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NO HABLA ESPAÑOL? HOW NETFLIX COULD TRANSFORM THE WAY WE LEARN LANGUAGES

Amid concern over the fall in pupils studying foreign languages, a new online tool has turned the streaming service into a classroom

For years people around the world have learned English by watching Hollywood movies and costume dramas on the BBC. Now British monoglots have one less excuse for not returning the favour: a new online tool that turns the streaming service Netflix into a sofabased language lab.

Language Learning With Netflix (LLN), a tool that allows viewers to watch foreign language shows with subtitles both in the original language and English, and pauses automatically to allow the learner to absorb what they have just heard, has been downloaded by tens of thousands of people since its launch in December.

Amid growing concern over the falling number of pupils taking foreign languages in secondary schools, some linguists have hailed LLN as a dynamic way of harnessing the educational potential of Netflix, which has programmes in 26 languages in 190 countries, and aims to have 100 non-English language series in production by this year.

David Wilkinson and Ognjen Apic, the two independent developers behind the tool, began the project as a hobby a few years ago and launched their Chrome browser extension in December. A trickle of users has turned into a flood – in the last three weeks more than 30,000 people have downloaded the tool.

“We want to encourage people to use good habits,” Wilkinson said. “At an early stage, students should listen to the language as much as possible. Pump language into the ears and provide a translation that allows you to associate meaning with that.” (...)

The Guardian

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