Any good recent articles that show how watching TV or video can help learn a second language?

Question

I'm doing research on how TV or video can actually help someone acquire a second language. I'd appreciate any help from anyone with some extra time on their hands. I'm looking for some recent online articles.

Answer 1

No articles, but living in MX for the last 8 years. My son (26) who has watched Telemundo at home, has been more fluent in Spanish than I in the first 3 years of my move.

He never took a second language while in school!

Answer 2

No. It doesn't seem like there's much video out there. Audio is very effective. The short fall there is they only go to second year which is not nearly enough. The videos on public TV would be more helpful with a voice over of the English else now my attention span and interest level on them is low. The best is to go to another country where you're forced to use the language and you think 24/7 in it. Thinking in the language is key. Look at all that study time. You could be the first to come up with the perfect video series. Yahoo. Films with subtitles under the foreign word also in the subtile. Maybe pauses in the videos to say the phrase. Currently subtitles go by too fast. Until some of that happens, go live in the country, tried and true, but never think easy. Oh, here's a funny solution. The say if you get a frontal labotomy and they cut out the English in the front, center, your second language comes out, It was being supressed by the dominant first language. That's why abandoning the primary language is primary. ja You never learn and what you do know learn is only enough to teach without total emersion for about 2 years probably minimum and your still no UN translator. There's at least a half million words, for heaven's sake. What I got out of it is seeing words don't overlap exactly always and some times by a good margin. It also helps to know that when you talk to another English speaker it's the sameoverlap and your really speaking slightly different languages. It's most notable when you have totally different ways of using your mind and different beliefs. Something you say to one person is a lie to another, but that's the way you have to say it for the first person to understand you. Weird. You can say something and say the reverse and it's the truth to both persons even when it's the opposite and both are true? You might say English is more than one language. That explains a few things. Hmm.