Yesterday I watched the serial "how I met your mother" in english; I tried this serial and exactly the same episode a few weeks ago, and, again, yesterday I had exactly the same feeling: very nice to watch and very nice people! But what did they say?
Oh, I am sorry, I can remember one expression: "spectacles", which I heard the last time years ago... Nowadays I always hear the word "glasses" -- funny, how a word can be pushed away from the daily use!
And the rest of those remaining 29 minutes and 30 seconds (how long the episodes runs), I kept watching those nice people...
So summarizing of this adventure: The serial "How I met your mother" is a really hard on english, but seems to be funny, if I watch a native-speaker watching this serial.. but so far: I cannot judge! Honestly: I have already watched several serials and movies before in english, and there are definitely differences in watching english tv or movies (dialect and speed are for me the main points) -- this serial is definitely a quite difficult one. During the last english course on the FH I heard a very good idea by a shool colleague: He watches english movies or tv with ENGLISH subtitles, which means -- you can follow the english words, but what you cannot understand, you can also read the words below.
So for the next time: I will try this plan for my favourite episode of "how I met your mother" -- and lets see, if finally I will understand this period, after the 3rd time!
Samstag, 17. März 2007
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Hi Niki,
I think your blog is great! I'm really looking forward to seeing how these RSS things can work for us (problem is I'm just not sure HOW they work!) and am looking forward to the answer next week.
I read you post about watching the file/ series in English. A piece of advice is to approach it from a low level initially - i.e. listen for something specific (like: what are the situations where they mention "spectacles") and once you pass that stage to listen for something a bit broader. Make sense??
Best wishes
Martin
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