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How to Get Dual Arabic & English Subtitles on Netflix with This Chrome Extension
Boost your Arabic studies on Netflix! This article introduces LLN, a Chrome extension enabling dual subtitles (Arabic and English) on desktop, with a popup dictionary and vocabulary highlighting.
Learning Arabic can be challenging, especially with limited access to subtitled content.
The Language Learning with Netflix (LLN) Chrome extension offers a powerful solution, allowing you to watch Netflix movies and series with dual subtitles in Arabic and English simultaneously, directly on your desktop or laptop. (Thanks to reader faruq for telling me!)
Netflix and subtitles
Netflix is adding more and more original Arabic films to its program. However, Netflix has two major disadvantages:
- You can’t set Arabic subtitles for movies that are originally in English or German, etc.
- You can only see one subtitle at a time. Especially for learning a language it is useful to see the original language and a translation. This way you hear, see, and translate the words of the movie.
The Chrome extension Language Learning with Netflix (LLN)
There is a Google Chrome extension that solves at least one of the two issues and makes it possible to see subtitles in English and Arabic at the same time. It is called LLN: Language Learning with Netflix.
LLN is a Chrome extension that supercharges Netflix – but it only works on your desktop or laptop (not on mobiles phones, tablets, or sticks).
How the extension LLN works
First, you should choose a suitable movie. You can search for Netflix stuff on LLN’s website:
Once you found a good movie, you can play with the settings.
The extension offers many useful options:
- a vocabulary-highlighting feature grays out less common words (adjustable to your level);
- popup dictionary (just hover over a word);
- automatically pause playback at the end of every subtitle (optional).
credit: https://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/
How to get and install LLN
The extension works with Google Chrome (on Windows, Mac, or Linux machines). You can download it from the Google Chrome:
Is it free?
Yes, it is free.
However, there is a subscription model (4.95 USD per month) which will give you more options. You will also support the developers and help to ensure that the plugin will be updated and upgraded in future.
Who is behind LLN?
David Wilkinson and Ognjen Apic, two independent developers.
David Wilkinson was born in Zimbabwe to English parents. He is a trained mechanical engineer who later started a business selling bilingual books. When he started to learn Indonesian and Farsi, he couldn’t find the right material and started to create his own material, he told in an interview with the Guardian: “I spent a lot of the time studying languages on my own but I made mistakes and I wasted a lot of time with methods which werenโt effective.”
Ognjen Apic is from Belgrade in Serbia. He is a Serbian linguist and professional developer who, years ago, developed a tool called Lingo Player.
When David saw Lingo Player on GitHub, he was curious about the person who made it and contacted the author, Ognjen. David went to Belgrade and spent a couple of months there.
Eventually, they created LLC.
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Driรner, G. (2020, May 12). How to Get Dual Arabic & English Subtitles on Netflix with This Chrome Extension. Arabic for Nerds. https://arabic-for-nerds.com/arabic-movies/dual-subtitles-netflix/
Published: May 12, 2020
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Thanks for the shout out, there are more titles than LLN link suggests though
Using the link below, just select arabic in the drop down at the top of the screen
https://www.netflix.com/browse/audio/ar
Faruq