My Fluent Podcast

129 Movie Club - Learning English With Movies ft. Cara Leopold [PART 1]

Aug 26, 2023

Cara Leopold, creator of Leo Listening Movie Club, helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together to master conversational English. They discuss the importance of unscripted dialogue, limitations of scripted speeches, advancements in podcast transcription, reasons to learn English through movies, challenges and successes of actors speaking with accents, and upcoming movie club challenge.

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Cara Leopold

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Quick takeaways

Kara's movie club not only helps learners improve listening skills, but also provides a community for discussing and analyzing movies to enhance English proficiency.

Kara advocates for a contextual approach to learning through movies, tailoring the process to students' needs and interests, and emphasizes the importance of high-quality input and output in language learning.

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Kara's Journey as a Listening Teacher and Learning English with Movies

In the first part of the podcast episode, the host, Daniel, introduces Kara and discusses her journey as a listening teacher. Kara shares her background, including teaching online and becoming interested in teaching listening skills. She explains how she combined teaching listening skills with movies and started a movie club for English learners. Kara emphasizes that her approach goes beyond just improving listening skills, as it also focuses on creating a community where learners can discuss and analyze movies to improve their English.

Becoming a Good Listener in French: Insights from a Linguistics Graduate

02:14

Misconceptions about Using Movies to Learn a Language

01:44

Introduction

3min

The Evolution of Interviewing

14min

Understanding the Different Types of Speech for English Learning

4min

Evolution of Podcast Transcription and Subtitles

2min

Why People Want to Learn English through Movies

21min

Actors Speaking with Accents

3min

Accents, Leo Listening Program, and Movie Club Challenge

4min

Cara Leopold is the creator of the Leo Listening Movie Club where she helps film-loving English learners understand and discuss movies together so they can master conversational English.

From September 13th-20th Cara is organising the Back-to-School Movie Challenge, a 1-week taste of what it's like to be in a movie club. By watching and discussing school-themed movies together, you’ll learn new vocabulary, catch fast-spoken English and practice your speaking and writing skills with other movie-loving English learners. The challenge includes access to a discussion forum as well as a live Zoom session at the end to chat with me and other film lovers about the movie clips.

Cara's challenge:

https://leolistening.podia.com/back-to-school-movie-challenge

Cara’s website: https://leo-listening.com/

Cara’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LeoListening/

Cara’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caraleopold/

Cara’s Pinterest profile: Coming soon.

Spotify Playlist (Cara Leopold Interviews)

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Time stamps

0:00:02 Introduction and passion for interviewing

0:06:48 Learning French through Observation and Listening

0:08:54 Lack of focus on listening skills in education