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Stefan Schubert
@StefanFSchubert
"We find a large positive effect of subtitling on English-language skills of over one standard deviation." Nice to see folk wisdom confirmed.
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Ludger Woessmann
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❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek nber.org/papers/w33984 A🧵1/12
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Henry Shevlin
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I once asked my Japanese teacher how to improve my Japanese listening, and she said “don’t watch dubbed anime; watch it with subtitles.” I said I didn’t really watch anime, dubbed or subbed. She was deeply confused. “If you don’t watch anime then why are you studying Japanese?
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Eros Morales
@CCMarimba
do you think it would be useful for development and soft power to saturate countries like Nigeria, Philippines, India in anglophone media to try to achieve 100% english fluency, luso in Angola, Mozambique etc, french in DRC, Mali, Senegal etc?
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Isaac A Wagner
@IsaacAWagner
Indeed. Dubbing is one of the stupidest things countries do. Kids have their native language in the bag no matter what; why reinforce something that doesn't need reinforcing at the cost of proficiency in the lingua franca? Dubbing also worsens the viewing experience.
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