I watched a #German movie named Die Welle (The Wave) (with English subtitles) today.
I don't think it helped me in improving my German.
How do you watch a movie in a language you want to learn?
About the movie, it was fine (I hardly get impressed by movies; I have high standards).
On another hand, all the English websites or subreddits only suggest movies on World War II, Hitler, or fascism when I search for German movies.
I like to watch something else too. Any recommendations?
If you want to improve your language, don't focus on the subtitles, focus on the audio, and use the subtitles only when you're not sure of the audio.
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Das Leben der Anderen is also really good.
I can also recommend watching "Die Sendung mit der Maus". It's a kids show, but it's really good insofar as how they show how products are made in a way that is even relevant for adults.
@ravi honestly, movies are only helpful after at least a B1 level in a capacity that actually helps.
Deutsche Welle has movies for learners called Nicolas Weg which might be helpful because they contain simple sentences and words.
@wouter Does that work for beginners? Am I supposed to watch the same movie multiple times? What about watching again with German subtitles?
@ravi I really liked "Tour de Force" (original title: Hin und weg)
https://imdb.com/title/tt3273636/
I'm about to re-watch Good Bye Lenin! Last time I watched it, around 2 decades ago, I couldn't speak a word of German.
In terms of series or miniseries:
Dark, The Valley (Weinberg), Pagan Peak (der Pass).
It's kinda difficult to learn a language by watching stuff, but maybe try Lingopie or Language Reactor if that's your goal.
@carbsrule_en Thanks for the recommendations! I will check out.
By the way, I am not trying to learn German solely by watching movies. I am having proper daily four-hour classes at the Goethe Institute.
Watching a movie was recommended by someone (not my teacher) as a supplement to the classes. They said they were able to learn some Malayalam by watching movies in that language with English subs.
Damn! I need to move to an instance without character limits for toots.
@ravi they showed us Lessons of a Dream at Geothe- Institut, which was nice. Maybe this will help you as per your current progress -
https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/m/spr/unt/kum/dfj/dkk.html
No, probably not. I only started to do that once I was able to follow basic conversions in the target language.
If you're too much of a beginner, I don't think using subtitles is the best way of learning a language, also because subtitles are not always 100% accurate
@niyabits That makes sense. Thanks for the recommendations! I will check out.
@wouter I did it upon recommendation by a person who was able to learn some Malayalam by watching movies with subtitles in English (or Hindi?). They weren't learning Malayalam otherwise.
I think Malayalam is a difficult language to learn for Hindi speakers.
My logic behind watching a movie was to supplement my German classes and to get used to the sounds. However, it seems like I would have to wait on that.
It does work; I vastly improved my English using that method (amongst others).
But in my experience, it only works if you understand enough of the language that you can get the basic structure of what is being said. Otherwise you can't focus on the written and spoken languages at the same time.
I agree with @joostvb 's recommendation to watch subtitled children's videos. Those usually have sentence structures that are simpler and therefore easier to understand.
@niyabits I believe you were referring to this one https://learngerman.dw.com/en/nicos-weg/c-36519789