English at B2: what actually works

Every English tool worth your hours at the upper intermediate stage — ranked by what put real input in learners’ ears, not by who paid. 2 of these are free. The famous-but-inefficient ones get an honest heads-up instead of a hiding.

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    Language ReactorFree On-method

    Turns Netflix and YouTube into a comprehensible-input machine — dual subtitles, hover-to-translate, save words straight from what you watch. The single best free tool on this list.

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    AnkiFree On-method

    The spaced-repetition workhorse. Mine sentences from your input, review them daily, the words stick. Ugly, free, and undefeated. (Costs money only on iOS.)

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