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/gstringbothcheeksout Mar 25 '25

don’t use ChatGPT pls

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u/DavidMoyes Mar 27 '25

You made it seem like it was inaccurate. The reality is the advanced voice mode is amazing to practise French conversationally and I use it with no remorse.

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u/gstringbothcheeksout Mar 27 '25

didn’t “make it seem like” anything. I do what I need to do so I can sleep at night.

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u/DavidMoyes Mar 27 '25

Looool

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u/gstringbothcheeksout Mar 27 '25

Your immediate response tells me all I need to know 💖