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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 here, it:
- needs to be freely, legally available online.
- has to include subtitles or otherwise be comprehensible for beginner and intermediate learners.
- 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 to it—through movies, TV series, short films, videos and podcasts.
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For a suggestion on how to use these resources more effectively at the beginner level, check out this video. Enjoy!
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 that we couldn’t leave it out
Albanian
- Kiem Holijanda (Short Film) — A young man in Kosovo, obsessed with the card of a porn star which 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 of her deafness