Can't understand without subtitles? Do this! - Intensive listening tutorial

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Hey language learners! We hear you -- kicking subtitles is hard! You get to a point where you know tons of words when reading, but when you hear them you can't understand them!
This is a common problem most language learners face, and a lot of people give up once they reach this point. The good news is, it's possible to bridge this gap between reading and listening with a little something we like to call "intensive listening."
Ready to kick your subtitle habit and level up your listening abilities once and for all? Tune in to learn how!
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@ranjidtobi5140 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video, now I got the difference between both intensive reading and listening

@Orange-ok8pi 3 ай бұрын

3:45 I agree with you. When I'm watching a show or video in English and I hear a sentence with 3 unknown words (plus slurring) I just move on. Besides, those words are usually very rare and I feel I don't need them to follow the plot.

@Komatik_ 3 ай бұрын

Can't understand without subtitles? More like can't understand subtitles. _cries in Japanese student_

@Refold 3 ай бұрын

Do this then! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b7GcqtB5vdm8mIU.html - Ben

@opolo704 3 ай бұрын

For me it's the opposite. Kanji carries my comprehension sometimes cuz even words I'm not super familiar with make sense thanks to the kanji clues. Then I start doing no-subtitle listening and suddenly I gotta rely on context a lot more and don't have clues on unknown words 😭 Funnily though it's kinda the opposite in the beginning where the listening with subtitles helps me learn kanji as I hear the word and see what kanji it's composed of.

@Komatik_ 3 ай бұрын

@@opolo704 Kanji definitely do have that kind of an effect. They disconnect what you hear from what you read, but do give a bit of extra info to what you read, so you can deduce what you just stumbled upon from a different aspect of stuff you've read than with phonetic writing. But the reading-listening disconnect is real. I'm the biggest kanji hater in the world, but they do have some benefits. The benefits sadly also come with inordinate costs and especially for Japanese just the most insane writing system in the world. But they definitely aren't ALL downside. Just mostly. (Someone take them behind the shed and pull the trigger, please)

@delectari4466 3 ай бұрын

Thanks Ben!

@TheWishDragon 3 ай бұрын

This is helpful, thank you!

@dianach-fl7fw 9 күн бұрын

You know, I feel like dilematic For example, when I'm listening and look to the subtitle,my concentration is divided, but if I only focused on listening i can't got the word that i didn't know

@ansonechevary1776 3 ай бұрын

Being able to do what you are doing in this demonstration what level would you consider a person is at in their language learning journey? I’ve been doing refold for 3 and a half years now studying Japanese. I can’t pin point my level of progress which would be great to know for myself and confidence. Thank you 🙏🏼

@Refold 3 ай бұрын

It's really hard to give a specific number or answer to these sorts of questions. But I'd say something along the lines of "50% of the way to functional fluency." But every person and case is very different. If you can do what I did, that means you're making great progress in the language and should be able to easily continue immersing and making progress. I hope that helps a little! Sorry it's not a perfect answer. - Ben

@ansonechevary1776 3 ай бұрын

That’s actually helpful information coming from someone who is teaching the method. Thanks!

@bait6571 3 ай бұрын

Hey, is there something like the simple roadmap on the refold website but put into video format?

@Refold 3 ай бұрын

Not currently, but something like that will (hopefully) be coming out this year!

@pohlpiano 3 ай бұрын

Saying "Kdybys byl dobrej herec, tak bych ti to možná i věřila." In the VocabSieve window showing "Nejsi dobrý herec, nevěřím ti." Subtitle VS audio discrepancy?

@Refold 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, this happens with most languages pretty often. Subs are usually done to fit better on screen, be faster to read or to be more natural. It's impossible to make subtitles that match up 100% with audio (since people talk at the same time, they use tone of voice, talk in accents, maybe cut to voice over, etc). But it's not usually a problem for language learning. It's annoying sometimes when you hear a word you want to look up, but it's not in the subtitles, but it's not the end of the world.

@SoarseX 3 ай бұрын

If you understand well with subs on, isn't it better to just do more listening? Dictionary should assist only reading component immersion.

@Refold 3 ай бұрын

This activity is what helps you convert that reading to listening ability. It's very, very common for learners to NOT be able to hear words that they actually know. This is how you can solve that problem. Plus, when you hear a new word, it's actually very rare that that word is able to be inferred through immersion. Especially when it's the critical word in a sentence. So looking up words in a dictionary is what you should do in that case. - Ben