Guides

Short, practical guides to learning a language from what you already watch and read.

• How to learn a language from TV series without pausing every five seconds

  A practical way to learn from series in the original: which words to look up, why the meaning in the scene matters, and how to keep the words you find.

• Why translators get idioms in subtitles wrong, and how to read them

  Word-by-word translation turns idioms into nonsense. Five real subtitle lines, what they really mean, and how to recognise an idiom when you meet one.

• How to translate words in YouTube and Netflix subtitles on a computer and a phone

  Step by step: see what a word in a subtitle means in that exact line, in Chrome, on an Android phone and in VLC on Windows, and keep it for later.

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