A2 English Listening Practice - Using Subtitles — Transcript

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1. 0:00Let's talk about using subtitles when
2. 0:02you're learning English. So, you can
3. 0:06probably already notice that this video
4. 0:09has subtitles. This isn't something that
5. 0:13I have been doing recently. I've been
6. 0:16making videos without subtitles, but I'm
7. 0:20going to start creating videos with
8. 0:24subtitles um that are AI generated. So,
9. 0:29I pay to have this tool that can do this
10. 0:32for me. So, it might not be 100% correct
11. 0:38all the time, but uh I'm hoping it will
12. 0:41be like 97 98% correct, 99% perhaps. So,
13. 0:49uh I uh hope that you like this. I'm
14. 0:52going to talk about why I'm doing this
15. 0:55and I want to talk about using subtitles
16. 0:59in general. Okay. So, first of all, why
17. 1:03am I doing this? Why am I starting to
18. 1:06make videos with subtitles again? Well,
19. 1:11first of all, many people ask for
20. 1:13subtitles and yes, there is the YouTube
21. 1:17generated the automatic uh subtitles uh
22. 1:22from YouTube. Um but for some reason, a
23. 1:25lot of people just don't like this or
24. 1:28they don't want to click on the little
25. 1:30button uh and choose the language and
26. 1:33all of that. So, uh, a lot of people,
27. 1:37uh, don't like that or they just don't
28. 1:40trust YouTube autogenerated subtitles.
29. 1:44Um, honestly, they're pretty good. So,
30. 1:48uh, you can try them out on other videos
31. 1:51that don't have subtitles and, uh, you
32. 1:54can see for yourself. I find that
33. 1:56they're pretty good. Uh, but many people
34. 2:00prefer to have the subtitles on the
35. 2:03screen and so uh that's why I'm doing
36. 2:08this. Uh, you know, people have
37. 2:11expressed that they really like the long
38. 2:15videos that I've done for the past I
39. 2:19don't know how long it's been, but I've
40. 2:21been doing them for a while. Um, and
41. 2:24these are the videos that uh people get
42. 2:28more excited about because they can see
43. 2:31my face. Uh, people like seeing me for
44. 2:35some reason and uh they get more views
45. 2:39when I first publish them. But really,
46. 2:43the videos that I've made that have
47. 2:47helped the most people, it seems, are my
48. 2:52videos with subtitles dedicated to
49. 2:56different levels, like A1, A2, B1. Those
50. 3:01listening videos, they still get tons
51. 3:05and tons of views. Not all of them, but
52. 3:09uh the older ones still generate uh many
53. 3:13views over the months and years. Uh some
54. 3:18of them have in the millions actually,
55. 3:22not many of them, but a few of them. So,
56. 3:25uh those seem to be the videos that
57. 3:29really uh help the most people. Uh even
58. 3:34though some people they don't need the
59. 3:38subtitles
60. 3:40uh they don't want uh the subtitles uh
61. 3:44the thing is if you don't want the
62. 3:47subtitles you can simply ignore them. Uh
63. 3:51that's uh something that's possible even
64. 3:54though you think that uh having them on
65. 3:58the screen distracts you. Maybe that
66. 4:02might be true for some of you. Uh, but I
67. 4:06can't please everyone. There will always
68. 4:09be some people that aren't completely
69. 4:13satisfied with the choices I make in
70. 4:17terms of how I make my videos. Um, but I
71. 4:21figured that I should start using these
72. 4:25subtitles so that uh all the people that
73. 4:29need subtitles can have them. And
74. 4:33hopefully the people that don't want
75. 4:35them can simply cover them up, put
76. 4:39something there to cover them, uh, or
77. 4:42just not look at them. Uh, that's
78. 4:45probably the easiest thing uh, to do.
79. 4:48And uh I've watched videos where I put
80. 4:51the subtitles on, but I don't look at
81. 4:54them unless I need them, unless I don't
82. 4:58understand something. It's possible,
83. 5:01folks. So, uh hopefully this will be the
84. 5:05best solution for uh my videos in the
85. 5:10future to reach more people, help more
86. 5:13people, and uh hopefully you guys still
87. 5:18uh enjoy these types of videos. I think
88. 5:21I'm going to make them a little shorter.
89. 5:24Uh possibly 15 minutes or so. And I
90. 5:29don't know what I'll talk about yet. Uh
91. 5:32maybe uh mostly language learning stuff,
92. 5:35possibly some other things. Um but
93. 5:39regardless of the topic, the goal is
94. 5:42still to provide interesting content for
95. 5:45you to practice your listening. And I'm
96. 5:49showing my face so you can see me.
97. 5:52People really like this format. So, uh,
98. 5:56I'm going to continue to do it like
99. 5:59this. I think I could change obviously,
100. 6:02but uh, I'll probably, uh, make videos
101. 6:06like this one. And let me know if you
102. 6:10like this type of uh subtitling where it
103. 6:15kind of shows you which word I'm saying
104. 6:18in the moment. Um I think most people
105. 6:21like that.
106. 6:23it kind of helps them uh follow along
107. 6:26better. But um I'm sure uh with the tool
108. 6:30I'm using, there might be options uh
109. 6:33where it doesn't do that where it just
110. 6:36shows the words and it doesn't show you
111. 6:39where I am in the phrase or whatever.
112. 6:42So, let me know. Uh leave a comment down
113. 6:45below and tell me what you think about
114. 6:48these subtitles. And I'm sure some of
115. 6:51you will comment and say you don't like
116. 6:54having subtitles on the video. I'm
117. 6:57sorry. Again, I can't please everyone.
118. 7:00Um, I would just say that you can try to
119. 7:04cover them or not look at them. I've
120. 7:06done this plenty of times. It's
121. 7:08possible. So, uh, how should you use
122. 7:12subtitles when learning English?
123. 7:16Well, uh, let me talk in general, not
124. 7:18just about my content, but in general.
125. 7:22Uh, first of all, a great way to do this
126. 7:25is to repeat the video multiple times.
127. 7:30Um, the way that I've, uh, talked about
128. 7:33the most, I think, is watching the video
129. 7:37the first time without the subtitles to
130. 7:41see how much you can understand. And
131. 7:44then you watch the second time with the
132. 7:46subtitles so you can see uh which words
133. 7:50you didn't get. Uh and then the third
134. 7:52time without subtitles to try to
135. 7:56understand everything this time without
136. 7:59reading them. So, uh you can do it that
137. 8:02way or perhaps you just listen or watch
138. 8:06twice. Uh the first time with the
139. 8:09subtitles just to try to get everything
140. 8:13and then the second time without
141. 8:15subtitles to try to get everything
142. 8:18without seeing the words. So, uh you can
143. 8:22do this in a number of ways, but the
144. 8:25goal is to uh eventually understand the
145. 8:28video without the subtitles. Okay? So,
146. 8:33with a video like this one, uh you would
147. 8:37watch it maybe not looking at the
148. 8:40subtitles, just looking at my face, and
149. 8:44then the second time looking at the
150. 8:46subtitles, and the third time looking at
151. 8:48my face again. or cover the subtitles if
152. 8:52you prefer. Um, you can do it that way.
153. 8:56If there's a video that uh doesn't have
154. 9:00subtitles on YouTube, you can uh use the
155. 9:05YouTube autogenerated subtitles. They
156. 9:09work. Uh I I use them. Uh so uh you can
157. 9:13watch uh without the subtitles and then
158. 9:16activate those subtitles and then uh
159. 9:20turn them off again however you want.
160. 9:23But uh using repetition is a good way to
161. 9:27practice your listening and see what you
162. 9:30can understand, what was hard for you to
163. 9:34understand, and then eventually
164. 9:36understand everything without the
165. 9:39subtitles. So, uh that's uh one tip.
166. 9:43Another tip is uh that you can just look
167. 9:47at the subtitles when you can't
168. 9:50understand a word. I like this uh tip
169. 9:54here. like you can watch this video and
170. 9:57just look at my face and when I say
171. 10:01something that's not completely clear uh
172. 10:04to you or maybe there's a phrase or a
173. 10:07word I use that you're not familiar
174. 10:10with, then you look down and you see
175. 10:13what it is that I said. And that's a
176. 10:16great way to use them. And uh it's
177. 10:20pretty simple and it helps you train
178. 10:23without subtitles, but then use the
179. 10:26subtitles to help you uh get what you
180. 10:30couldn't understand or um see u the new
181. 10:35word that I used, etc. Right? That's a
182. 10:38great way to use them. Uh you can also
183. 10:41use subtitles for I guess I'll call it
184. 10:46targeted listening practice. So uh you
185. 10:50notice which patterns you can't
186. 10:53understand. Let me explain this. If you
187. 10:56can understand something when it's
188. 10:59written down, but you can't understand
189. 11:02it when you just hear it without seeing
190. 11:05it, that means that uh you know the word
191. 11:09or you know the phrase, but you can't
192. 11:12understand it. Well, it's not a new
193. 11:14phrase for you, but you can't understand
194. 11:18it. Um, this means that you have a good
195. 11:21opportunity to see what the difference
196. 11:25is between what you're expecting to hear
197. 11:29and how native speakers actually say the
198. 11:32phrase. Okay? So when you use subtitles,
199. 11:37uh for example, you can watch without
200. 11:40looking at the subtitles and then you
201. 11:44can't understand something and then you
202. 11:46look down and you say, "Huh, why
203. 11:48couldn't I understand that? I know that
204. 11:50phrase." Um, and then you repeat, you
205. 11:54rewind the video and you train with that
206. 12:00uh phrase. you uh listen multiple times
207. 12:03to see how a native speaker actually
208. 12:07says that phrase. So, you're targeting
209. 12:11the things that you can't understand and
210. 12:14then seeing why you couldn't understand
211. 12:17it, what you were expecting to hear, and
212. 12:20then you see how it really sounds. So
213. 12:25that can help you notice and better
214. 12:28understand different patterns in
215. 12:31English. So that's something uh that
216. 12:34could be useful for you. You can do the
217. 12:37same thing for pronunciation practice.
218. 12:40So, uh, when that happens, you can, uh,
219. 12:44like I said, rewind the video, um, watch
220. 12:47it again, listen, uh, multiple times to
221. 12:50hear how a native speaker says it, and
222. 12:53then you can replicate that with your
223. 12:56own, uh, you know, saying it yourself.
224. 12:59So, you practice your listening and your
225. 13:03pronunciation. In that way, you are uh
226. 13:07noticing how things really sound and
227. 13:10then you try to say it the way that
228. 13:13native speakers say it. So, this can be
229. 13:16good for listening and pronunciation.
230. 13:20And then lastly, you can use subtitles
231. 13:23when you're just watching content for
232. 13:26pleasure. Let's say it's the end of the
233. 13:29day. You want to watch uh something for
234. 13:32entertainment and instead of watching
235. 13:35the show in your own language or the
236. 13:38video in your own language, you watch it
237. 13:40in English. And uh this can be hard, but
238. 13:45if you put the subtitles on, you can uh
239. 13:49understand it much better probably. And
240. 13:52during this time, if you're just
241. 13:54watching something for pleasure after a
242. 13:58long day of work, then you probably just
243. 14:01want to watch it and not rewind it and
244. 14:05take all these notes and things like
245. 14:07that. You just watch the content, but
246. 14:10you have the subtitles on and um you're
247. 14:15practicing in that way. um you probably
248. 14:18won't understand everything, but the
249. 14:21subtitles will make it easier for you to
250. 14:24just enjoy uh that show, that video or
251. 14:29whatever. And so in that case, uh
252. 14:33there's nothing you should really do.
253. 14:35You should just relax and enjoy it. but
254. 14:38you're getting some English practice and
255. 14:41because of the subtitles, you might be
256. 14:44able to understand enough to just enjoy
257. 14:47the show or enjoy the video or whatever
258. 14:50it is. So, that's another thing that you
259. 14:53can do. All right, I hope that you liked
260. 14:57this format of video with the subtitles.
261. 15:00Um, leave a comment down below and let
262. 15:03me know if this style of subtitles uh is
263. 15:06good or whatever. I don't know exactly
264. 15:09uh what I'm going to be doing and
265. 15:13talking about. And I assume, like I
266. 15:16said, I'll just make videos that are
267. 15:18like this, a little shorter than I've
268. 15:21been making them recently, but with
269. 15:23subtitles. Um, and uh I don't know what
270. 15:27I'll title these videos. maybe
271. 15:29intermediate uh English listening
272. 15:31practice or I don't know. Um but we'll
273. 15:35see. I just wanted to make a video
274. 15:37talking about subtitles to introduce
275. 15:40this new era of videos that I hope to
276. 15:44make and to give you some tips. And of
277. 15:47course, as always, remember to check out
278. 15:49my advanced podcast episodes in which I
279. 15:52speak fast. And check out my US
280. 15:56Conversations podcast in which I talk to
281. 15:58different people from around the
282. 16:00country. It's a lot of fun and it's
283. 16:03great practice for you because you
284. 16:05practice with my authentic conversations
285. 16:08that I have with other native speakers.
286. 16:11So, both of those links are down below.
287. 16:14All right, thank you for watching this
288. 16:15video and I'll talk to you in the next