A day with Learnarr
Learnarr fits around what you watch anyway. A typical day:
Before you watch (10 minutes). Open Today and study the cards that are due. Then open the next episode of what you're watching. If it's new, press Get subtitle, look at "% you know", and go through the suggested words: keep the ones you want to learn, mark the ones you already know. Those become new cards for tomorrow's study, and "% you know" goes up as you mark words.
While you watch. Watch with subtitles in the language you're learning, or none if the episode is easy enough (above 95%, see "% you know"). The words you studied will come up; that's the point. If you set up notifications, pressing play on Plex or Jellyfin sends a reminder to go through that episode's words first.
After you watch. If a line stuck with you, open the episode's Transcript, tap the word you didn't know and make a card from it.
That's the whole loop. Learnarr limits new cards to 20 a day, so the reviews never pile up faster than you can do them, and on a day you skip, the cards simply wait.
Choosing what to watch
"% you know" is shown on every episode you've started, on the show page and on Today. For language learning, the sweet spot is between about 90% and 98%:
- Below 85%, most lines have a word you don't know. Better for studying than for watching.
- 85–95% is a stretch: you follow, with effort, and learn a lot.
- 95–98% is just right: you follow, and the new words stand out.
- Above 98%, it's easy going. Good for relaxing, less to learn.
Children's series, sitcoms and soaps tend to score higher than crime dramas and science fiction, because they use everyday language and repeat it.