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Do you think watching a lot of movies is good to improve your language?

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Question added by Duaa Saif , Translator & Copywriter , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2015/12/20
Mohammed Borham
by Mohammed Borham , Senior Procurement Engineer , Saudi Bin Laden Group

Watching movies is a great way for improving language specially when they are not subtitled. Also youtube is a great source for watching small & very useful videos (in any preferable type of interests) to improve language.

Rasha Maarabouni
by Rasha Maarabouni , Executive Registrar , Lebanese International University

Watching movies is a great way for you to improve your English, especially your listening and speaking skills. Films are not usually created for English language learners – they are made for native English speakers. Therefore, the language is exactly how you hear it in real life – it is spoken quickly, with native accents and pronunciation and using many idioms and colloquial expressions.

 

It is not a good idea to use this as your only method of learning English; it is much more advisable to study at an English school. However, I would definitely recommend all English language students to watch films in English in their spare time for additional practice that you might not get in a classroom.

Rania Hafez
by Rania Hafez , Office Manager , KFIC

sure it improve how we speak correctly with good pronunciation 

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Yes, watching movies can help improve language.

Note watching a lot of movies with a particular goal in mind can help achieve that goal.

 

Muhammad Arslan Bukhari
by Muhammad Arslan Bukhari , Assistant Manager HR , CompuCom Technologies

It surely helps, you can also try NEWS channels. You will get information and routine words 

Kamran Ahmad
by Kamran Ahmad , HR/ADMIN ASSISTANT , COMMODORE CONTRACTING LLC

well yes if its with subtitle its more good but the thing which i ll say is to practice it to speak and to involve in it practically .....  and socially....

Magomed Tazhdinov
by Magomed Tazhdinov , Teacher of Arabic as a Foreign Language , Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta

I ccan say truly yes of course, because I have an experience

Rashid Altaf
by Rashid Altaf , Logistics Manager , Bilfinger

Its similar like a;

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”

 

In my opinion yes, it’s absolutely right watching movies is a source of learning language. (Now selection of movies with will to learn is your's).

 

Brain, is an apparatus with which we think, we think. (Ambrose Bierce)

 

Until & unless you will not give some input to your mind or engage with something how can you learn.

 

Teodor Pop
by Teodor Pop , BIM Manager , ISG jv

Definitely, this is how I expanded my own vocabulary: watching movies (without any voice over) and listening to songs in a foreign language.

Loujain Kurdi
by Loujain Kurdi , Account Executive , Traccs

Absolutely. It's what I did to improve my arabic, my spanish. So from personal experience, I can tell you it pays. You memorize the words, you can match the sound with the correct letters, and you discover the 'tempo/speed' of the language.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

I think it would help, no doubt. But better than movies it would be better to have some chat´s in some forums or some daily talks with foreign friends )

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