Anata

Want to learn languages from your favourite actors & actresses of dramas/movies/podcasts/talk shows? Simply load a video or audio into Anata and you're all set to go!

Anata extracts texts and voices from video files, audio files and articles from web and local files. You can learn to speak the texts by following the original voices with different emotion from video and audio files, or Text-to-Speech synthesis for articles. After all there is always a story behind these voices that you love, it makes easier for you to remember them.

Important features:

1. Support 3 modes of text extraction:

• Subtitle
• Transcription
• Online Article, local PDF/EPUB file & Share Extension

1. Link to online language learning tools

• You can study the texts sentence by sentence and word by word with your favourite online tools
• Easy access to romanization for Japanese and pinyin for Chinese that can allow you to quickly learn how to pronounce each word
• Easy access to Accent guidance for Japanese to help you grasp the rhythm
• Easy access to grammatical breakdown to help you identify each part of speech
• You can highlight individual word and phrase of the texts to find out their meaning and usage
• Online tools are grouped by language so you have different sets of tools for learning different languages at the same time
• Anata comes with recommended online tools. You can use them out of the box or add your own
• Anata sends predefined prompts to chatbots (currently support ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Perplexity, Grok, Qwen, Vibe, Z.ai and Kimi) to analyse sentences/keywords and make sentences/stories. You can design your own prompts and let AI help you learn foreign languages

1. Search

• Once you have a few titles in Anata, you can start searching them for words and phrases and learn how to use them in different contexts
• Even when you come across a new word outside Anata, you can also search it in the App to see if it is used in your favourite dramas and movies
• If a word does appear in your library of dramas & movies, you can add it to Keyword for further study

1. Keyword

• You can collect new words and phrases as Keyword to enrich your vocabulary, which is important to become proficient in a language
• As in Search, each keyword will link to the titles in which it appears
• Keyword is also linked to online tools so you can perform in-depth study

1. Favourite

• If you like a particular “tile” (a term used to refer to a collection of text, image and audio clips for a subtitle text), you can add it to Favourite for future review
• You can add a small segment of the story that consists of multiple tiles to Favourite to preserve its entirety

1. Notes

• Notes taking enhances understanding and internalisation of what you have learned
• You can take notes for both Keyword and Tile
• You can study notes separately in the Notes section without navigating all the keywords and tiles, providing a quick way to refresh your memory of the key learning

1. Explain

• Anata provides a handy Explain section for you to send any ad hoc words and phrases to any online tools
• You can also add these ad hoc words / phrases to Keyword, no matter they are used in your library of titles or not
• You can access Explain from other Apps by highlighting and sharing text via Share Sheet

1. Multiple Languages Supported

• Japanese, Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified), Korean, German, French , Spanish, and English

1. In-App Purchase

• Anata is free for use for a limited number of titles and keywords that you can add; all functionalities of the App are available though
• Anata Unlimited is available for purchase in the In-App Purchase section

1. Non English App User Interface Language

• Currently support Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified) and Japanese as alternative user interface languages

Anata is meant to be a supplementary tool to your language learning need. It does not replace standard learning courses and textbooks. You are advised to acquire a basic knowledge of a language before you can reap the benefit of using Anata to improve your proficiency.