Crosspost from https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning
Did you ever ask the person who speaks surprisingly good English how they learned it? “Oh I just watched tv series and movies with subtitles.” Your eyes lower and your expression hardens, a pang of jealously, “Well.. I would do that too, but it’s hard to find movies with subtitles in Japanese..” (ok, ok not that hard in Japanese 😉
Rolled this out today: Language Reactor uses speech recognition to make good matching subtitles in 20+ languages. This turns Netflix into the language learning superweapon it was always supposed to be. Breaking Bad in German? Seinfeld in Portuguese? Bob Squarepants in Sweedish? Yes.
How to use it? It’s a ‘Pro’ feature ($40/year), but you can try it during the 2-week free period, or on ‘Money Heist’ (all 41 episodes). Just install the extension and open Netflix (http://languagereactor.com/), the extra tracks are listed in the playback menu. I might add a couple more free series, ask nicely. 😉
More info and discussion here: https://forum.languagelearningwithnetflix.com/t/new-feature-speech-recognition-on-netflix-subs-for-dubs/13023
EDIT: also we made a free chatbot: https://www.languagereactor.com/chatbot , and this cool tool that can’t easily be explained: https://www.languagereactor.com/phrasepump