iltoen Newbie Germany Joined 5879 days ago 21 posts - 22 votes Speaks: Turkish*
| Message 129 of 134 05 November 2009 at 12:29am | IP Logged |
actually i can say that i learned a lot of things from telly. particularly british tv series but it is not enough to achieve something. it only helps a little
Edited by iltoen on 05 November 2009 at 12:29am
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danova Newbie Joined 5463 days ago 12 posts - 15 votes
| Message 130 of 134 14 December 2009 at 2:09pm | IP Logged |
You need a base. TV without a basic understanding of how the language works isn't very helpful. I credit my breakthrough in Spanish to my decision to watch telenovelas every day, but that was after many years of motivation-draining (but grammatically valuable) Spanish classes.
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JanKG Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5758 days ago 245 posts - 280 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Italian, Finnish
| Message 131 of 134 14 December 2009 at 2:54pm | IP Logged |
To me that is the point: you need a firm base indeed. I just thought of this: instead of buying tv, watch some things at youtube (etc.): you can freeze the image, replay time and again, listen again, etc. That also allows you to watch the kind of topics you are most interested in !
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eleonora Diglot Newbie Belgium Joined 4851 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: Flemish*, English
| Message 132 of 134 05 August 2011 at 3:15pm | IP Logged |
i didn't really learned English by watching tv but when i had lessons i noticed that whatching English tv
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misslanguages Diglot Senior Member France fluent-language.blog Joined 4837 days ago 190 posts - 217 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German
| Message 133 of 134 21 August 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
Once you're past the beginner stage, you should watch a lot of TV. That's what I do to study English, and so far it seems to have worked.
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 134 of 134 22 August 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
Watching TV in your foreign languages helps additionally to get a better listening fluency in the foreign language adapted to the native language of people speaking on TV. But you have to study the languages anyway, because you need to learn the grammar, write and speak the language as well.
Fasulye
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