Showing posts with label Others. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Others. Show all posts
In my opinion, it is quite helpful. The best way to learn to speak and understand a language, of course, is to hear native speakers speak it. If the option of going abroad is not available to you, then watching TV in that language is the next best thing, imho. Subtitles are useful if you're a beginner, but intermediate and advanced speakers should wean themselves off of it. If you must use subtitles, at least use the target language's subtitles. I personally find it quite disorienting because the subtitles are often different from what's actually being said (since people can hear faster than they can read). I don't think that watching TV alone will make you fluent in that language (and even so, it would take a lot of time and a lot of TV), but it certainly helps you hear how the language is actually applied in real life. It helps a lot with one's oral comprehension, and is a great way to learn the country's slang and colloquialisms; stuff you often don't find in the textbooks and learning packages.
Movies are already part of ones journey, as a matter of fact; there are some who believes that movies are just screen versions of their own lives. Like music, some movies depicts the true emotions of the creators; it could sometimes be a remake of real life events or about a persons wildest dreams. There are even some horror filme which are too realistic that some people feel as if its already telling the story of their lives.
