FilFluent is a website specifically designed to help English learners find content that best matches their proficiency level. It offers:
● Movie/TV Show Catalog – Book Catalog: A collection where movies, TV shows, and books are classified into the six CEFR levels based on their English difficulty score. Users can contribute by voting (or by making comparisons, in the case of books) to adjust the English difficulty score, ensuring the catalog remains reliable and up to date.
● Movie Analysis – TV Show Analysis – Book Analysis: Tools that allow users to add missing content to the catalog. The Movie and TV Show Analysis tools analyze the subtitles of any title entered and provide an accurate English difficulty score on a scale from 0 to 10. The Book Analysis tool asks users to compare the searched book with other books already in the catalog in order to assign it an English difficulty score.
● Profile: a page where you can easily manage all the movies/TV shows you’ve watched and the books you’ve read.
Science suggests that to maximize language learning, English learners should consume content that is slightly above their current level, providing a manageable challenge that promotes the acquisition of new vocabulary and language structures.
Learning English through movies, TV shows, and books is one of the most effective and enjoyable ways to improve proficiency. 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, TV shows, and books, making sure you get the optimal challenge for your learning journey.
Movies and TV shows have an “English Difficulty” score determined by a combination of subtitle analysis and user feedback.
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.
Before being added to the catalog, each book is analyzed by the Book Analysis tool, which assigns an English Difficulty score based on user comparisons.
Before being added to the catalog, each book is analyzed by the Book Analysis tool. This tool (available only to users who have marked at least three books as “read” in the catalog) assigns an English Difficulty score to the analyzed book based on user comparisons.
In the Book Analysis tool, users are asked to search for a title and compare the searched book with three books they have already marked as “read” in the catalog. For each book, comparisons are made across three categories:
● Vocabulary (books with common, everyday words are easier to understand than those with advanced, specialized, or literary language).
● Grammar and sentence structure (simple sentences and straightforward grammar are easier to follow than complex syntax, long sentences, or sophisticated writing styles).
● Plot and themes (clear, accessible stories are easier to comprehend than books with abstract themes, layered narratives, or deep philosophical content).
The result of the comparisons assigns an English Difficulty score to the book, which will be added to the catalog.
In the catalog, users can rate the books they have read (helping adjust the English Difficulty score) by making comparisons. Once a user has marked two or more books as “read,” the “Compare” button becomes available, allowing them to compare those books based on the categories described above.
These comparisons help update the English Difficulty score for both books(a single book can receive a maximum of 10 comparisons from a user). As a result, the increase in users and the number of comparisons made will enhance the reliability of the ratings.
Please remember that this is an estimation tool. Always use this as a guide rather than a definitive measure of your ability to understand a book.