How Learn English watching films? My friends says if I watching films in English I will improve my English learning! Is There a technics for this?

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alexandre acácio

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Yes, you can learn English primarily by watching movies. I am learning Spanish by watching telenovelas as my number one means of learning vocabulary and learning to comprehend the language. I do not see why learning English should be any different. If anything, it should be more convenient as there are so many English films available.

Depending on your level of comprehension, it is helpful to find some movies that are available with subtitles in your target language and possibly also subtitles in your native language. If you can understand it with only subtitles in your target language, English, that is much better. However, if you can´t understand too much of the English subtitles, you can first watch it with subtitles in your native language so you understand the movie, and then re-watch it with subtitles.

Here is an article and a video on a method I use on some of the shows I watch, which has enabled me to surprise many people with how large my receptive vocabulary is. Just change ¨Spanish¨ to ¨English¨ in your mind as you read it and the same technique will work for you. http://howlearnspanish.com/2013/03/anki/

I do not use the above method with all my movies or telenovelas. I allow myself to just enjoy watching shows more often than I actually use this method. Now I often do not use subtitles because I can understand without them. However, I notice more grammar when I use subtitles in my target language. The method using Anki is a great vocabulary builder, but I want to enjoy myself without feeling like I am studying a lot and I want to also have plenty of time when I am just actively watching and not stopping and taking notes.

I thought it was an urban legend but last summer I met one person who learn english without any source except movie and music. When I hear it, I was very surprised and I asked a lot of questions to understand the way she has learned. She only said "Everyone asks me same questions but I don't know, just it works for me". Eventually I knew her more an more and I can conclude these things that I do not but she does.

First she is movie geek. This is obviously distinguishable. She watched more movies than I watched. She memorized a lot of actors', actress', directors' name.

Second, in my opinion the keys are repetition and feeling. Essentially she tried to imitate some scenes in movies. Do you remember shrek scene in "I am legend"? ( here is link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vRURA8IBAo ). She is not like that as emotionless, she can act exactly like shrek and give all emotions in the scene. She did this for long time. For example she told that when she was in high school she memorized these scenes in Back to the Future.

1.21 gigawatts scene - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-77xulkB_U

and this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psxktpxkc6o

Also she tried to sing a song she likes.

Now I believe that all people can learn by watching and repeating. If your english knowledge is so simple or you don't have time to watching movies then I would recommend you to play voscreen. I play this half an hour each days for three month after all I can understand almost all thing I hear in english. At last I enjoy listening to podcast.

(IF ANYBODY NOTICES MISTAKE, PLS WRITE ME. I WILL BE APPRECIATE)

thanks for answer!

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