Fleex

That is precisely how I have learned English when I moved from Poland to the UK. Friends and other TV shows together with English subtitles is the best way to learn. I would love…

This is how I learned english. I watched all the seasons of Friends and stopped at (almost) every lines to translate words I couldn't understand (and make a list). I also learned…

Brilliant! This is exactly how a lot of us exposed to US and UK culture since a young age learned English. Although I've noticed that as I age, I have far less patience to watch…

Smart! Any plans to work with multiple languages? I'm an English-speaker, and I'd love something similar in the other direction.

Are you planning to provide the service in different languages?

And plans for doing this for other languages?

I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on…

Interesting! But it's annoying to see "Coming soon on Mac OS X" while the teaser video is showing a Mac app!

Why is it Windows-only, since it’s based on VLC which is available on Windows/Mac OS/Linux/…?

It crashed two times when I first tried to use it so I tried another file which didn't have subtitles. When I finally loaded a movie and downloaded my own subtitles that I…

Login to play => ??? => uninstall.

Please don't use flags for disambiguating languages. (http://flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-represent-language/) is a starting point. Basically - some languages…

Smart! Any plans to work with multiple languages? I'm an English-speaker, and I'd love something similar in the other direction.

Any idea if there's similar sites for different languages? I'm learning russian, but audio/video material with english (or finnish) subtitles is hard to find.

I want this for French. I couldn't even find TV shows in French with matching French subtitles. Any ideas where to look?

Waiting for the Mac version!

looking forward Mac version (or web version)

I do this process by downloading subtitles automatically with http://subdownloader.net/ or manually from http://www.opensubtitles.org/en and then play the tv series directly on…

Please, pretty please with sugar on top, also add the ability to delay the subtitles! From listening to a lot of Pimsleur I know that, for me, anticipation and correction is one…

Why are you getting the subtitles from? Are they good quality? And have you licensed the subtitles legally?

Where do the subtitles come from? Are there chinese subtitles available? I always recommended learning English through tv series since you learn about american culture as well,…

Great idea! Does it work with DVDs or is it limited to the (usually illegal) video files available online?

So let's say I have some movie without any kind of subtitles and I play it via Fleex... will it fetch automatically the English or Spanish subtitles? Or that only works with DVDs…

> Fleex shows you mixed subtitles, so you get the hard parts in your language and the easier parts in English. This seems like a Very Hard Problem. How did you approach it? Do…

How does the idiom detection work? Big DB of them in English?

Cool, looks like BabbleFlix, which I tried starting in 2009, but ran out of runway. Check out the videos on YouTube for so possible improvements.

Similar idea: explain.cc

To speedup learning one could give user a feedback, not just show him the subtitles. Something like http://englishcentral.com is doing.

I am not a native speaker, and I learned English from movies and TV shows available to me. It is very interesting to see that this idea is being commercialized only now. It would…