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Learn a new language just by browsing the internet.
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Learn a new language the natural way
Toucan helps you absorb new languages naturally by blending them into your online activities. Because the more you see and hear a new language, the faster you learn it.
How it works
➤ Each time you visit a website, Toucan translates certain words and phrases into the language you’re trying to learn. That way, you can learn your new language using context clues in one you already know.
Available languages:
English | Spanish | French | Japanese | German | Korean | Portuguese | Italian | Arabic | Chinese (Mandarin) | Hebrew | Hindi
Toucan’s Features
The more you practice, the faster you learn. And everyone learns differently so, instead of quizzes, tests and grades, Toucan created a variety of features to give you fun micro-moments of learning throughout your day
➤ Shortcuts
You don’t have to know every word of a language to be able to speak it. Toucan’s Shortcuts teach you words and phrases for common situations, like ordering food at a restaurant or finding the bathroom.
➤ Extra Practice
Toucan’s Extra Practice inserts mini practice sessions into Google, Twitter and Reddit. So you can master verb conjugations, grammar and sentence structure to make your new language stick.
➤ Save words for later
See a translation that you really want to remember? Toucan helps you learn helpful words more quickly by saving them to review and practice later.
And if you run into any trouble, you can email [email protected] to get help from our fantastic customer support team.
*************** YOUR PRIVACY IS TOUCAN’S TOP PRIORITY ***************
While we’re sure you’re a super interesting person, Toucan does not have any interest in tracking what sites you visit, what you search for, what you buy or anything else other than the language you’re trying to learn. It’s just not our thing.
Learn more about Toucan’s privacy policy at https://www.babbel.com/legal/privacy
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-20) Bob Loucks: Buggier than big orange presidents :(
- (2025-04-28) Nozomi Maki: I would like to this application to study English. However, I speak Japanese so I cannot choose this one as a native language. I hope this will update soon.
- (2025-04-24) 李淉: Why is it that after three years, your development team still hasn't catered to native Chinese speakers?
- (2025-04-18) Nafis Hasnain: The extension is incredibly buggy - everytime I click on the settings option, it doesn't open. Only a handful of times have I seen the settings option to even work. It's a very frustrating user experience, and I hope the Toucan team fixes this soon.
- (2025-03-22) Lonco Mapu: Really nice, it works perfectly at least for me. Toucan Team pls add Russian, it is speaked in all eastern europe, would be a tool for travellers or workers.
- (2025-01-31) Pablo Fiorentini: It worked for a while and now it doesn't work anymore and I can't understand why. To be improved, many bugs and some things could be done better. The application has potential, but for chinese I experience problems. pinyin is useful and many times is missing
- (2025-01-25) Edil Dias: Didn't work consistently in the Arc Browser, idk if it is because of the browser or something else. But the app has a great value proposition. But as an Arc browser user, 3 stars.
- (2024-12-10) Muthukumar C. R.: I am trying to learn Italian. Had been learning the basics before through audio books. Toucan seemed like something new. A new approach to learning. It is Unique in a way, I get to learn in the middle of other browsing stuff, instead of spending separate time for it. Just tried it for a few days and I didn't even realize that I started picking up Italian words. Great job! Hope there would be advanced additions in the future.
- (2024-12-07) George Lippert: This is just a simple but brilliant approach to language learning! I can't thank you enough.
- (2024-11-27) Jared Ratcliff: Has good potential, but as other users have said, very buggy. clicking the plugin icon rarely actually opens the settings panel-- thus preventing me from disabling it on certain websites.
- (2024-11-26) Ben J: its good for the most part, but it has its issues 1. it takes too many resources 2. once you get a word fully learned it should only show it to you very rarely, but for me "comida" a word I learned in the first week still shows up nearly every time it can 3. I wish they would add latin and greek
- (2024-11-15) R Phipps: A genius app! You just learn as you scroll. Learning the vocabulary in a foreign language seems very natural now. I can not recommend it anymore highly. It is a must have!
- (2024-10-29) Matt Bennett: Has potential to be great, but too buggy to be of much use. Most of the time the extension icon does not respond to clicks to load the dashboard, making it extremely frustrating and time-consuming to turn off the extension for certain websites. Uninstalling the extension now and will check on it again in the future to see if it's working any better.
- (2024-10-06) Vasyl Pavlyuchok Tyshchenko: Not working at all on my Mac BookPro. They say to refresh the page because any technical problem. I couldn't even choose the language right. lol Not worth my time.
- (2024-09-24) ivy: it has a lot of bugs and i wish you could set more than one language as your already known languages. for instance i'm spanish but have a c2 on english so i often search pages on both languages so i would love it that no matter what site i'm in it will still translate random words to my target language.
- (2024-09-24) Soggiest Napkin: Works pretty nicely, I don't know how much of my personal information is being scraped, but it doesn't work with youtube.
- (2024-09-16) Julia Leyva: This is an awesome idea but I had to delete it because it was so glitchy. It's actually really helpful to have foreign language words in a contextual setting, great way to learn, but not if it's crashing your browser every 2 minutes.
- (2024-09-10) XD icecream: I speak chinese and I want to learn ...
- (2024-09-03) Daniel Middleman: This would be a cool app if it wasn't a total resource hog. I've tried it on three different chrome-based browsers and this extension freezes up my mouse cursor and the browser and I end up using the task manager to force the browser to shut down.
- (2024-08-17) Okan Ayaz: I'm looking forward to the Turkish language being added. Good luck!
- (2024-08-16) Alessio Koci: text selection is not working
- (2024-08-16) Lan Yuzheng: Very good app but shame it does not support Chinese as native language.
- (2024-07-27) David (Davk): I am looking for all posible ways to improver my Spanish. I have to admit that this is working for me. No issues with the plugin itself
- (2024-07-21) Hams Profrogger: 5 stars for effort. 4 stars for execution but I’m really like it and I’ve only been using it for a couple of days. If this is a backdoor marketing tactic for Babbel then it sure is working. I’ll see how it develops and if it goes well I’ll check the rest of their language learning offerings. (english speaker here learning espagnol)
- (2024-07-11) Gemma Hascus: Love it but please add Dutch (Nederlands) as a language!
- (2024-06-30) Sasha: Would be so much better if you could choose multiple languages.... I'm fluent in Japanese, but my kanji's a bit rusty. However, I'm a beginner in Korean. Wish I could use both at the same time, it sucks that you can't...
- (2024-06-29) Adrian “Big Challenges” Olives: I realize this is nitpicky, but Toucan supports Spain Spanish and not Latin American Spanish. This really isn't a huge barrier to usage, but is annoying.
- (2024-06-17) Apollo: No issues so far, but there are SO many positives. Going on websites I frequent and having to decipher the hiragana I know of Japanese in the middle of a sentence, then guess what the word means based on context. As a novice Japanese learner, it has already helped me!
- (2024-06-17) Apollo: No issues so far, but there are SO many positives. Going on websites I frequent and having to decipher the hiragana I know of Japanese in the middle of a sentence, then guess what the word means based on context. As a novice Japanese learner, it has already helped me!
- (2024-05-31) Isabela Maria: one of the best things that humankind has ever produced
- (2024-05-31) Isabela Maria: one of the best things that humankind has ever produced
- (2024-05-07) Karol Jesionka (KAMJE): WAIT FOR POLISH
- (2024-05-07) Karol Jesionka (KAMJE): WAIT FOR POLISH
- (2024-04-11) Lance Johnson: Really useful addon
- (2024-04-07) Alice “Chi” Raabe: Warms my heart everythime i see a word that i learned using toucan. Still far away from really know the language, but getting accoustumed to it helps a lot. Sometimes gets too much RAM, which is expected, but you can just use ctrl+e shortcut to disable until your pc gets some fresh air.
- (2024-04-07) Alice “Chi” Raabe: Warms my heart everythime i see a word that i learned using toucan. Still far away from really know the language, but getting accoustumed to it helps a lot. Sometimes gets too much RAM, which is expected, but you can just use ctrl+e shortcut to disable until your pc gets some fresh air.
- (2024-04-04) Ab: Doesn't work. Gave it permission for the site, logged in. Selecting words does nothing, nor are there words that are marked out. Tried on different websites.
- (2024-03-21) boox my: It is a great app but There is no way to download the words saved to the system .
- (2024-03-16) Zoran M: Used to be better before taken over by Babbel. Another organisation now that wants to harvest your name and email adress just to let you have a peek at what their extension does. Reading the reviewes here, it's not worth giving up your privacy for it.
- (2024-03-02) Krys Tropicales: really nice. thanks so much for helping me, i learn a lot from it everyday
- (2024-03-02) Krys Tropicales: really nice. thanks so much for helping me, i learn a lot from it everyday
- (2024-02-14) Piotr Kaminski: It is kinda lame, it still chooses to translate the same set of basic words i already mastered, and completely ignores the rest of text, no matter which difficulty level i choose. So..no progress...
- (2024-02-14) Ali Yadollahi: I can't learn English. Because my language is Farsi(Persian) and I need to learn English and your app not support them.
- (2024-02-11) Fernando Victor: ótima extensão para quem buscar o aprendizado de línguas
- (2024-02-09) Daniela Iñiguez: Muy buena app, me ayuda a aprender y mejorar mi inglés.
- (2024-02-08) Conni_Chan: i really like it, just wish it was on opera/opera GX too
- (2024-02-06) medogum gum: there is a problème the extension show eerror !
- (2024-01-06) Jair Cunha: It~s very good!
- (2024-01-06) Jair Cunha: It~s very good!
- (2024-01-03) Lucas RT: pretty cool, but please add support for multiple source languages 😁