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Comment author: elharo 26 May 2013 12:23:43PM *  3 points [-]

I wonder, is it possible to slow down shows for those of us trying to learn a new language who have not yet reached 1X fluency? Assuming it's technically feasible, does it help? I'll have to try that.

Comment author: edanm 26 May 2013 03:19:44PM 1 point [-]

Very interesting idea, hadn't thought of thought. You can technically slow down shows in VLC by pressing the - key, it slows to 0.67X speed I believe.

Please let us know what you find, I may try it out myself for practicing Spanish.

Comment author: Baughn 31 May 2013 01:46:53PM 0 points [-]

Yep, that works. See uncle post - usually I speed things up, but for hard-to-understand shows I've found that slowing them down gives me more time to correlate subs and audio - or to try comprehending the audio without subs, at that.