A film with English subtitles is basically an English storybook with some foreign language background noise. It’s useless for our needs. Sure, you might hear a couple hours of French or Spanish, but you aren’t actually listening to the dialogues; you’re just reading the story. If the subtitles are in your target language, then you’re still just reading a story, although this story is significantly more useful. This can be a wonderful source of input; it’s not much different than reading a book with an audiobook. But it won’t help you with that damned mumbly teenager. You need to put yourself
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