The one we like to use is called “Video Speed Controller” and it works on Chrome and Firefox. Fortunately, there are great apps that will add this option to all HTML videos in your browser. Most other video services on the web don’t have that slow option built in. If you try to slow it down further, the video might sound too robotic to be truly beneficial. We find that 0.75 works great for most videos. Simply click on the settings menu, and choose your preferred speed. In YouTube, there is already a feature that’s built in to slow down the videos. The good news is that you can slow them down digitally to make things easier to understand. The problem is that most videos weren’t created with language learning in mind, so they’ll speak very fast. They are millions of them, so it’s very easy to find topics you find interesting. Videos, on the other hand, are virtually unlimited and are very engaging. Slow podcasts are great, but they’re limited and can get a bit boring after a while. The power of listening to slow audio and reading at the same time is incredible. Some of them even have the transcript to follow along.

Just type in “slow Spanish”, “slow French”, or any language in Google and you’ll find a variety of podcasts that have been recorded slowly. Finding slow podcasts online is quite easy in most languages. Material that has been recorded using a slow pronunciation sounds more natural than digitally slowed down audio. In the OUINO program, everything was recorded in two pronunciation speeds to help you understand native speakers, but what about everything else? In this post, we’ll show you a few online resources to slow things down when learning a new language. Sure, you’ll eventually need to get used to that speed, but slow pronunciation is very useful in the beginning stages. It doesn’t really matter what language you’re learning, native speakers often speak way too fast for a beginner to make out the words. One of the biggest obstacles of learning a new language is to get used to the speed of native speakers.

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