Last updated on 16 February 2025
SubaSub is a site that allows to search for a word or expression used in the common language of a foreign language from film dialogues.
A small online tool that should therefore satisfy all those who learn a language as well as those who love cinema 😉
SubaSub is very simple to understand and does not require instructions for use. The site lists the subtitles of thousands of films and allows you to search for a word or expression. No fewer than nine foreign languages are available, including English, Spanish, German, but also Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese or Russian.
You indicate the word or expression you are looking for, the language in which you want to see the word used and you just have to start the search.
At the speed of lightning, SubaSub will display all the listed passages in which the word appears. On the left the original expression, on the right the foreign language expression. A simple way to see the vocabulary used in a real context.
Under each passage, SubaSub also tells you the title of the film from which the dialogue is taken. A link allows you to consult the complete sheet on imdb.com and the word you have searched for appears at the top of the list where you can listen to it with a click in the two languages chosen.
Of course, we would have loved to be able to watch the extract from the film, but SubaSub does not offer it. Too heavy and too complicated, no doubt. In the meantime, the vocabulary index offered by this site is particularly important and it is difficult to take it into default.
SubaSub is free and ad-free. Nice to meet you.
Link: SubaSub
English
Absolutely awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Prof de FLE, this resource is a gold mine.
If you like to watch excerpts (rather series) with an expression in English there is Playphrase.me
On principle you type an expression and you hear it in many video clips, you can practice repeating it it is nice.