Foreign films when learning a foreign language

It's a great ideal. I am doing the same with French, since I am learning that.

I say, keep it up.
Barbara

Great idea. I speak Spanish but I still listen to Spanish movies to keep up with it. I'm born and raised in England, so I'm not up with all the Spanish slang, which is in a lot of movies.

Listening to songs/movies are good for learning languages :-)

Hey I speak french and it definitely helped me when I was learning. Listen to as much of that language as you can. Even if 95% of it goes over your head immersion is the best way to learn and if you can't go to that country films, radio etc are a big help.

Have a look and see if there is a Russian alliance in your town as well - they have meetings with people from that country and speakers/learners as well - Alliance Francais helped me immensely to just LISTEN and try and join in in real life x

I do. I also find it helps to watch something like the news or soap operas in that language. You generally have an idea what is going on by what's on screen so the words are reenforced in your mind.

It makes sense to listen to it to help you with learning it more. That is how we learn as babies. We don't know the English language the second we are born, but we are surrounded by it until we pick it up and the meaning of things and we start putting sentences together with what we have learned. It might take a while that way, but it does work

Yes this is an excellent idea. I began listening to Portuguese language music and watching Portuguese films as I prepared for my first trip to Brazil several years ago and it helped me a great deal with learning the language.

I recommend watching Disney movies or cartoons because they speak slow enough for you to try to absorb it. Foreign films are geat also though!

I'm not trying, but I'm starting to pick up some Korean from watching so many Kdramas.

Netflix has tons of foreign films. That's all I ever watch.

Do you find listening to foreign language films assist when learning the language? I'm learning Russian and a friend recommended listening to Russian films for pronunciation. Since I only know a few words, I'm wondering if this is premature. As a French speaker, I listen to French films while I am cleaning my house to try to keep the translations fresh in my mind, but since I have a good understanding of the language, I think it has merit.

Any ideas?

Definitely a good idea and if you have closed-captions (subtitles) and can put them on in Russian all the better too!

I'm a polyglot - Scots & English mother tongues, bilingual Dutch, fluent German & Swedish, understand most Western European languages too. I frequently listen to music, mostly Swedish pop (my favourite genre) but Dutch and German too. HUGE fan of the Eurovision Song Contest (which used to fuel and satiate my thirst for languages, but so many countries sing in English now :grumble: ) Also love watching European-language TV shows & movies (which we call "readies" because of the subtitles... and I sometimes put on the foreign subtitles when watching an English-language film (because ever so I'm slightly hearing impaired and don't like the TV volume up too loud, especially if I'm up early and doing the ironing).

I did Russian at high school and got A+ grades in my exams, but that was 25yrs ago now and I've forgotten more than I ever learnt although I still remember bits (Меня зовут Кайл. Я живу в большом доме на берегу моря в Шотландии. :laugh: - I had this whole penpal letter memorised off-pat for the exam and that was the introductory line.)

Удачи вам в ваших изучения русского языка :flowerforyou: