Tonight's film can be a lesson.
Connect your library, press play, point at a word.
Sign in with email - it's freeLalea turns the films and series on your own server into a vocabulary course. Tap any word to see what it means in this scene, save it and review it later - every word remembers where you met it.
Three steps. The first one takes about a minute, once.
Sign in with email and add your Plex, Jellyfin or Emby server. No files to upload, nothing to install.
Lalea prepares the lines in your language - with AI translation when it is missing - and keeps them in time with the speech.
Its meaning in this very line, a picture, examples. Give it a level and it lands in your vocabulary - with the line, the film and the moment.
Built by someone who watches every film in the original and wanted his own library to teach him.
Every word keeps the line, the film and the timestamp. One click takes you back to the moment you met it.
Spaced review built from your own films, a daily goal and a streak that burns at midnight.
115 languages in any pair. Original and translation, two originals, or swap them around.
Lalea uses the tracks on your server and translates them with AI when your language is missing. With Pro, even a film with no text at all can be learned from.
In the player right in your browser - or, with Plex, on the TV with your phone as a second screen.
Export your words to Anki in one click. Delete your account from the account page.
Good tools exist. We did not find one that brings your own films, word cards and review together without setup.
| Browser extensions for streaming sites | Language streaming apps | Tools you install on your server | Lalea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your own films and series | - | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nothing to install | ✓ | ✓ | - | ✓ |
| Word card, scene and review together | partly | partly | - | ✓ |
| Keeps working when a streaming site updates | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Learning from your films is free. Pro removes the limits for people who watch a lot - and pays for the AI work behind every film.
No. Video plays from your own server. We keep your sign-in, your words and the subtitles prepared for you. To translate, subtitle text goes to an AI provider; for speech recognition (Pro) the soundtrack is processed on our servers. You can delete your account from the account page.
Plex, Jellyfin and Emby. Without a server you can open a video file from your computer right in the browser.
Lalea translates the ones it has with AI. If there are no subtitles at all, Pro recognises the speech and makes them.
115, in any pair - learn French through Spanish or Korean through English. The site itself speaks all of them too.
With Plex, yes: play the film in a Plex app on the TV and open Lalea on your phone - the current line and its translation follow the movie.
Yes. Export your words to Anki at any time, with their translations.
No. Lalea does not host, stream or share films, and it does not offer subtitles for download. It works with the media on your own server and the files you add, which you confirm you have the right to use. Right holders can reach us through the copyright page.
Connect your library, press play, point at a word.
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