This seems like overkill to me, but Lamont is speaking very highly of this method. I personally rewatch movies extremely rarely, and the number of movies that I have seen more than once is very small, so the idea of watching one movie 50 times is rather nauseating.

I do, however, concur that re-consuming A/V media in an L2 is beneficial to me, as I noticed that I tend to struggle with correctly interpreting grammar the first time around.

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    Really cool idea. I am thr type that likes a confortable rut, and I need more listening practice.

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      1 year ago

      Refold (who Lamont is a partner of) focuses quite heavily on L-R for the beginning stages. I agree it’s quite interesting to see!

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    I think I might give it a go for a movie 10x. I have about 1600 hours until fairly okay fluency aparently so 10-20 hours wouldn’t be too much out of that time. I may have to mix in other content while I do that though haha.

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    I feel like 3-5 times would be best as you get to rematch and understand new parts without it becoming mind-numbing.

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    I’m a big fan of comic operas/operettas, and repeat listening to particular shows has honestly helped my German quite a lot. It’s a pretty good way to train your neural network for grammar. And the music makes it a lot more fun to listen to the same things repeatedly!