How to learn words from sentences

Start with something you actually want to remember

A line from a book, a subtitle, a message, or an article gives you a reason to learn its vocabulary. PhraseCut works with multiple languages; English examples are a starting point, not a restriction.

For example: She made room for one more book. Reading the full sentence helps you distinguish room as space from room as a part of a house. A separate word translation alone may not make that distinction.

Read the full meaning before the word breakdown

Open the free online sentence translator and word breakdown, choose the source and translation languages, and analyze your sentence. The full sentence and each word are translated separately. Treat a single-word meaning as a clue and check it against the whole line, especially for idioms, relative pronouns, and words with several meanings.

Languages such as Chinese and Japanese do not require spaces between words. PhraseCut uses language-aware word segmentation for those inputs; for English and other space-delimited inputs, it displays individual words rather than merging them into phrases.

Find a sentence in an article that interests you

If you do not have a sentence in mind, the online tool can suggest short English excerpts by interest and length from Wikipedia, Global Voices, NASA, and Wikivoyage. These public sources keep updating, but a retrieved excerpt is not necessarily from today. Read the original article through its source link and keep the attribution and license with any excerpt you reuse. You can also paste text in other supported languages.

Listen to the sentence with the browser voice, adjust its speed, and repeat it before reading the translation. These are synthesized voices available on your device, not original publisher recordings.

Choose a manageable set of vocabulary

Select the words you want to practice rather than exporting everything automatically. The web export retains the source sentence and its translation, so a card for room still carries the line where you found it. The web page does not save a study history; export the current result or use the native app to keep a local collection.

Review with the original sentence attached

In the native app, add useful words or sentences to your study library and use the review page. If you prefer Anki, export Anki CSV from the web result or the app library, then map the file's columns to your note fields. See the CSV and Anki export guide for the difference between these two exports.

When reviewing, try to recall the meaning first, then look at the translation and the original sentence. A word can take a different meaning in a different sentence, so keep that context with the item.