Built by teachers who got tired of pausing for the dictionary
We're a small remote team of language teachers and software engineers, working between Frankfurt and Berlin.
Where it started
In our own classes we kept seeing the same thing: students who watched films in the language they were learning improved faster — and gave up as soon as they got lost. Looking up a word broke the flow, and there was no teacher to ask at eleven at night.
We wanted a player where you could stop, ask, and carry on, and a library you could use without worrying about rights. Lingocine is that player.
How we keep it free
During the beta the library and the tutor are free. Later we plan optional paid features for heavy users and institutions; the free plan for individual learners will stay. We don't run ads and never will.
Where it runs
Video is served from our own media servers in Frankfurt, Germany. We chose a European host on purpose: short distances to learners across Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and data that stays in the EU.
The player adapts the video quality to your connection, so a chapter still plays on a slow mobile network.