I prefer using the original audio, not dubs. It would be too many decisions to make otherwise. First, what to watch and, second, what language to watch it in.

Migaku!

I had never thought of creating a new profile in a different language. I'm going to try this now.

so should i just watch netflix in my target language even if my vocabulary in it is approximately 37 words? genuine question, how much do i need to understand for it to be actually effective?

Are you traveling in to Sweden this summer? We need an update!

Where did the hat come from!

I actually have Disney+ just for this reason. Watched movies and shows for about a year now and think I've only watched Hamilton in English. I can't watch something more than a couple times before getting bored, but hopefully I can find something to binge watch 50 times.

So that's why you have the access to Swedish Storytell. I thought it was weird I couldn't pick Swedish in the app. I might just try SharkVPN for that. I also tried Pokémon for Swedish as a total beginner and it was really difficult without subtitles, but hearing over again the intro song eventually led me to learning few phrases and words. I'd still say listening to even 1% comprehensive input is worth, especially if you analyse it too. though, Netflix subtitles do poor job of matching actual speech. You do however bring up a very good point about repeating stuff that's high quality. For me it was rewatchng Breaking Bad for learning German. It was wonderful. Also recently found out German podcast that reads Reddit stories which I am addicted to in English, and I already picked up a few half-known or new words from that! And for Swedish I learnt many words from listening to indie band Humörsvängnijngar which repeats phrases in songs constantly. An incredibly amazing indie music too! I've kind of forgotten about watching content in Swedish besides just listening to short stories. So your speech helped me now convince myself to go back into Swedish Pokémon or whatever else fitting my taste. Tack för din hjälp och har en bra tagen!

Does simply changing the language of your already existing Netflix account not work, since I tried doing so to get more movies in Dutch and the language selection hasn’t changed?

What Lamont tells us at about 16:00 is spot-on. Nations that dub FROM English have a lower fluency in English. Can confirm because I lived in Germany for 3 years. Germans are GENERALLY good but not astounding. The Nordic states, though? Amazing. I met some 11 and 12-year-olds in Denmark who were as competent as kids in my own family. When I asked, they said, “I don’t know. We watch a lot of American cartoons and movies.” Then they proceeded to run back to the playground while I gushed to their parents about how impressive their kids are.

What impresses me most is that there seems to be enough German content on Duolingo to entertain you for 3000 days?!? Even if it's just the endgame/level to keep your skills fresh, doesn't Evan have that anyway on a daily basis living in Germany? Imo this whole duolingo defending is just a giant sunken cost fallacy.

I am watching original Pokémon and jojo in French right now 😄

I watched The Empire Strikes Back around 100 times during the summer of 1980. (Pre-Internet, only 1 cable TV channel and $2 matinee.) I absolutely believe you watched "Into the Spider-Verse" 50 times.,

I completely agree!!! Cannot praise this approach enough!! I am a Russian native, English speaking and Italian studying American. I came to the US having some English. I used every minute available to improve my English, listening to radio talk shows all the time I was in my car driving to work and back. I insisted on my colleagues at work correcting my mistakes, wrote memos and asked them to proofread. I have always been into art and music. And now that I am retired, I travel a lot and mostly to Italy - Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan, Naples. I am studying Italian now. And I am using Pimsleur language learning approach, which is very similar to what you are talking about!

12:49 after watching my fair share of medical dramas, I know quite a few pieces of medical terminology in my TL that I hardly even know in English!

08:00 watching with the audio description track on is a tip I picked up from MattvsJapan and it's so underrated. In fact I think it's the best way for someone with a very high level of reading comprehension but a low level of aural comprehension, to get their raw listening ability up. Because you can usually have closed captions *and* audio description. So you won't miss any of the dialogue and the content will still be very enjoyable even at a high level, but you'll still get loads of practise audio because the description track isn't subtitled (since it's for blind people). Not only that but it's possibly the perfect comprehensible input for an adult learner, since it's literally describing the events that you're seeing unfold on the screen in a series/movie whose plot you're (hopefully) interested in. Lil personal thing: my Swedish friend tells me literally the only thing I can say with good pronunciation and accurate pitch accent is "En röd N förvandlas till ett spektrum av färger". And it's because, I quite like Swedish TV, and have watched at least five series on Netflix all with Swedish audio description, which starts each episode with a voice explaining the Netflix logo animation. Have probably heard that single sentence at least a hundred times if not more. Whereas reading anything else in Swedish, even if I'm trying really hard to get my pronunciation right, sounds incredibly British. And it's effortful, whereas when imitating the audio description track, I don't really have to think about it, it just feels like doing an impression of someone for a laugh. Really put into perspective for me how much listening is required for one to develop a good accent.

When my wife first moved to the States, she took some free classes that gave her a good foundation, but I credit Friends with teaching her English. Even today, nearly 20 years later, she's still gaining English from Friends. Teaching in China, I had a teenage girl ask for a good SciFi show, and I gave her Stargate SG-1. A few weeks later, she came to me and asked, "What does 'For crying out loud' mean?" It was a proud moment.

It's cool to have seen your growth over the years, man.

Over the past year or so Netflix has become my goto streaming platform for any language I learn thanks to a VPN (I personally use PureVPN and haven't had issues with netflix or Disney+). Example, for Japanese, I can watch superhero shows like The Flash in Japanese dub, but I also have a much bigger selection of shows from that same country that are not available in a different netflix region.....anime specifically....all anime I watch through Japan VPN has jsubs and the selection of anime in Netflix Japan rivals that of Crunchyroll (or it's much better) so I cancelled Crunchyroll and never looked back. Basically 90% of the shows I've seen have dub option in the specific region and if they don't they at least have subs

For some languages its not so easy I tried it with Korean

I suppose if I ever buy any (or otherwise have one that's free) I probably could when I get started.

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I have tried two languages in Duolingo one I sort of knew (3 years of French in school 20 years ago) and one I didn’t know (Japanese) and it had helped me get back into French and helping with vocabulary/refresher but Japanese I stopped in about a month as I definitely wasn’t learning it. I will slightly defend it as a way to get your footing in a language you know a little of. I have struggled with emersion as well. I have friends that swear by learning Japanese via anime and it just didn’t work for me. So for me I am using Duolingo (free version) to get my bearings again and starting to add the emersion and when I have funds will be getting a French tutor because I need that guided support.

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Why do I need a VPN with it? I tried creating an account, and it let me choose my country of residence.

As others have said, duolingo is great for teaching the basics, and it makes it quite fun, which is a plus. Turning the whole tree gold won't mean you've reached fluency, if anything it means you've memorized alot of words and can make some compound sentences. I've used duo to better my German, which I mostly learned from music, reading, watching movies or KZbin videos, and practicing on duolingo. They have short stories for some of the languages which are genuinely fun to listen to, at least for a learner. I've used it for Greek and now I'm learning Russian, again, building off of music I like but it hasnt made me "fluent" and I dont expect it to. Its good for practice for beginners and its free. My biggest complaint with duo is trying to teach people to read before they can speak. I'm also messing around on the app with Arabic and Hebrew but it's hard because you have to learn the script before you get to any of the basic words or sentences. This has also kept me away from playing with Hindi or Japanese on duo since they teach the script before you can make a four word sentence. All in all, for an app you don't pay out of pocket for, its good and fun. Couple it with other learning strategies and you can get far. I just wish they took a different approach to languages with a different script. I do also have to mention that my friend has over 25k xp in french and knows almost no french at all. I dont know how, but it just didnt work for him or he just cared about xp more than actually learning. Its how you use it that also counts.

We Swedes are good at hearing dialectal differences, a way to determine differences between us and them. Therefore, it is easy to determine whether you, as an English speaker, are from Sydney, Liverpool or Houston. And yes, we understand when someone says "dick" about "deck" on a boat, that they are from New Zealand...

I think duolingo is great for starting out with a language from scratch.Combined with an A level grammar book It helped me get some basic vocabulary and grammar to be able to then move onto comprehensive listening and more effective ways of learning. I think people who hate on duo don't know how to use it productively and for whom it's most useful. It's a tool that can be quite helpful at the right time, in the right amount.

I just want an audiobook+ebook “purchase one book at a time” app

No, you couldn't, a film alone would not suffice. Secondly, it wouldn't help you in reading the language. However, yes, it would certainly benefit you.

Duolingo causes unhealthy competition between users, which has nothing to do with language learning. The purpose of the application is to addict its users.

I didn't even know people pushed back against SRS

I feel special cause I had watched her before cause I was trying to learn Norsk for a bit. You are so right about the wall of discomfort. I always felt like I wouldn't be able to do it even though it was irrational just how far the journey felt was hard to overcome. About 2 months ago I got learn language with netflix and figured out it worked with KZbin and my progress has exploded in German. It should of been obvious online we meet so many people who learned English by just consuming a normal amount of English content like natives. I took German for 4 years in high school and never thought about doing this I just thought about flashcards mostly to learn words. I can't wait now till I've been doing this for 4-5 months I feel like I'm on the edge of the learning becoming so much easier. One thing I've thought about also now is gaming in your target language in a story game giving you real experiences in your target language also. The one I'm about to play is the Witcher 3 again but in German.

If you want to play computer games and waste your time for nothing use this app

Of course, fairy dust and unicorn dreams.

I think watch mr.beast video can be count. Cause mr.beast video has multiple language with voice over.😮 Please, can you add this topics to your channel. And maybe making a wholenlist of youtube channel with many language

What premium apps on android that can help me learn language. Just 1 apps with premium features.

I started learning Swedish as an experiment after watching an episode of Taskmaster where the contestants had to speak with a swedish person. I had some previous experience with German as well, so Swedish seemed like a nice middle ground between English and German. I figured, that after completing the Duolingo course I would hopefully be able to comprehend at least 30 to 50% of what's being said. I'd then move on to watching swedish TV series and standups, and I'd be golden. 400 days later the course is complete, I tune into SVT, listen to one program, another, third one, and it occurs to me that I understand NOTHING. Zero. Zilch. Not. A. Thing. Anticlimactic to say the least. So here's why Duolingo will not teach you Swedish: 1. The voice lines are computer-generated. You don't hear real people speaking. You don't learn to understand different voices (yes, men and women speak differently). You don't train your ear to understand different accents. 2. The sentences are largely unusable. Seems like Duolingo team is more concerned about the agenda than making sense. For real, the very first sentence I had to compose was "Mannen älskar mannen". 3. There are no explanations. No theory whatsoever. No grammar. No rules. There are just repetitive simple exercises making you feel that you're making progress. That is, as long as you stay in the Duolingo bubble.

bellows (plural bellows) A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.

I need some advice. I am moving to China in August 2025. From now till then. What sort of plan should i have in place to be able to work and communicate comfortably there? For reference i have passed a few mock exams of HSK 1 already and 2 recently, and I work in the hotel industry. I am moving there to be closer to my daughter. Many thanks. P.s i want to be an advance level haha

For me, Duolingo is perfect, I've been learning English there for 964 days and I'll never stop, thank you Duolingo 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

I'm learning Finnish right now 🙄

I was fine with it just being a sort of fun game to do for 5 mins a day. Not sure I learned much, but oh well. But then parts of it got hard or impossible to complete in 5 mins. I gave up. Started using MemRise just for vocab and surprisingly my reading comprehension improved a fair amount. I don't recall much improvement when using Duo.

So, does the way in which Antônio Bandeiras' Arab character in "13th Warrior" learned the language of the Vikings have a real basis?

It is incredible... That all the Stephen K fans keep saying that grammar is not useful and we just need to keep listening attentively to content in whatever language since day one. How the fuck am I supposed to know how to create output if I dont study any syntax? Is that magically going inside my head. I am not a toddler, I am an adult and I need to know the tools the languages has and how to use them to express myself. Please, stop saying that language learning is just about listenning to a podcast for 10 times in a row until you understand it. There is some space for debate on how to do it carefully, but all the time I open those videos... The content is always about how bad it is to get a book and study. The books can be a very significant shortcut before doing all of this inputing stuff. If you know the order of the words, guess what? Maybe you have a bigger chance of listening well in the begining...

Okay so i just need to watch a whole episode of a movie in chinese for the rest of my life and copy the sentences. amazing advice.