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  • So I think, compare to people around me,

  • I do one thing differently, that really helps me with my language skills

  • and that is, I purposely look for movies / TV series in a different language

  • or in a language that I'm learning

  • to me the fact that a movie or TV series is in another language besides English

  • it's a plus point for me, because

  • if someone were to reccomend me a series in English,

  • it has to be really good, umm

  • otherwise, I'll be just like... meh, just another English series

  • so umm, that's really the one thing that I do

  • and how does that help me with my language skills?

  • so if you're learning a language, let's say learning French

  • and you do not live in French-speaking country

  • it's just going to be hard to get immersed

  • unless you know a lot of French people,

  • or you pay to be in a community of French speakers, whatever

  • so in that case, immersion is quite difficult

  • movies and TV however,

  • they're the next best thing to get immersed

  • so I recently got addicted to this TV series called "dix pour cent" in French

  • and that,- I think I started watching it mid-August

  • and I got so addicted to it I finished it within a week, and,-

  • or two? two weeks

  • and now I'm rewatching the series again but with French subtitles

  • so first I,- so it's a French series

  • I first watched it in English subtitles, just to know the story

  • and then now I'm watching it in French subtitles

  • and eversince I start watching this series or binge watching this series

  • my French skills has really improved a lot

  • without me taking any classes or anything

  • I really improved my listening, my reading, my pronunciation, and my speaking skills

  • but writing not so much, because I think when it comes to writing, my French is awful

  • but especially my pronunciation and my listening skills has gotten so much better

  • how so?

  • well, the listening part,

  • I improved it, because obviously, I watch the dialogues,

  • and then I'm just,- I just get so used to how French people speak

  • not just the language, but also how they,-

  • how they combined or how they swallowed the words together

  • umm, because especially French when it comes to pronounciation or accent, is just a lot..

  • worse, and a lot harder to understand than English

  • so I'm not only used to listening to the French language

  • so not just the words, but also what comes in between it

  • so like the fillers, like the, euuhh uh huu

  • or also like the gestures, their facial expression

  • what are the informal ways French people speak

  • and I think that is very important

  • and I wouldn't have really learned much about this

  • if I were to learn French in a class room

  • so I think, movie and series it really is a lot better, for me to learn this way

  • to my reading skills, also improved,

  • because then I watch the series with subtitles

  • first I watch them with the English subtitles as I told you

  • and the second time, I watch it with the French

  • so watching it the second time with the French subtitles

  • that really allowed me to...

  • make connection between how a word is spoken, and how a word is written

  • and for languages like English and French where,- what you read and what you hear is completely different,

  • it's very important to make that connection between spoken and the written word

  • and if I were to watch the series on my laptop, because I normally watch it on my phone

  • I use double subtitles

  • and the double subtitles is also a lot better

  • it's not really good to watch with double subtitles to be honest, if you wanna get entertained

  • because then you're just gonna get focused on the subtitles

  • but to learn, double subtitles,

  • they're just amazing

  • and for the speaking and pronunciation

  • um this doesn't,- this isn't always a given

  • just because you're watching series in different langauge,

  • doesn't automatically mean that you're going to be able to speak

  • but for me it works because, when I watch it even for the first or the second time,

  • I always mimic the characters, the native speakers

  • and then I even try to redo the dialogue when I'm alone at home

  • let's say if I'm in the bathroom, or in the toilet, I find myself speaking to myself in French

  • and that really works with my pronunciation,

  • so what I do is that, when I watch it for the second time in French subtitles,

  • I pause it a lot, and then I try to really mimic their pronunciation

  • and then I try to experiment as much as possible, to,-

  • to make myself sound as French as possible, like these characters

  • so that way, without knowing,-

  • after doing it for two weeks straight

  • my pronunciation just got a lot better

  • and whenever I'm in doubt on how to pronounce certain words,

  • then I find tutorials of it on YouTube

  • "How to pronunce nasal sounds in French"

  • then that way I really improved it

  • it's not just watching series,

  • but also watching the series with the goal of learning

  • and also watching tutorials next to it

  • this is also a method that I use when I was learning English in middleschool

  • I was so addicted with the series "Gilmore girls"

  • and, I also pause the series a lot then,

  • I know that for a lot of people is kind of like

  • "yeah but if you pause it a lot, you can't enjoy it"

  • so that is why, before you watch a series, you wanna know,

  • am I watching this to learn? or a I watching this to get entertained?

  • when I watch a new episode for the very first time, I watch it to get entertained

  • because I'm just so immersed in the story

  • and the later time, I will watch the episode again,

  • because then by the time I already know how the story is,

  • and I can just focus on the use of the language

  • and how they structure their sentences, how the sentences go with each other

  • and even look into the grammar

  • it's like "why are they using this and not that?"

  • and then if I really don't know then I will look up to the grammar rules

  • I honestly think and I whole-heartedly believe

  • at least for me...

  • watching a TV series, or movies is just the best method to learn a language

  • and I think this is the secret sauce

  • as to how I get to learn different languages at a rapid phase

  • find a series that you love in the language that you're learning, and you'll be surprised

  • so I also have an online course that teaches you exactly this

  • if you guys wanna learn English

  • and um,- you guys can go check it out here, it's in Bahasa, and yes,-

  • so that is it for me today, I hope you guys like my video

  • and I will se you next week in other video, and

  • have a good day!

  • Babai~

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    nao 發佈於 2021 年 10 月 19 日
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