It all started with a simple realization during a trip to Rio 🇧🇷. I had spent weeks learning Portuguese with the little green bird, feeling confident enough—until I landed in Brazil and understood almost nothing of how people actually spoke. The gap between textbook Portuguese and real-life Portuguese was huge. So I tried a different approach: immersing myself in Brazilian social media. My goal was simple : understand the culture from the inside and eventually speak like a real Carioca. Surprisingly, it worked. The day the price of my coconut 🥥 dropped from 20 to 10 Reais felt like a small but meaningful confirmation. That’s when the idea clicked: why not help everyone learn a language the same way they naturally consume content, by scrolling? From that insight, Short Learn was born: an app that lets people learn languages through social media content, without changing their habits. Here’s how it works in practice: 📱 You scroll in the language you want to learn 📤 You send the video to Short Learn 📚 A lesson appears on top of your feed with a summary, translation, vocabulary, and grammar points tailored to your level 🧠 To review later, your vocabulary can be exported directly to Quizlet or Anki The spirit of Short Learn is clear: if we do this right, maybe one day we’ll get those coconuts down to 5 Reais. There’s a free tier with 3 videos right after sign-up, then 1 free video per day. The full experience is available for $6.99/month or $69/year. ✅

Short Learn

Turn doomscrolling into language lessons

Turn doomscrolling into language lessons