FilFluent is a website created specifically for English learners. It offers:
● Movie Analysis - TV Show Analysis: tools that analyze the subtitles of any title entered to return an accurate English difficulty score on a 0 to 10 scale.
● Catalog: a collection in which all analyzed movies and TV shows are classified into the six CEFR levels based on their English difficulty score. Users can contribute by voting to change the English difficulty score to keep the catalog reliable and up to date.
● Profile: a page where you can easily manage all the movies/TV shows you've watched.
Learning English through movies and TV shows is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to improve your listening comprehension and vocabulary. However, choosing the right content for your level is crucial: too difficult and you'll feel overwhelmed, too easy and you won't progress. FilFluent solves this problem by analyzing and classifying movies and TV shows to match them with your English proficiency level, making sure you get the optimal challenge for your learning journey.
Before being included in the catalog, each movie/TV show is first examined by Movie analysis/TV show analysis, tools that carefully analyze the subtitles. The analysis considers more than ten variables, including vocabulary complexity, lexical variability, speaking pace, and grammatical structure, to return an English difficulty score with an associated CEFR level. However, the automatic evaluation provided by this tool is not enough on its own. In fact, no algorithm can evaluate some of the parameters that make a movie or a TV show more or less complex, such as:
● Plot (a simple linear story is easier to follow than one with many flashbacks, time jumps, or complex narrative structures).
● Accents (a neutral accent is easier to understand than regional dialects or strong pronunciations).
● Metaphors, slang, and cultural references (elements strongly linked to the cultural context can be difficult for non-native speakers).
That's why, before adding a movie or TV show to the catalog, users are asked to give their own assessment, taking into account the above parameters. The user's feedback, combined with the tools analysis, will create a more reliable English difficulty score and CEFR classification. The score and CEFR level obtained are not definitive. Inside the catalog, users can give a positive or negative rating to the movie or TV show score by pressing the up or down arrow. This means that the FilFluent catalog is constantly updated and becomes more reliable every day thanks to user evaluations.
Please remember that, although combining an objective automatic assessment with a subjective human assessment ensures a high level of accuracy, this is an estimation tool. Always use this as a guide rather than a definitive measure of your ability to understand the movie or TV show.