Learning Tools Reviewed – FluentU

Hello everyone, and welcome to Resource Corner – The series where I review German learning tools. And today, I’ll take a look at an app and platform called: FluentU. It started out as a website for learning Chinese, and it has been around for a few years already, so it’s not completely new and they definitely do know what they’re doing. Now they are expanding and want to make more languages available, among them German. What is FluentU Language learners always yearn for real world input. Well… the web is full with real world input. Problem is… real world input is also really difficult because people speak fast and they mumble. So unless you’re already somewhat advanced, watching a random German Youtube video is not that all that much fun. And that’s where FluentU comes in. They take real world video content from the web (mostly youtube) … stuff like Movie trailers or cooking recipes or beauty tips or news or whatever… and they add German subtitles. Not some shitty speech recognition subtitles, but real subtitles, done by people who understand the language. But there’s more. The subtitles are under the video and if you hover over a word, the video…

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