Speaking of language learning, if anybody has any recommendations

[conuly]

for simple videos - on youtube or any streaming service - or podcasts or written stories for beginners who need more real-world practice, I'd appreciate it!

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[ioplokon]

The app itself is kinda bad but Radio Canada's Ohdio has a lot of audiobooks and podcasts in French, including some geared for children (so simpler vocabulary/sentence structure & explaining key terms). Kwiziq also has a decent amount of free resources that are pretty good (mostly French from France).

[kareina]

I can't help with French or Spanish, but I can say that for me learning Swedish the biggest help was to read translations of old favourites that I had red hundreds of times before. Then I didn't need to waste time looking up what words mean, as I know what that paragraph says.

The thing I wish I had made time for much sooner in the learning process was taking a book and reading and listening to the audio book at the same time. It is hard as a beginner, as if one looks away for a second it can be hard to find the right place again, without starting the chapter over from the beginning, but it gets easier with practice, and it makes a huge difference learning to understand the sounds of a language. If you guys have the Audible app, it has a audiobook-ebook link thing wherein if you have the ebook open when you are listening to the audiobook it will highlight the current words, which I think would make that easier, but I never tried it myself, as when it came out, shortly after I moved to Sweden, they hadn't yet set that up for any Swedish language books, and I no longer live with the partner who has an Audible account, so I don't know if any have come up in the meantime, but since they have switched to a monthly fee rather than letting one buy a book outright, I will never try, so I can only recommend trying it to someone who already has it.

[rebeccmeister]

In high school Spanish classes we would watch Telenovelas for relatively easy-to-understand Spanish. We also watched a number of Pedro Almodovar films, but I think that was more for their cultural relevance.

[profiterole_reads]

Not necessarily simple but they have subs, Netflix's Elite for Spanish and Netflix's Lupin for French.