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Mostly dubs, and it is worth knowing before you start. Pulp Fiction, Inception and the rest come from their German dub tracks, so the words are the German a dubbing studio wrote. Studios work in neutral Hochdeutsch with no dialect, clearly spoken, which makes it easy listening and a poor place to look for street speech. It is a good place to start, because you already know the plot. Das Boot, Das Leben der Anderen and M are German productions, so their subtitles carry the dialogue the actors speak.

No. Langvie works from the subtitle vocabulary alone, so a film's deck stands on its own whether or not you have ever seen it. Watching it afterwards is the reward. A film that streams carries a link to Amazon Prime or YouTube, for the evening you do want to watch, and the short videos play inside the app.

Both now space words with FSRS, so a word comes back on the same kind of schedule in either. What Anki does not hand you is a reason to learn a particular word today. A word off a frequency list is one you have never used and never heard, and that is where most German decks die. Every word here is one you are about to hear, in a film you chose, in the line it is spoken in. If your card-making habit is already running, keep Anki. If it keeps dying on you, this is the part that was missing. You can also bring your deck over in one .apkg file. Each card keeps its schedule, taken as is from an FSRS deck or converted from an older one, so a word you have known for a year is not put in front of you tomorrow. A card you suspended stays out.

It installs from the browser instead, which gives you the same home screen icon and the same full screen app without a store account in the way. Store versions may come later.

German and English each have a library and a course. German has films, series, videos, articles and exam word lists. English has films of its own, a season of Friends, word lists for the Life in the UK test and the US citizenship interview, and everyday topic decks. Polish and Italian each have a first title. The app reads in English, German, Ukrainian, Russian or Spanish, and the meaning on a card comes in English, Spanish, Ukrainian or Russian, whichever you pick when you start.

A chapter teaches one grammar rule through one topic. It opens with the rule and a short check, then deals the topic's words as cards. An AI partner then asks you to use both in a conversation, and a word game closes the chapter. From B1 a reading text comes before the conversation. The German course is open from A1 to C1, and C2 is being written. The English course is open from A1 to B1. The first three chapters of every level are free.

Yes, and at B2 you can take a practice exam. In Austria it follows the ÖIF-Test B2, and in Germany the Deutsch-Test für den Beruf B2, part by part. An AI grades the writing and the speaking by the exam's own criteria, and the ÖIF results also show which grammar and words to repeat. From A1 to B1 the Word Collections follow the topics of the ÖIF Integrationsprüfung and the BAMF test, such as Wohnen, Arbeit and Ämter und Behörden. The B2 to C2 lists follow the ÖSD topics. In Speaking, filter the topics by your exam, ÖIF or DTZ, and a partner corrects you as you talk. The exam texts are our own, and nothing in Langvie is an official exam product.

No. A teacher who invites you to a class sees counts and dates. That means how many words you know and are learning, how many you started this week, your level bars, and fourteen days of activity. A teacher never sees the words themselves. The invitation says so before you accept, and leaving the class ends the access the same day.

Every German word in the catalog is recorded, so the front of a card carries a speaker under the word. A noun is spoken with its article, which is the part reading never teaches you. Pick a Germany or an Austria accent once in settings and every card uses it, and English cards speak in an American or a British accent. Hold the microphone to say a German word back and the card scores your pronunciation. That score works with the Germany accent for now, because the speech check does not cover Austrian German yet.

Call them estimates. A word's level comes from the Goethe Institut word lists for A1, A2 and B1, which are the vocabulary those exams publish. A word on none of the three is graded instead by how common it is in German, using a frequency ranking built from subtitles. That sorts a film's difficulty well enough for the filter, but it cannot tell that Fall is A2 as a case and B2 as a legal term. Word Collections and articles work the other way round: each is written for its level, so the level is a fact about the list rather than an estimate.

With FSRS-5, the scheduler Anki has used by default since version 23.10, from the open-spaced-repetition project. It keeps two numbers for each word: how stable your memory of it is, and how hard the word is for you. Each review is set for the day your chance of recalling the word drops to 90 percent, and never more than a year away. Your answer moves both numbers. Good stretches the gap, So-so keeps it short, and Not yet brings the word back in the same session.

Yes. Langvie asks for an account before it opens, so there is no version of it that forgets you. Your schedule is kept in your account rather than on the phone, so two devices can never disagree about when a word is due.

Mostly. The app opens without a connection, the library you have loaded is kept on the phone, and anything you answer offline is saved and sent when you are back. Two things still need a signal. A new phone, or one that has cleared its storage, needs it for the first load. Speaking practice always needs it, because the partner answers from a server.

Langvie is free to start, with no ads. The library, the word lists, your own cards and the first three chapters of every course level cost nothing, and so does each conversation up to its tenth answer. Premium opens the rest of the course, longer conversations, and your own videos and articles. It costs €6.99 a month, or €49.99 a year with a seven-day free trial. Nothing is sold, and subtitle files are read in memory and thrown away.