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| GrandeBretagne Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5238 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: Spanish, German | Message 1 of 9 14 July 2010 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey there.
Does anyone else find it a great help when you listen to target language and have it's own subtitles on hand? I've never heard other language students talk about this before, and none of my teachers have ever used it as a method, but I think it's very useful to get a better feel for the language and to develop listening skills. The France24 has a great news site in French with French subtitles. It's free, and obviously because it's a news channel, has an endless source of new material. Is there anything similar in German? And do you have any opinions on this method in the long-term? Danke. Edited by GrandeBretagne on 14 July 2010 at 7:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| feanarosurion Senior Member Canada Joined 5272 days ago 217 posts - 316 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish, Norwegian | Message 2 of 9 14 July 2010 at 7:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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Having subtitles can be a major benefit depending on the source and your level of listening comprehension. The basic principle is that it helps to space out the words you're hearing so that you begin to get used to following the language. A news site with transcripts would be great, especially because the speakers speak quite clearly which is definitely a help on its own, and transcripts are an added bonus. Unfortunately I don't know of anything similar in German, but the opinions on this method in the long term are generally pretty good I think. They actually form the basis of the Listening-Reading method, or at least one of the parts to that method, which you can find a lot of information here.
Hope this helps, good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| urubu Pentaglot Groupie Germany Joined 6597 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes Speaks: German*, Dutch, Portuguese, Indonesian, English | Message 3 of 9 14 July 2010 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, Euronews (de.euronews.net). The articles on the page are mostly identical with the spoken texts. The channel broadcasts in 7 other languages besides German, so there's lots of fun to be had with all the material available on the site. News broadcasts tend to be somewhat artificial in their subject matter and use of language, I think. But as it probably won't be your only source of listening material it won't matter all that much. Edited by urubu on 14 July 2010 at 9:39pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GrandeBretagne Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5238 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: Spanish, German | Message 4 of 9 14 July 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you both very much. Useful links.
The euronews site is just what I'm after! Edited by GrandeBretagne on 14 July 2010 at 9:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Javi Senior Member Spain Joined 5972 days ago 419 posts - 548 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 5 of 9 15 July 2010 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||
I think it's very useful to work with material that has both sound and transcripts or subtitles, especially when you're a beginner, but that's just in your study time. I would spend much more time being exposed to the language in the most natural and enjoyable way for me, and not consider that to be work. In my case, that happens without subtitles. I came to understand English listening to the radio, so I suppose I can say that they are not really necessary to cross that threshold. IMO, the sooner you start working on the 4 skills independently, the better. You pick a novel from the shell, or turn on the radio and it doesn't feel like work, but it you depend on especially prepared material, it's not that easy to make a habit out of it. I suppose you could consider subtitles as a way to get from material designed for learners to content meant for natives. I can't see the need for that bridge, but on the other hand, a lot of people grew up watching movies with subtitles, so they may prefer to use them to learn languages and still enjoy the experience. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5169 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 6 of 9 04 October 2010 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have read this method being scientifically proven to be good.
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| slhdn Diglot Newbie Turkey Joined 5722 days ago 20 posts - 33 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: French, Arabic (classical) | Message 7 of 9 05 October 2010 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is a very useful method which I have been using for improving my comprehension of spoken English. But I can't find subtitles for movies in languages other than English, unfortunately.
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| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5849 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 8 of 9 05 October 2010 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Have you tried http://opensubtitles.org? Most movies or shows on that site have subtitles in English as well as a host of other languages. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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