But it depends on the kind of movie. The higher quality has a lot of effects that will disturb you to hear the words clearly; These podcasts will have a slower pace of speaking than that of a movie and are designed to get you used to the language. Then I divided the time of the movie into 5 minutes; so for example if a movie was 2 hours (120 minutes), I divided it to 24 parts each 5 minutes. As a non-native English speaker, I can understand very well American movies. 11:56. At the end of this, I’ll share how to learn English online with live native tutoring, with the opportunity to get 100% of your tuition refunded!! But for Comedy movies..I can laugh to what they re talking…(even I don't understand what they talked)..but I just try to guess what they mean. Usually there're two options the 5.1 and 2.0. Why is it that you can understand some English speakers and not others? نتایج برچسب: how to understand english movies. There're some things you can do to improve your comprehension: Select the lower audio's quality. This is how your English teacher talks. Since you are finding movies a bit hard to understand, I would suggest listening to podcasts designed for English learners. Use headphones, it definitely helps. How to Learn English - Use Movies and TV to Learn English. I would start a journal, personally. some movies that not have Translation text..sometimes make me confuse!! For each 5 minutes, I used to listen to each sentence and try to write down whatever was being said and when my 5 minutes finished, I used to check it with the English subtitles to see how much of it I got right. American english is easier to understand comparing to other accents like Irish/italian people talking in english. Watch a movie and have the journal next to you as it plays, write down interesting things as they come on screen, and see if they have a purpose within the film itself and write that down too. Become more educated on literary devices and you will, in turn, start to understand how movies work - as all movies are birthed from a screenplay. By choosing movies appropriate to your level and in increasing level of difficulty so that you can move from lower to higher levels. Why is it even harder to understand native English speakers in movies or Netflix series? What I wanna say ..Better U choose comedy..it is easier to understand.