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For a link to be included:

1. It needs to be freely and legally available online.
2. It has to include subtitles or otherwise be comprehensible for beginner and intermediate learners (CI/ALG). ****3. It should be a quality production (no AI slop, misinformation, propaganda, unethical portrayal, etc.).

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<aside> 🍿 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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Advice

Watch, enjoy, and profit. Alternatively, if you like taking notes, this video offers a suggestion on using these resources more effectively at the beginner level. This technique is especially useful if resources in your target language are scarce.

Try to choose content that is comprehensible at your level without requiring subtitles. For more advanced content, if you have the option between English and native subtitles, native subtitles are better (see this study). Only use English subtitles as a last resort and consciously make sure that you are paying attention to what is being said and not just reading the English subtitles.

Multiple Languages

Podcasts

• Coffee Break Languages — One of the longest-running language learning podcast series in multiple languages

YouTube Channels

• [Insert language here] Fairy Tales — 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.
• Kids’ Shows — Many well-known kids’ TV shows have YouTube channels in different languages, especially major languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Polish, Serbian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Finnish, Turkish, Greek, Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Hindi. You can often find them by scrolling down to the “Featured Channels” section on the English YouTube Channel for the show. Major networks like Nickelodeon also have a YouTube channel for each language. Examples of TV shows with their own channels in different languages: Curious George, Code Lyoko, The Garfield Show, and The Fairly OddParents.

Albanian

Short Films

• Kiem Holijanda — 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.