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I learned Spanish by watching one movie 50 times (youtu.be)

submitted 2 years ago by hatchet to c/[email protected]

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This seems like overkill to me, but Lamont is speaking very highly of this method. I personally rewatch movies extremely rarely, and the number of movies that I have seen more than once is very small, so the idea of watching one movie 50 times is rather nauseating.

I do, however, concur that re-consuming A/V media in an L2 is beneficial to me, as I noticed that I tend to struggle with correctly interpreting grammar the first time around.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Really cool idea. I am thr type that likes a confortable rut, and I need more listening practice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hunh, this seems like an adaptation of the L-R technique listed here https://sopuli.xyz/post/659485, but for a single film. Pretty interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Refold (who Lamont is a partner of) focuses quite heavily on L-R for the beginning stages. I agree it's quite interesting to see!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I think I might give it a go for a movie 10x. I have about 1600 hours until fairly okay fluency aparently so 10-20 hours wouldn't be too much out of that time. I may have to mix in other content while I do that though haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I feel like 3-5 times would be best as you get to rematch and understand new parts without it becoming mind-numbing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm a big fan of comic operas/operettas, and repeat listening to particular shows has honestly helped my German quite a lot. It's a pretty good way to train your neural network for grammar. And the music makes it a lot more fun to listen to the same things repeatedly!

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