Bonjour! Now, one of the most important aspects of learning a language is comprehension. You need to be able to understand what someone is saying before you can be able to even answer back. You may think that you are not able to watch an entire movie in another language, or maybe you believe that you'll never find any music you like in that language, but I'm here to tell you that you will. When I was at a lower French level, I had the chance to talk to a family from France. I asked them what the best thing I could do was to improve my French without being able to be immersed in the French language. Their advice was to watch movies! After that, I found one movie that I really liked, and I watched it every week in French. That was maybe a bit extreme, but every week I found that I could understand more and more of the movie! A good way to watch movies as a beginner is to start with subtitles (preferably in your new language), but you should take them away as soon as possible, to really try to comprehend. I have found that if you're struggling, it's good to pick a movie that you know very well already, so I love to watch Disney movies in French. It may seem a waste of time to watch a movie in a language you don't know yet, but not only will it improve your comprehension, your pronunciation will also improve from listening to native speakers. Now, you know what you should do, so go watch a movie!
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September 2020
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