On the website: a general preview
Every visitor sees the same title-specific words and phrases, definitions, available translations, and Slovnyx difficulty ordering. The site does not know your level or learning history.
Screen Words methodology
How a title becomes a vocabulary preview.
Screen Words is designed to answer a practical question: which English words might be worth checking before this specific movie or episode? This page explains what the public list can—and cannot—tell you.
Two deliberately different lists
In the app: your personal collection
Slovnyx can compare the source with your current level, language background, known words, saved vocabulary, and quiz history. Strong actions such as marking a word known matter more than a simple skip.
What the current preview uses
- A movie or episode is connected to a title-specific English lexicon.
- Eligible words and short phrases are matched with definitions and available learner-language translations.
- Entries are ordered using Slovnyx difficulty data, with less common vocabulary appearing earlier.
- A page is published only when title metadata and a useful minimum vocabulary preview are available.
What the preview does not use
- Your account, level, known words, or quiz history.
- A claim that every displayed word is new for you.
- Full scripts, subtitle excerpts, scene order, or plot summaries.
- Ratings, testimonials, or learning-outcome claims presented as evidence.
Limitations and quality controls
Automated language data can contain proper names, inflected forms, non-English fragments, mature terms, or entries that are technically present but not useful to most learners. A vocabulary preview is therefore a preparation aid, not a transcript and not a complete learning plan.
New media pages and translations are staged behind minimum coverage, relevance, translation-completeness, safety, duplication, metadata, and internal-link checks. Weak pages should remain unpublished or non-indexable until they pass. Slovnyx does not add episodes merely to increase URL count.
See the public catalog in the Screen Words finder. If an entry looks wrong, email admin@slovnyx.com with the page and word so it can be reviewed.
Why prepare vocabulary before watching?
Research on captioned video generally supports captions as a useful scaffold for second-language listening and vocabulary, while results vary with proficiency, task, material, and study design. Research on preteaching also suggests that preparing vocabulary can support comprehension. Slovnyx turns those broad findings into a focused product workflow; it does not guarantee a learning outcome.