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👇 This is a curated list of video material to immerse yourself in the foreign language you are learning.
For a link to be included:
- It needs to be freely and legally available online.
- It has to include subtitles or otherwise be comprehensible for beginner and intermediate learners.
- It should be a quality production (no misinformation, propaganda, unethical portrayal, etc.).
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🍿 One of the most fun and effective ways to learn a foreign language is through mindful exposure—through movies, TV series, short films, videos, and podcasts.
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Watch, enjoy, and profit. Alternatively, this video offers a suggestion on using these resources more effectively at the beginner level.
Multiple Languages
- [Insert language here] Fairy Tales (YouTube Channels) — There is a large group of YouTube channels with fairy tales in different languages with English subtitles. The example provided in the link is “Korean Fairy Tales”. Search YouTube for your target language.
- Coffee Break Languages (Podcast) — One of the longest-running language learning podcast series in multiple languages
- Language Transfer (Podcast) — This is a collection of language courses rather than content for exposure. But it’s too good to leave out.
Albanian
- Kiem Holijanda (Short Film) — A young man in Kosovo, obsessed with a porn star’s card that he found, doesn’t notice that his brother had chosen that day to say goodbye to him.
American Sign Language
- CODA (Short Film) — A young dancer, born to deaf parents, tries to find her place in the world.
- This is Normal (Short Film) — A young woman undergoes an experimental procedure that is supposed to cure her deafness.