FilFluent is a website created specifically for English learners. It offers:
● Movies Analyzer — a tool that evaluates the subtitles of any movie you enter, combining this automated analysis with user feedback to determine an accurate English difficulty score.
● Movies Catalog — a collection where all analyzed movies are classified into the six CEFR levels according to their difficulty score. Users can contribute by rating movie difficulty to keep the catalog reliable and up to date.
Learning English through movies is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to improve your listening comprehension and vocabulary. However, choosing the right movie 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 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 film is first examined by Movie Analyzer, a tool that carefully analyzes the movie's 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 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 to the catalog, users are asked to give their own assessment, taking into account the above parameters. The user's feedback, combined with the tool's 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 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.