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Can Kids TV Create Fluency in Another Language?

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Im from saudi arabia but i used to watch english kids shows when i was younger so even though my english isnt super good i still speak it fluently
Comment from : @jujo-atj

Mf do you expect me to materialize the pronunciation of those kanji
Comment from : @LucasPlay171

I will try it with German and I will see how much I progress in 100days brI will do a weekly update
Comment from : @TadTadjao88887

I should grow younger again and watch German kid shows to master it
Comment from : @DoodiePunk

Watching El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera in spanish despite the original language of the show being english is quite an experience
Comment from : @doctordestructo3360

English is not my first language and also not my second language, it is my third language although they teach us English in schools here but I remember the time when I could not understand simple sentences when I watch cartoons and read novels now I want to learn French but I don't really remember how I learned English it just happened!
Comment from : @AdrienWilliams-m3x

2:36 hear a word 20 times in context to acquire it
Comment from : @ThankGodItDontGotThatInIt1

Gratz on getting a video over 200k views, thats nuts from such a small channel I mean it makes sense though because your content is solid Also i appreciate the links to the youtube channels for all the spongebob content!
Comment from : @BooksWithBrad

this is how i learned german in germany was sick for 2 weeks and just watched children's tv all day plus i had a german dictionary next to me for words i kept hearing but couldn't figure out
Comment from : @dreanki

I literally learned English because I was fascinated by MLP as a child, especially the songs
Comment from : @janesoren4079

He refers to "colourful visuals that aid in understanding", but does his algorithm take this into account?
Comment from : @oliversissonphone6143

Bet, im watching bluey in spanish and korean
Comment from : @enchantedlibrary3409

This is fascinating research! When I was first learning French, I tortured myself by watching Caillou, but it absolutely helped One thing I would encourage learners to remember, though, is that both Friends and Spongebob are American shows written with American humor and AmE conversation patterns and flow It may be a good idea to use such shows as a springboard at the beginning to acquire vocabulary and hone one's listening comprehension skills, but I would encourage anybody who uses this method to eventually graduate to shows originally written in their TL (unless AmE happens to be their TL, of course) Just as an example, I have noticed that standard German text has a different flavor when compared to German text that has been translated from English
Comment from : @pseudolus7963

Language reactor
Comment from : @Nusae

Unfortunate for me that the language I spent two years learning is one that has a dwindling number of speakers and rarely receives any media translations
Comment from : @TheGreySpectrum

Yes
Comment from : @wellesradio

It's kind of weird listing the words "wanna kill myself" in order Are you doing ok?
Comment from : @smoaty4891

wanna kill myself was there deliberately right?>
Comment from : @tr4nce206

For Mandarin Chinese, 'Big Ear Tutu' was really enjoyable, some of it is available on youtube as well
Comment from : @alliedatheistalliance6776

i learned german b1 from pixar movies and other easy content, german gaming videos to get the slang words, anki for memorization and duolingo to learn the very basics it all took about 2 years
Comment from : @MasterCriminal0

I love watching kids' shows in Irish for practice brbrCé chónaíonn in anann l mbun an aigéin?brSpongeBob SquarePants!brÉ súiteach is buí is póiriúil ann féin?brSpongeBob Squarepants!brMás amaidíocht mara atá uait l do chroí?brSpongeBob SquarePants!brSuas ar an deic agus téimís ag spraoi?brSpongeBob SquarePants!
Comment from : @amydebuitleir

5:28brYou good bro?brIs it really just a coincidence that the words "wanna", "kill", and "myself" are all lined up in that exact order???
Comment from : @anattemptwasmade

This is so true I'm living proof of this
Comment from : @1687angle

My brother learned German by just watching Spondgebob when he was a kid, he never spoke the language but thanks to those years as a kid he understands it :D
Comment from : @aniapodlesny7080

Thank you for this 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Comment from : @Thesatinsky

I’m learning French and prefer SpongeBob for it
Comment from : @thehapagirl92

I’m not sold I’ve been studying Portuguese for a full year now, and while I know a lot of words, I still struggle to understand dialog or speech I watched the entirety of Bluey, Gravity Falls, Duck Tales, Star vs The Forces of Evil, and quite a few Disney animated movies in Portuguese I watch at least one episode per day, and it still doesn’t make sense to me I have learned quite a large vocabulary (around 2000 words) through focused study and memorization using flash cards and apps I study grammar and rules, and I’m really good at recalling the meaning of those words when quizzed But when I watch a kids show in my target language, I have no idea what they’re saying I understand a few words, but the meaning of the sentence as a whole is lost Without the studying, the books, the lessons, the flash cards, I’d have no idea what those words even mean just from watching the showbrI get that you have to learn to listen to your target language, but any benefit to watching a kids show won’t appear until you have a very strong foundation and significant vocabulary built up first Otherwise it’s just nonsense sounds
Comment from : @Mike_2501

5:26 "wanna kill myself"
Comment from : @Jmbelaz

As a kid who's first language was english and living in Malaysia, I ended up learning some malay by watching the malay dub of SpongeBob SquarePants
Comment from : @NyanLinHtet-j2f

You sneaked in "idiot" in the common word list and you think we didn't notice
Comment from : @FeindrplaysMC

The big difference is that adult shows talk about metaphysical things or things that are often not in the frame Which makes them very hard understand as a beginner
Comment from : @user-iu6hu8oq5p

I might try this challenge to learn Norwegian I learnt a lot of my English from watching cartoons growing up so this is right up my alley As a wanna be polyglot, there's so many languages I want to learn for practical reasons but also for the ✨vibes✨ I'll try this approach and see if I can document my experience Thanks so much for the awesome content❤(Now, I just need to find a good show🥲)
Comment from : @salmaalilife

gonna try this
Comment from : @thomasmeijer7650

I'll have to try this with Hebrew so that I can learn the language of my enemy
Comment from : @KateHikes88

SpongeBob basically taught me English after I migrated Taught me more in one season than any year of school did
Comment from : @kevinmerlos409

So how can I learn Arabic now? The arabic SpongeBob channel only has arabic translation
Comment from : @hansbloch3239

i learned english from watching youtube videos in english from a young age (6 years old)
Comment from : @layan1533

Poop
Comment from : @bud-yo

I know this works cause I did this when I was a child, way back in the 90s My dad had cable tv before it became popular in Sweden, watched loads of cartoon network, that helped improve my English (funny enough, English is my first language, something very unusual for a Swedish person)
Comment from : @SvengelskaBlondie

You can use masha and the bear for russian!
Comment from : @Sootmannn

Well, me personally learned a lot back in my days of being a small Russian kid watching old US cartoons and playing GTA Vice City or San Andreas
Comment from : @denisgut

Great to see a fellow jew on this platform
Comment from : @theunholyburger9338

Well me and my sister watched German kids television for years, among the cartoons being SpongeBob Squarepants, and haven't learned a single word of German
Comment from : @rotkvica45

both are not fun to watch :/
Comment from : @allafleche

guess i will watch spanish spongebob today
Comment from : @sorenlampe951

also the early spongebob is goated while friends kinda sucks
Comment from : @berman5963

I have watched thousands of hours of different English videos to practice audition skills, and, to be honest, I don't think it helps me learn English You can spend time more efficiently
Comment from : @NeuralAcademy

Think cartoons are more useful for beginner because sentence structures are simplier too, like "He is crying because he is sad" vs "He is not talking with you because you know what you did(many episodes later) you aborted his child!"brbrAnd also the repetition Shows for kids usually explore one problem at the time, so there is many times when you can hear again that simple structure While adult shows will explore more complex side of the problems and almost try to solve them at the same time (in fact there is many different stories in the single episode)
Comment from : @flutterin4595

Just looking at this guy puts me in the mood for a bagel
Comment from : @boomingbullet

bcries in na'vi/b
Comment from : @rainbowfox1075

Если вы взрослый но вам нужно выучить русский, советую посмотреть смешариков
Comment from : @LenidKrobkovich

Now I'm gonna go watch The Moomins in Finnish
Comment from : @AK_7811B

for anybody learning French, I highly recommend the kid's show Trotro! it's very sweet, fun to watch, and has simple vocabulary my French teacher would make us watch about two episodes a week of this show, and it definitely helped me reach my current level in French :D
Comment from : @Jo-dk9my

I would totally love to watch SpongeBob in German
Comment from : @hentaimonster

Thank you meIsrael achi, much love ❤
Comment from : @theminer4908

Is there any kids tv show in Chinese about table tennis? 💀
Comment from : @BrunoNeureiter

Kids shows are what made me fluent in Hindi
Comment from : @o0957

As Bangladeshi kid who grew up watching hindi tv shows and cartoons dubbed in hindi I can confirm this I can understand and speak hindi pretty well as a direct result of watching tv
Comment from : @SakibHasan-ks2fe

I learned Russian this way so I guess it's possible
Comment from : @AnimesnikSenpai-pl9vz

Of course Watching vlogs and videos in english made me learn many new vocabs and how to improve pronunciationbrAs for Arabic dialects, when I took note for every new word and phrase I learned, my speaking akills went up
Comment from : @nufailanoon

Yup! Learned Spanish at 3 from watching telenovelas with grandma Learned English from watching Power Puff Girls, Simpson’s, and other American shows as a kid Both had subtitles in my mother tongue (Serbian) Most girls my age from my country speak both Spanish and English because of these shows haha Guys didn’t watch telenovelas so didn’t learn Spanish 😂
Comment from : @td5916

Famous South Korean soccer player Son Heung-min used spongebob to learn german when he was living there
Comment from : @drillalyrics77

Somebody, could you please recommend me a cartoon or tv series,shows in frenchI am currently learning this
Comment from : @Guluuuuuuu

Thats how I learned german as a kid watching super rtl, because the shows were more interesting than in my first language
Comment from : @_Kapibara_2137

It’s easily one of the best ways to learn a language, in my experience
Comment from : @TheSocratesofAthens

Nope
Comment from : @Pandainapandasuit

Nun ni nur bezonas SpongeBob en l'esperanta
Comment from : @meledisu

I found your channel just in perfect time, while asking these exact questions to myself Thank you for all these researches You are doing amazing!
Comment from : @tolgatrades

i am not sure when i grew up i learned English from shows for adults since kids shows are dubbed here one advantage of kids content is just that its dubbed in more languages and in some countries kids dubs are actually better than those for mature movies like in polish you really don't want to watch non polish movies in polish but cartoons sound quite good all countries make movies but some don't have certain genres like in my native language Dutch most movies are either comedy or a grimdark thrillers they are good but there are not a lot of sci-fi or fantasy movies i think SpongeBob can still be funny as and adult but most kids shows i liked as a kid seem very lame now
Comment from : @belstar1128

我看小猪佩奇为学中文brbrPeppa Pig is also very helpful and the fact it has alot of foreign language dub, short and simple episodes for busy schedules and simple casual conversations with subtitles for the target language makes it one of the best content to use in learning a language
Comment from : @StarDisc_MultiMedia

I will admit sthbrWhen i learned English when i was a 14 yo teenager, 3 things has helped me: kids TV shows and animated series, dubbed anime, and like a famous guy once said: "and h3nt4i, too" (well p*rn lol)brI don't like the newer kids series, but the ones I grew up with, I remembered in great details Finding a translation of that helps alot Anime is eternal It helped with slangs And adult contents helped with the ADVANCE slangs and a lot more (gotta be the one with actual plot)brI personally do not recommend to anyone tho, I have my own system, adult contents are digital drugs and are easily used wrong Using it wrong will destroy one's life
Comment from : @laziecatus7233

Well, I have been learning French via watching Movies but with subtitles, Immersive translate helps me to generate them and I can acknowledge that movies can help gain fluency
Comment from : @-nf9vt

Thank you for the research sir!!
Comment from : @matthewcoleman6680

bSigh/bbrbTurns on Miraculous Ladybug in french dub/b
Comment from : @mehakverma7043

How about kids podcasts?
Comment from : @jambomambo3808

The Filipino dub of SpongeBob is lost media 😐
Comment from : @22joshbb

I feel so inspired 🤩 I wrote some python scripts to make a vocab list for each episode and track when words hit the 20 occurrences mark brbrI am going to start with Barbie Life in the Dreamhouse on Netflix, which is a really fun cartoon even for adults with a surprising amount of dubbed languages ❤ I can come back and reply to my comment with updates!
Comment from : @splashy8098

I'm from a Brazilian, I'm learning English I'm sorry if I'm writing in the children of 4 years old, and because I'm used to the process of the children starting the study the 46 days
Comment from : @Jhonatancomh

I wish the show would have ended after the first movie came out like the creator intended When he died, nick ruined the show, just like he feared
Comment from : @summerweendream9706

I'm learning a lot from CoD's lobbies That guys really give enphase in what they say
Comment from : @marlondiriche

Are you a Jew? Because you wear a Kippa
Comment from : @emreeryurt9758

Your channel came into my feed while I was watching Why Is SpongeBob Scared on FluentU FluentU includes explanations of the content Do you think this type of learning is effective also?
Comment from : @lindagm9332