Re:Show HN: Learn English with movies and TV Shows
by gmu3 on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @02:00PM
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In Once You're Lucky. Twice You're Good by Sarah Lacy, she humorously recounts Max Levchin learning English from TV:
He’d worked so hard to be perfect—what could he possibly have done wrong? It wasn’t a feeling he was used to.
“Where did you learn English?” the teacher asked.
Max responded: “Watchu talkin’ ‘bout, Mr. Harris?”
Mr. Harris kindly suggested he switch from Different Strokes reruns to the nightly news. Embarrassed but undeterred, Max did, and his near-flawless English steadily improved.
He’d worked so hard to be perfect—what could he possibly have done wrong? It wasn’t a feeling he was used to.
“Where did you learn English?” the teacher asked.
Max responded: “Watchu talkin’ ‘bout, Mr. Harris?”
Mr. Harris kindly suggested he switch from Different Strokes reruns to the nightly news. Embarrassed but undeterred, Max did, and his near-flawless English steadily improved.