Some of my blogging time lately has been diverted to watching Friends, in German, on my PC. It's more fun than blogging. And it's more fun than I expected it to be.
Before December, I don't think I had ever watched an entire episode of Friends. I had watched enough only to recognize the main characters. But for a Christmas present, I asked for, and got, a DVD collection of the complete season 6 of Friends in Geman. It's PAL video format, and it's Region 2 encoding on the DVD, but with a $50 DVD player permanently set to Region 2, watching the show on a PC is no problem.
So, is this a good way to improve one's conversational German? Who cares!? It's fun! This is away better than just listening to audio in the car.
If you are wanting to learn a foreign language, I highly recommend watching videos like this!
And now, if you will excuse me, I'm going to watch Friends.
Posted by Doug Sauder at January 13, 2004 10:13 PM