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#72 The Truth about Chinese subtitles

You Can Learn Chinese

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How to Use Video Without Subtitles

If you're not having to deal with a very foreign script, then it's easier to take in information from the sub titles o the captions. In languages like chinese, learners may have to rely on listening more because the written symbols are not well learned. And i think that's a good use case where you could first listen, you know, without sub titles, and then watch again just to make sure you understood everything correctly. Ye, ifind one id like to pull that back into an overarching principle of yor comprehensible input. You know, in we talk about extensive reading on thi show a lot,  a subset falls underneath the whole concept of comprehensible input

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