still lists this as LinguaCue — same extension, rename in progress.- Free, and not a trial Every feature on the free plan — both PDF modes, shadowing, all 30 practice formats.
- No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.
- Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.
- Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.