Hari is a Chrome extension that quietly swaps bits of English for Tagalog on the sites you already browse — news, Wikipedia, Reddit, social feeds — with an instant hover dictionary and spaced repetition built in. No flashcards, no separate study block, no streak to keep alive. It's made specifically for Filipino Americans who understand more Tagalog than they can speak, and want to close that gap using the time they already spend online.
About Hari
A Chrome extension built by one person, for one reason: to help Filipino Americans reconnect with Tagalog without asking for more of their time.
Why I Built Hari
A personal tool made for real reconnection
My girlfriend is Filipino-American, and she's always wanted to actually learn Tagalog, not just understand bits of it from family gatherings — to actually hold a conversation with her lola on the phone instead of waiting for someone to translate. But between work and school, she never had a real block of time to sit down with a course or grind through an app every night.
It wasn't that she didn't want it badly enough. It was that every option out there expects you to carve out extra time for it. So I tried building the opposite: something that works with the time she already spends online instead of asking for more of it.
That turned into Hari. It quietly swaps in Tagalog words while she's browsing like she normally would, so she's picking things up on the same sites she was already scrolling through anyway, one tab and one sentence at a time — slowly closing the gap between understanding more Tagalog than she could actually speak.
I build and support Hari myself. If something's broken, confusing, or just not working for you, I read every message that comes in.
Salamat,
Daniel “Jack”
Partners
Hari's Founding Partner is FASOU, the Filipino Club at Oakland University. We team up with Filipino student and cultural organizations to help more people reconnect with the language.
Get in touch
Questions, bug reports, or feature requests — all welcome. Email [email protected] or join the Discord.
Read more
Hari also publishes a blog on Tagalog learning, Filipino culture, and heritage-language research.