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I feel shy to ask twice: <i>“Sorry, what’s that?” </i>When a person tells me something and I just didn’t get it. Either because of communication <i>noise, </i>or because I‘m missing a word meaning. I have made myself more aware of the whole words to build a single meaning so I can wisely answer to my interlocutor.</p><h1 id="562b">STOKED WORDS</h1><p id="3726">Have you heard of babies’ brains being compared to a sponge? This is because they absorb everything around them when they are learning. I’m not a baby anymore but I guess the brain has always worked the same.</p><p id="8f20">There are some words that just stuck in my mind and I can’t get rid of them. And suddenly I have a random question for my boyfriend:</p><p id="678a"><i>“Do you know what is ____?”</i> And he will answer: <i>“I don't know either. Where did you listen to it?”</i> And I will just say, <i>“I don’t know I just have the word in my mind.”</i></p><p id="a993">Probably you have had this annoying issue of not getting rid of a catchy song, and it is always there playing. Well, it is the same for me with some words. Somehow I’m unconsciously forced by myself to <i>google </i>the meaning so I can rest in peace and be happy to have learned a new word or expression.</p><h1 id="c263">READING</h1><p id="2312">A bit ago I thought that I wasn’t reading that much in English, but I realized I was wrong. It doesn’t matter if what I read is not a media meant to be read but to be seen. I’m reading subtitles and it should also be considered as an English practice. Every time I’m improving my reading speed, even that sometimes I can do it almost as naturally as I do it in my first language.</p><p id="74c9">I remember when I was learning to read for the very first tim

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e, in Spanish of course, and it was tough for me to read the advertisements from the window when passing in the car. Little by little I improved and now I make it in a natural way, now I’m not even conscious that I’m reading. It happens to all of us when we are starting to learn how to read, either a native language or a second one.</p><h1 id="5f61">REVIEWS</h1><p id="0249">Well, English has become a universal language and it is more common to find more quantity and more accurate media material of almost any subject. Of course, movies are not an exception.</p><p id="20ea">When I watch a movie I have really liked I enjoy watching videos on Youtube of people giving their point of view or their interpretation about some symbolism, or some curious facts. I have found way more relevant content in English, this has nothing to do with nationalities or geographical localization. It is common that when people want to go viral or to reach more people, if possible, they will create their content in English.</p><p id="0e4e">I was advised to watch movies in English with English subtitles to improve my English skills. Even though I followed this for so long, now because of my boyfriend I have been taken out of the comfort zone I didn’t know I was in and helped myself to keep improving my English skills in so many different ways.</p><p id="2c4d">Please do let me know if you have considered some of these ways to keep studying English. Or how watching movies has helped you learning English or some other language. If you are learning Spanish, you can take a look at my Spanish content here: <a href="http://www.helloimglad.com">www.helloimglad.com</a>. Here I mainly write about travelling, cultural differences and society.</p></article></body>

3 + 1 Ways Non-Spoken English Movies Helps Me To Improve My English Skills

My boyfriend has a passion for the films, he is a real movie buff, and he has made out of this passion a lifestyle, really. Joshua is interested in watching movie in the original language, either if it is Japanese, Punjabi, Hindi, Persian. He says that watching movies in the original language gives it a real feeling; even if he doesn’t understand the spoken language.

Of course, we are not fluent in all of those languages, don’t even know a single word. — Although Joshua has been learning Japanese for a long time now—

I must point out that none of us are native English speakers but we have a decent level, I think.

This is how watching international and non-spoken English movies have helped me so far to improve my English skills.

SUBTITLES

Most of the times the English subtitles are the only ones available. When reading the subtitles in English, my brain has learned to fill the blanks with known information. There are always unknown words for me but somehow it doesn’t affect my whole understanding because I know the rest of the words. Like this, I can have a general idea of what is going on, and also the context gives me a big clue.

Honestly, I feel shy to ask twice: “Sorry, what’s that?” When a person tells me something and I just didn’t get it. Either because of communication noise, or because I‘m missing a word meaning. I have made myself more aware of the whole words to build a single meaning so I can wisely answer to my interlocutor.

STOKED WORDS

Have you heard of babies’ brains being compared to a sponge? This is because they absorb everything around them when they are learning. I’m not a baby anymore but I guess the brain has always worked the same.

There are some words that just stuck in my mind and I can’t get rid of them. And suddenly I have a random question for my boyfriend:

“Do you know what is ____?” And he will answer: “I don't know either. Where did you listen to it?” And I will just say, “I don’t know I just have the word in my mind.”

Probably you have had this annoying issue of not getting rid of a catchy song, and it is always there playing. Well, it is the same for me with some words. Somehow I’m unconsciously forced by myself to google the meaning so I can rest in peace and be happy to have learned a new word or expression.

READING

A bit ago I thought that I wasn’t reading that much in English, but I realized I was wrong. It doesn’t matter if what I read is not a media meant to be read but to be seen. I’m reading subtitles and it should also be considered as an English practice. Every time I’m improving my reading speed, even that sometimes I can do it almost as naturally as I do it in my first language.

I remember when I was learning to read for the very first time, in Spanish of course, and it was tough for me to read the advertisements from the window when passing in the car. Little by little I improved and now I make it in a natural way, now I’m not even conscious that I’m reading. It happens to all of us when we are starting to learn how to read, either a native language or a second one.

REVIEWS

Well, English has become a universal language and it is more common to find more quantity and more accurate media material of almost any subject. Of course, movies are not an exception.

When I watch a movie I have really liked I enjoy watching videos on Youtube of people giving their point of view or their interpretation about some symbolism, or some curious facts. I have found way more relevant content in English, this has nothing to do with nationalities or geographical localization. It is common that when people want to go viral or to reach more people, if possible, they will create their content in English.

I was advised to watch movies in English with English subtitles to improve my English skills. Even though I followed this for so long, now because of my boyfriend I have been taken out of the comfort zone I didn’t know I was in and helped myself to keep improving my English skills in so many different ways.

Please do let me know if you have considered some of these ways to keep studying English. Or how watching movies has helped you learning English or some other language. If you are learning Spanish, you can take a look at my Spanish content here: www.helloimglad.com. Here I mainly write about travelling, cultural differences and society.