#210: How to Understand TV series & Movies without Subtitles

What is keeping you from watching a movie or TV show in English without subtitles? In this episode, Ethan, Andrea and Justin discuss 3 key things that are going to help you to finally break free from subtitles!

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Topics:

• Challenges in watching TV without subtitles
• Vocabulary
• Connected Speech
• Cultural Context
• Wordplay

Words You’ll Learn:

• Braille
• Crutches
• Training wheels
• Not be hard on yourself
• Connoisseur
• Slap-stick humor

Quick Definitions:

• “Having a lovely, long soak in the bath”: to lie immersed in liquid.
• A-ha moment: a moment of a strong realization.
• Jigsaw: a puzzle consisting of a picture printed on cardboard or wood and cut into various pieces of different shapes that have to be fitted together.
• “Making your learning with a clip active is like rocket fuel for you ability to learn”: something that gives you energy or encourages you to do something, or that encourages something to happen.
• Deliberate practice: a special type of practice that is purposeful and systematic.
• Have a good grip of something: understanding of a topic or concept.
• “Discourse Markers are going to buy you thinking time”: If you buy some time, you create some extra time in order to do something.
• “It’s a must-have in your arsenal of English-learning tools”: A must-have is essential or highly desirable. An arsenal is an array of resources available for a certain purpose..
• “If you don’t know connected speech you’re going to feel like a deer in the headlights“: totally unable to understand.
• Mind-boggling: extremely surprising and difficult to understand or imagine.
• Keep at it: continue doing something despite its difficulty.
• Mumble: to speak quietly and in a way that is not clear so that the words are difficult to understand.
• “Americans are notorious for not understand the British very well”: famous for something bad.

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