Ups and downs

[nattalie_m]

While my weight tries to go up, my humor goes down. This month I lost weight then last week I started to gain it back, even when I am not eating flour, sugar, not even cookies! I have been exercising many days at week, but I don’t see any difference yet. Well the only one I could realize is that my body is more elastic now and that I lost 1 cm

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[nahele_101]

Hola Amiga,
So, you wrote recently about learning English more and more, and I think you do really well. I found this study and thought I'd share it with you. I watch a lot of Spanish movies/series with Spanish subtitles on. I don't catch ALL of the dialogue this way, BUT I've found it helps me tune my ear more. Figured you might be interested in the study conclusions based on this post:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4927148/

"The most relevant finding to emerge from this study was a significant improvement in listening scores of ESL speakers, after watching a TV episode in English, with English subtitles (17% increase vs. 7% for no-subtitles and 0% for Spanish subtitles condition). This finding supports the hypothesis that subtitles in the original language can be used to retune the link of speech-sounds with perceptive categories, so that intermediate to advanced English learners can adapt to English sounds in a more efficient

[nattalie_m]

Thank you for sharing! When I watch series I do with English subtitles if it is possible. The problem is that I don't watch series so often because lack of time. I should look for a short serie, 20-30 minutes each episode or something like that and watch 1 episode every day. Any recommendation?

[nahele_101]

Qué tipo de programas te gustan? Dame una idea y te responderé!
What kind of shows do you like? Give me an idea, and I will get back to you!

[nattalie_m]

Comedias, suspenso, policiales son mis favoritas
Anoche miré "Modern Family" que tiene episodios cortos, de 23 minutos , pero hablan muy rápido!