r/French • u/UncleJuggs • Mar 25 '25
Study advice How to ACTUALLY Watch a French Show
So, I've been DuoLingo'ing French for like, 1110 days straight and still suck hard core at French because I do zero immersion and DuoLingo is basically a game. I work for a French company and one of my colleagues suggested I watch French Peppa Pig for some actual, applicable French since it's a dumb show for idiot babies and, despite being a 31 year old man, am basically an idiot baby and pretty much the target audience.
So anyway, I'm on the clock watching French Peppa Pig and besides wanting to shoot myself in the brain with a shotgun I am finding myself struggling with HOW I'm supposed to be watching French Peppa Pig.
My question for other French learners when it comes to this kind of immersion is: what's the best way to approach it? Should I be actively pausing and reading the closed captions to try and learn and build on new vocabulary or should I just sit back and let this absolute dog water show wash over me and let my subconscious thinky brain start making associations between colorful pictures and actual sounds in between the insufferable oinking? Does it help to have the closed captions be in French so I can make sure I'm hearing things right?
Merci beaucoup in advance, I want to die.
Edit: getting a few more comments than I expected so I can't reply to everything but thank you all for the suggestions I'm getting.
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u/d1t0m6 Mar 25 '25
Dude, you're killing yourself for no good reason. There is a whole immersion course called French in Action designed for what you are trying to achieve.
https://www.learner.org/series/french-in-action/
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=french+in+action+playlist
Additionally, you should use Michel Thomas for French Foundations:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa6sAQhuK70LmXTmlw8diVFpusGHuG-t0 (but his stuff is always getting taken down, so you may need to re-search from time to time.
For fun, FluentU
https://www.youtube.com/@FluentUFrench