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Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by Omin on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:40PM (#24454072)
Far worse than the presentation is that they often don't even match. And it's not that they are leaving out words (which is already horrible for language learning), but the subtitles are phrased entirely different than the spoken words.

I've tried to improve my French via Netflix and it's useless. Netflix subtitles are often just the English subtitles independently translated. Even for original French content you are not guaranteed to get correct subtitles.

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Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by knubie on Saturday September 12, 2020 @02:43PM (#24454453)
This bothers me to no end. It makes the vast majority of content on Netflix nearly useless in terms of trying to pick up new words.
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Re:A Review of Language Learning Tactics by anonymous_too on Sunday September 13, 2020 @02:21AM (#24458822)
Spoken words are constrained to match mouth movements in a different language, the written forms don't have this restriction.

I doubt they were considering language learning when subtitling, unfortunately.

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