I do one thing differently, that really helps me with my language skills

and that is, I purposely look for movies / TV series in a different language

or in a language that I'm learning

to me the fact that a movie or TV series is in another language besides English

it's a plus point for me, because

if someone were to reccomend me a series in English,

it has to be really good, umm

otherwise, I'll be just like... meh, just another English series

so umm, that's really the one thing that I do

and how does that help me with my language skills?

so if you're learning a language, let's say learning French

and you do not live in French-speaking country

it's just going to be hard to get immersed

unless you know a lot of French people,

or you pay to be in a community of French speakers, whatever

so in that case, immersion is quite difficult

movies and TV however,

they're the next best thing to get immersed

so I recently got addicted to this TV series called "dix pour cent" in French

and that,- I think I started watching it mid-August

and I got so addicted to it I finished it within a week, and,-

or two? two weeks

and now I'm rewatching the series again but with French subtitles

so first I,- so it's a French series

I first watched it in English subtitles, just to know the story

and then now I'm watching it in French subtitles

and eversince I start watching this series or binge watching this series

my French skills has really improved a lot

without me taking any classes or anything

I really improved my listening, my reading, my pronunciation, and my speaking skills

but writing not so much, because I think when it comes to writing, my French is awful

but especially my pronunciation and my listening skills has gotten so much better

how so?

well, the listening part,

I improved it, because obviously, I watch the dialogues,

and then I'm just,- I just get so used to how French people speak

not just the language, but also how they,-

how they combined or how they swallowed the words together

umm, because especially French when it comes to pronounciation or accent, is just a lot..

worse, and a lot harder to understand than English

so I'm not only used to listening to the French language

so not just the words, but also what comes in between it

so like the fillers, like the, euuhh uh huu

or also like the gestures, their facial expression

what are the informal ways French people speak

and I think that is very important

and I wouldn't have really learned much about this

if I were to learn French in a class room

so I think, movie and series it really is a lot better, for me to learn this way

to my reading skills, also improved,

because then I watch the series with subtitles

first I watch them with the English subtitles as I told you

and the second time, I watch it with the French

so watching it the second time with the French subtitles

that really allowed me to...

make connection between how a word is spoken, and how a word is written

and for languages like English and French where,- what you read and what you hear is completely different,

it's very important to make that connection between spoken and the written word

and if I were to watch the series on my laptop, because I normally watch it on my phone

I use double subtitles

and the double subtitles is also a lot better

it's not really good to watch with double subtitles to be honest, if you wanna get entertained

because then you're just gonna get focused on the subtitles

but to learn, double subtitles,

they're just amazing

and for the speaking and pronunciation

um this doesn't,- this isn't always a given

just because you're watching series in different langauge,

doesn't automatically mean that you're going to be able to speak

but for me it works because, when I watch it even for the first or the second time,

I always mimic the characters, the native speakers

and then I even try to redo the dialogue when I'm alone at home

let's say if I'm in the bathroom, or in the toilet, I find myself speaking to myself in French

and that really works with my pronunciation,

so what I do is that, when I watch it for the second time in French subtitles,

I pause it a lot, and then I try to really mimic their pronunciation

and then I try to experiment as much as possible, to,-

to make myself sound as French as possible, like these characters

so that way, without knowing,-

after doing it for two weeks straight

my pronunciation just got a lot better

and whenever I'm in doubt on how to pronounce certain words,

then I find tutorials of it on YouTube

"How to pronunce nasal sounds in French"

then that way I really improved it

it's not just watching series,

but also watching the series with the goal of learning

and also watching tutorials next to it

this is also a method that I use when I was learning English in middleschool

I was so addicted with the series "Gilmore girls"

and, I also pause the series a lot then,

I know that for a lot of people is kind of like

"yeah but if you pause it a lot, you can't enjoy it"

so that is why, before you watch a series, you wanna know,

am I watching this to learn? or a I watching this to get entertained?

when I watch a new episode for the very first time, I watch it to get entertained

because I'm just so immersed in the story

and the later time, I will watch the episode again,

because then by the time I already know how the story is,

and I can just focus on the use of the language

and how they structure their sentences, how the sentences go with each other

and even look into the grammar

it's like "why are they using this and not that?"

and then if I really don't know then I will look up to the grammar rules

I honestly think and I whole-heartedly believe

at least for me...

watching a TV series, or movies is just the best method to learn a language

and I think this is the secret sauce

as to how I get to learn different languages at a rapid phase

find a series that you love in the language that you're learning, and you'll be surprised

so I also have an online course that teaches you exactly this

if you guys wanna learn English

and um,- you guys can go check it out here, it's in Bahasa, and yes,-

so that is it for me today, I hope you guys like my video

and I will se you next week in other video, and

have a good day!

Babai~