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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 417 of 766 13 June 2014 at 3:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yeah it depends on many factors. Scandinavians eat subtitles for breakfast, for example. Ignoring/skimming/not focusing too much on the subtitles is a skill, and one that's not necessarily worth acquiring if you don't already have it. The same applies to watching dubbed movies without being distracted by the mouth movements not matching the sounds.
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4888 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 418 of 766 14 June 2014 at 8:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm about to start my first episode of Un Village! It's really nice to have a link;
I've been looking for one for awhile and never found a good site, with or without subtitles. But ... be careful when you download the extensions to play it (flv player and divX). It came bundled with all kinds of little gremlins. I thought I had caught most of them, but one evil one slipped in and managed to place ads in HTLAL - such as random hyperlinks to a fake Pimsleur page. It wasn't hard to remove, but it was a bit of a shock. To say the least - I thought we had been sold to Pimsleur. (edit: and the first episode was incredible. There was a fair amount of slang, and multiple plot lines, so I'm glad for the subtitles!) Edited by kanewai on 14 June 2014 at 9:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5475 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 419 of 766 14 June 2014 at 8:43am | IP Logged | |||||
A fair question... At this stage I prefer to have subtitles as my comprehension level is too low (certified B1). This is my preference despite others finding it better to have no subtitles for whatever reason. I think I would switch off Engrenages without subtitles- it's simply too difficult. There's been a handfull of people stating that despite doing previous SC's with French that while their reading comprehension level of French had clearly improved, they still found they struggled to understand French 'watching'. Perhaps this has something to do with French stress (more uniform tone, less frequent stress than say Spanish which has stress on a particular syllable in every word). Perhaps if I was at the same level in Spanish having no subtitles wouldn't be as much of an issue. The other reason is that when I often watch such shows it's outside my 'desk study' time and often in the evening when relaxing with my wife. She wouldn't watch foreign cinema without subtitles. Fortunately she enjoys European cinema so if there's something Euro worth a look she's happy to (with st's) do so. Otherwise I'd simply be watching English only programs. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 420 of 766 24 June 2014 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I finally got the silver badge, but my Firefox freezes when I hover it. It then says that the script http://www.languagechallenge.surrealix.com/script/raphael-mi n.js:10 is slow or doesn't respond, and when I stop the script it says I've studied one book and one film, not two. I've noticed the same on other people's pages - no freezing, but still 1 instead of 2.
edit: this happens only on user pages. On the main page there's no problem, I think. Edited by Serpent on 24 June 2014 at 10:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4603 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 421 of 766 25 June 2014 at 12:33am | IP Logged | |||||
Does anybody else have this problem? I looked at your user page in the latest Firefox, and it worked fine. Chrome and Opera also work fine. It does take ~5 seconds to load the page because there's a bit of data it has to parse before it displays the graphs, you just have to be a bit patient. EDIT : I guess my first suggestion is to make sure your version of Firefox is the latest one, and then see if this still happens. Edited by surrealix on 25 June 2014 at 12:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 422 of 766 25 June 2014 at 2:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have the latest version, yes. This specifically happens when i check the Italian silver badge info, which is displayed incorrectly too. In fact even the golden badges say the person has studied one book&film. I'm yet to find anyone whose badge info is correct, other than those with bronze badges. (seems to be fine on the main page though)
Hm it freezes for a much shorter time if I don't have a football stream on :D Edited by Serpent on 25 June 2014 at 2:54am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 423 of 766 25 June 2014 at 8:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I had no problem hovering over Serpent's badge. I'm on Firefox 30.0.
As to the other problem, the badge on the user page only indicates activity, "recently studied at least one..." It's not a fault, it was never programmed to do otherwise. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 424 of 766 25 June 2014 at 1:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've not seen the same error on anyone else's page, but on a couple pages the cursor got stuck in the question mark shape the first time I checked. Edited by Serpent on 25 June 2014 at 1:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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