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by eredengrin
504 days ago
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Does consuming content include watching movies/shows in the language? For me, I can state with high certainty that simply watching a lot of movies or shows in the language I was learning did absolutely nothing to help my vocabulary compared to using anki. If by consuming content you meant taking a specific movie/episode and breaking it down, studying it relentlessly, and moving on to the next after you've seen it 20 times and practically have it memorized, then maybe that would've helped? It would've meant I learned a different set of things than I studied though, which is not too useful come exam time (quite possibly more useful in real life though). |
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Yes. Assuming the content is around your level - contains words you do not know, but not too much. Obviously, if you know every single word in the movie, you wont learn new ones. And if you understand nothing of it, you wont learn either.
> If by consuming content you meant taking a specific movie/episode and breaking it down, studying it relentlessly, and moving on to the next after you've seen it 20 times and practically have it memorized, then maybe that would've helped?
That sounds like self torture rather then anything else. Why would anyone do that? What would be the point of watching the same thing till you memorize that thing?
The value of consuming content comes from seeing many different sentences in many different contexts. So you build more connections in your brain and you eventually learn to combine own sentences. Movies specifically have value of showing something more similar to "normal speech" in speed so that your brain wont have time to translate.
Memorizing segments goes against everything it is supposed to provide.
> I can state with high certainty that simply watching a lot of movies or shows in the language I was learning did absolutely nothing to help my vocabulary compared to using anki.
For me, each time I tried anki, it seems to work short term. And it completely fails to teach me new words. Flashcards seem to be the least effective way to actual learn words that are truly new. I keep forgetting words I have learned from anki much much faster then words I learned from elsewhere.