The more easy and basic the better. I am not having fun trying to watch shows that were in English dubbed in spanish

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    9 months ago

    This, but ones where they speak clearly and slowly.

    I can read Spanish fine, but I never understand when people speak to me. I’ve tries watching movies but I never get anything out of it because I can’t understand what they’re saying…even if I know the words.

    Anyone have a recommendation for something to watch where the voice actors are super good at speaking very clearly?

    • ReadFanon [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      Spanish phonology is wonderful but it has the tendency to kinda blur, especially when it’s spoken quickly.

      My advice kinda sucks with regards to fun but I’d recommend watching children’s shows until your verbal fluency reaches a point where you can comprehend about 40-50% of the words spoken in movies or TV shows aimed at adults, then watch that with the Spanish-language subtitles on in order to continue developing your fluency.

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      I mentioned it above but dreamingspanish.com is so good for this. Start at your level, watch about 100 hours, then try the next level up. It takes time but it’s noticable when you start getting bored of the slow levels and then jump up to videos you couldn’t understand previously. I’m at their advanced level now and trying to jump to native tv shows. I think I still need some time with dreaming, but I can definitely understand more tv/radio than I could 6 months ago.

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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    theres a silly sitcom style learning show called extra that i watched when i was learning. also watched pocoyo and other kids shows.

    for more adult stuff… i watched los espookys recently. Idk usually ill just scroll the spanish language stuff

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      Agree with Extra en español. They’re all on YouTube.

      I have also watched a lot of 31 Minutos on YouTube, it’s kind of like Muppets meet The Daily Show? It’s aimed at kids but it’s entertaining and there is a lot of repetition so it works even if I don’t catch everything they say.

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        9 months ago

        I rewatched an episode of it last year after a little over half a decade of studying Spanish and man it’s funny how slow and overly articulate they’re speaking, I get why, but I never even noticed when I was learning lmao

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      9 months ago

      Los Espookys is so good, recommend that in general.

  • PointAndClique [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    9 months ago

    Do you watch animated shows? I find the dubbing much better/less obvious/jarring than watching a live action dub. I really enjoyed re-watching adventure time in Spanish, it felt really natural.

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    9 months ago

    REC is one of my all-time favorite horror movies, if you haven’t already seen it. From what I remember the second one is pretty good too, but 3 and 4 are worse.

    Los cronocrimines is a good time travel movie.

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    I wouldn’t say it’s basic but they made a shot-for-shot remake of Breaking Bad in Colombia called Metástasis that you might be able to find on the high seas

    it isn’t very good but you won’t have any trouble following what’s going on if you’ve seen the original

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    IDK how basic it is, but The Platform is a great movie. IIRC it has a lot of slow exposition and it’s mostly dialogue so it’s good for learning.

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    I am not having fun trying to watch shows that were in English dubbed in spanish

    I would recommend watching them with the Spanish subtitles, and then later turning the show into an audio file and then listening to them passively while you do other things (e.g. driving, cleaning, walking, etc.). That way you already know what they are gonna say so you can just practice listening. Like it or not you gotta build the listening comprehension for reasonably fast Spanish.

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    If you’re ok with video blog stuff, I love dreamingspanish.com. lots of different regions/accents and a ton of content. I started with the intermediate level, 20-part history of Spain and enjoyed it so much that I started subscribing. But there is a ton of free content too. I’ve been listening pretty consistently for the past year and can definitely tell that I’ve improved.

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    9 months ago

    when i was a kid i really liked Vecinos 2005 its a comedy, a more modern mex comedy series is Club de Curvos which is on netflix.

    for movies i really like Estrada’s movies which are La Ley de Herodes, El Infierno , La dictadora perfecta, they are also a bit comedic and talk about the diferent era’s Mexico has passed PRI era, PAN and then the new PRI. Amores Perros is good and also Iñárritu’s first movie also its a drama and serious also Roma is good too and its from Cuaron, Also Guillermo del Toro has made some mexican/spanish movies like Cronos and el Laberinto del Fauno