mr.moderino

[oblique lion]

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[mossy zenith]

i'd say french audio english subs so you get used to hearing it

[frail tendon]

and can understand at the same time i agree

[mental wedge]

studies show that if you watch something with subtitles in your native language, your listening skills will not improve

obviously your listening skills will not improve if you have the audio in english haha

[leaden mountain]

thank you good to know

@mental wedge Is French Audio and French subtitles or is French Audio and English sub titles better

[leaden mountain]

oops i didnt see this, great to know. i will be doing french audio and french subtitles. it will be very confusing at first but hopefully i can eventually get a few words. I understand the et and the tu's and the super tiny basic words (well a few of them)

[leaden mountain]

Hello I found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyrbflheAwM&ab_channel=DangerousVHS . Can I trust the French subtitles?

[left stirrup]

sadly no, they're auto-generated and have a lot of mistakes

[leaden mountain]

Oof! Where should I watch classic kid shows with proper French sub titles then?

I was on Disney Plus Bluey but those folk that overcharge us already somehow don't have French subtitles for Bluey! 😡

[left stirrup]

a lot of french media doesn't come with subtitles. different cultural norms I guess.

try looking for CC subtitles (closed captioning). they match the audio exactly. Disney Plus has a lot of those

oh yeah the language your app is set to can affect what options show up. which is stupid

[leaden mountain]

Wait so if no French subtitles how do I improve French by watching French audio with no sub titles

[left stirrup]

I said a lot of them, not all of them. here's a playlist of subtitled cartoons:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRN6QJdPPfc1dQtbTGti8FPiOzGw3bD5j&si=dj-XIc4yh3srmhsd

over time you'll improve your comprehension and you won't need subtitles as much

[mental wedge]

netflix has subtitles

[leaden mountain]

I found Netflix subtitles and was just about to comment this! Thanks

[left stirrup]

hope they're good, have fun

[leaden mountain]

Thank you I saved playlist

Tieguy and fquel, when I watch the French audio with french subtitles do I just soak it in like I would be if I was a kid living in Paris or do I have to pause every single frame, go to google translate copy and paste and then go back

[mental wedge]

don't use google translate

use a dictionary like wordreference.com

it's really like a personal thing, you'll figure out when to pause

but at first you're not going to understand anything, so if you pause every frame, you'll never watch anything lol

[leaden mountain]

So do I just watch episode after episode in French fully immersing myself or is it mandatory/highly recommended that I pause every frame, go to the dictionary and paste every word

[left stirrup]

there's a concept called "tolerate the ambiguity". if you pause every second to search up a word you'll quickly get bored.
https://refold.la/roadmap/stage-0/b/tolerate-ambiguity/

though you can write down words you don't know and search up their meaning when you're done watching

[leaden mountain]

yeah that makes sense

[leaden mountain]

that makes alot of sense, i was thinking it would be time consumign

[mental wedge]

unless you already know a romance language, you're probably not going to have the stamina to learn french exclusively through netflix, it's a supplement to your learning, an important supplement

[leaden mountain]

nope, i only know english, i was genuinely shocked to discover genders in languages and conjugated verbs for the first time recentlky

actually watching netflix is my main learning right now of learning french. i dont really have a learning plan, just of just doing a couple lessons of busuu here and there

im watching this show called miraculas tale of ladybug, obviously i woudnt watch it in english but i have to watch something simple. next is the magic school bus

[mossy zenith]

oh there's so many cool features in languages

cooler than gender

like inclusive/exclusive we

or the two turkish past tenses

[subtle flicker]

I think languagereactor is an insanely underrated tool. You're able to watch shows with subtitles and right-click on a word to mark it as "learn later". You're then able to go through a list of the words you've marked, search up their definition, and mark them as "learnt"