Al cine en español

There's a new class coming up at OLLI at Southern Oregon University this October.  It's called Al cine en español.  We'll be using a movie, and maybe a video or two, to help decipher spoken Spanish.  We'll watch a bit, stop, think, go back, repeat...with vocab and grammar help as appropriate.

Other opportunities are available on the FluentU.com site.  Great videos from many lands, at all levels from "newbie" to "native/bilingual".  There are subtitles as well as word-by-word explication.  Check it out.

Using video/film to learn language gives you lots of advantages - time, repeats, colloquial language. and no embarrassment about not getting it all the first time! 

• Take it slowly. Give yourself time to think, try listening without subtitles a few times first.
• Don't tackle an entire film.  Choose one or two scenes at a time.
• Choose one variety of Spanish, for example, Mexican, peninsular Spanish, Argentinian, etc.  
• Choose videos you enjoy!  
• Listen most carefully to monologues or simple, two-person dialog sections.  Busy street scenes or group conversations are more difficult to manage.  
• Try putting yourself in the place of one of the characters and see if you can say his lines yourself.  

And, if you can get a few laughs, even better!
¡Que te diviertas!