This method made watching French shows way more useful for me!
So I’ve been getting a little creative with how I study French lately and found something that’s actually been working really well. I’m around a B2 level and have been watching shows on ICI TOU.TV with only French subtitles. I understand maybe 60–70% of what’s going on, but the speed and the Québec accent still make it pretty challenging.
What I started doing is recording the dialogue using the Notes app on my iPhone with voice-to-text. Then I take a scene I struggled with—usually a more emotional or fast-paced one—and paste the transcript into ChatGPT. I tell it what show I’m watching and which episode I’m on, and then ask it to help me practice.
It’ll ask me questions about what I understood, get me to summarize the scene in French, correct my grammar, and explain expressions or things I missed. It turns it into something way more interactive instead of just passively watching.
Honestly it feels a lot more effective than just watching episodes straight through. Curious if anyone else is doing something similar or has other ways to break down native content.