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To Subtitle or not To Subtitle?

Apr 14th

YouTube-style or based sites are undoubtedly growing like mushrooms these days, one of their most promising aspects being the use of music video-clips - either subtitled or accompanied by lyrics - to practice English.

SubInglés is a good site to improve your English through songs and subtitled videos. Don’t worry about your howling – neighbours will finally understand.

Another well organised site to learn and practice English with enternaining videos is Yappr. Here you are encouraged to join their community, which gives you the opportunity to take part in a chat, share your own videos, save your favourite ones, etc.

A little bit different view is provided in dotSUB. As they assert, it is browser based tool enabling subtitling of videos on the web into and from any language. ‘Any language’ means English is not preeminent here.

ESLvideo is focused on listening comprehension through questions about grammar and vocabulary. After the questions you can read the transcript and some notes on grammar. It covers a wide variety of topics appart from music video clips.

The Daily English Show is an Internet show for English students, English teachers and those interested in the English language and language study. The videos and scripts are free to watch and use in your classroom. You can watch the show on many other sites. You can also subscribe to TDES as a podcast and watch it on your video iPod.

TeacherTube. An online community for sharing instructional videos.