How to make flashcards from a YouTube video

Create complete flashcard sets in minutes using Weaver School's AI flashcard maker

Complete with custom AI images, voice pronounciation examples, example sentences, and romanized spellings.

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YouTube is one of the top sources language learners use to get exposed to their target language.

You can use it to learn new vocabulary, listen to different accents, and watch tutorials from language teachers across the world.

But how do you memorize and learn the words that you learn in the YouTube videos you watch? 

Sometimes you’ll even come across a video that seems like a gold-mine of new vocabulary that you know you’ll need later.

In the old days, pre-generative AI, you could have spent hours writing down the vocabulary, looking up translations, and then putting them in a notebook, spreadsheet, or some other place to keep track of it all.

If you’re serious about learning a language, then you’re probably already using flashcards to learn vocabulary words.

After all, flashcards are one of the easiest and effective ways to memorize vocabulary or topics in general.

But if you want to connect these two learning techniques together, how can you easily make flashcards from a YouTube video without spending hours combing through captions and making flashcards yourself?

Make flashcards from YouTube videos with Weaver School’s flashcard maker

I didn’t build the first YouTube flashcard maker, but I do think I built the best one so far, especially for language learning purposes.

I’ve tried the other available online tools for making flashcards, and almost all of them offer a way to create flashcards from a YouTube video. But they all have one major thing in common…

They’re all pretty bad.

I was frustrated with one tool when it came back with the most basic words possible from my video, and another that just kept returning random errors over and over with no feedback.

Another tool didn’t have two of the languages I wanted (Vietnamese and Thai).

All in all, I believe I’ve built the simplest, easiest to use, and overall best-working flashcard maker for language learners that will turn any YouTube video with captions into a full set of flashcards you can use to study.

So how does it work?

How to make flashcards from a YouTube video

All you need to do is follow these simple steps:

1. Give a name for your flashcard set

2. Paste in the full URL to the YouTube video

3. Enter in the language of the video (the language the captions are in)

4. Enter in your target language and your native language

5. Select if you want AI images and audio added to your flashcards

That’s really it. After that, wait a few minutes and you’ll have an entire set of flashcards ready to study so you can start memorizing the words you want to learn.

Let me show you how it looks:

First you’ll go to your flashcard sets page in your account, and then click on the “Create from YouTube” button.

After that, you’ll come to a page with a simple form where you put in all the flashcard set information that I mentioned above.

After you put in the information, click “Make AI Magic” and then you’ll be returned back to your flashcard sets page with a notification telling you your new flashcard set is being created from your chosen YouTube video.

Now all that’s left to do is wait.

What makes Weaver School’s version of this feature so good for language learners?

This flashcard tool is full of features for language learners, but let me run you through some of the most helpful.

Automatic Romanized versions

Number one, this is the only flashcard maker that automatically provides romanized versions of all vocabulary words and their examples we provide you.

That way if you’re a beginner, or at least not advanced, you can still get started learning your target language with ease.

On top of that, we’re the only one that provides human-sounding voice pronunciation examples for each word and example in your flashcard set.

Non-latin alphabet language support

Perhaps most importantly, we support many more languages. Many languages use non-latin alphabets, such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai. 

These languages have to be handled with extra care with Large Language Models (LLMs, i.e. ChatGPT) in order to get them to work properly. 

Most of the other flashcard tools don’t care enough to invest the time or energy needed to make a flashcard maker that accounts for these special cases.

However, I’m an avid language learner myself, and I use my own product every day to study Asian languages, so I’ve made sure this tool works for all non-latin alphabets.

It won’t take you long at all to appreciate the differences I’ve built into the flashcard maker here at the Weaver School.

Works with other language learning methods

No matter which method you’re currently using to learn your target language, this flashcards tool will fit perfectly alongside it.

I personally developed the tool while I was taking private online Korean lessons with a company called Berlitz. 

I was frustrated that I kept forgetting the vocabulary in between lessons and needed a way to memorize the words faster.

Flashcards were the first tool I wanted to use, but it took me hours to create the cards, look up the translations, copy and paste them into the cards. I barely had enough time left over to study.

Now I use this tool to make flashcards for all my Korean and Thai lessons.

Give it a try

Give my flashcard tool a try today and get your own totally personalized flashcard sets created just for you in minutes about whatever topic you want.

If you have any questions or special requests for new features, you can always email me at [email protected] and I’ll be happy to help you any way I can.