Re:Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
by fenomas on Sunday April 08, 2018 @11:07PM
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GP is saying to watch with subtitles in the language to be learned, not your native language.
IMO it's good advice. When I do it, I inevitably wind up looking for and finding differences between the audio and text, thinking about how I might have translated things differently, and so on.
Re:Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English?
by wallflower on Sunday April 08, 2018 @10:22PM
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Yes, I believe some polyglots recommend that you never watch a movie with a disconnect between subtitles and the audio track.
English audio/English subtitles is fine. Assuming you are French, English audio/French subtitles is bad. French audio/English subtitles is also bad but not as bad as the previous combination.
The reason is that if you have subtitles in your native language, you will tend to just focus your brain on reading them and kind of ignore the audio portion.
Something I've heard over and over is that using subtitles actually stunts your growth, because it's too easy to fall back on instead of making sense of what you hear.