How to read FANTASY in a foreign language

Could you use Game of Thrones to learn a language?
This video explains why George R. R. Martin's books are great for language learning and why the fantasy genre in general is very effective for learning a language.
If you want to learn a language to fluency, you can do so by reading Game of Thrones.
This video is about how to learn a language by reading Game of Thrones and how to learn a language by reading fantasy.

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The dragon eye for the thumbnail came from this video:

The YouTube clips used in this video were from Captain Sinbad, my favourite YouTuber:

The movies and TV shows shown are:
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
Game of Thrones
Kung Fu Panda
Robin Hood (2010)
How to Train Your Dragon

OK if you've reached the end of the description then you obviously need something to do. Well... You can basically watch this video again because I worked HARD on this one and there's a lot of little touches that you probably didn't notice. If you find one of those little touches, please comment and let me know what you saw!

[daysandwords]

You've got a lot of immersion to look forward to. What are you going to immerse in?

[Crake]

This video was super intense. Like, by the end of it, I didn't know if I wanted to fight a dragon or learn a language.

[jacjones]

Honestly this channel is so underrated. So much good, honest and very very useful information on how to efficiently learn a language. Big thanks for all the info!

[conradmarch]

My youngest daughter graduated from university with a degree in linguistics. She said years ago that immersion in a language is essential to speaking it fluently. Now that I just started learning Swedish, from what you said here I now understand what she meant.

[hmmerxb]

Hearing an Australian accent saying "Winter is coming" is somehow very ominous.

[cndcpwll]

If you find yourself enjoying fantasy, I HIGHLY recommend both the Mistborn series (Brandon Sanderson) and also the KingKiller Chronicles (Patrick Rothfuss).

[fryrish]

Start with Harry Potter, advance to Game of Thrones, then graduate with Lord of the Rings. Throw in a little Name of the Wind, Wheel of Time, Charles Stross, or classic sci fi on the way.

[amelijaceica]

Cool video! I really love your channel, feels like it's one of the only language learning channels that isn't unrealistic and "cilckbaity" and actually has solid advice!

[mhblxnx]

I've had a great time with the Spanish podcast "El gran apagón". It's fiction, and I really enjoyed the story. There are three seasons, and I listened to some episodes more than once. I've realised that fiction podcasts work better for me than nonfiction in capturing my attention. On the other hand, they are more difficult to understand.

[jillaroo]

Love your videos. I simply love the fact, that you not only reached a very high level in swedish but also dived over time deep into the scientific aspect of language learning. And we are all very lucky, that you share your findings with us. I have to admit, that I do not like learning languages at all, until I reach the point of comprehending native content. Once, I crossed that stage, I am getting obsessed with immersion myself in the language. It is pure enjoyment. Hence, all the pain I have to suffer prior that stage, is paid back million fold. Currently working on getting my third foreign language into that stage. I will think about afterwards, if I will ever add a new one or if I just focus on brining those I already speak, to a real native level. Many greetings from Germany.

[ShaneGodliman]

Very bold of you to assume that none of my friends are in fact Queens, dwarves or dragons....

[FrenchinPlainSight]

Listened to most of this on my walk home so I had the benefit of appreciate your script writing. Concise and incredibly motivating, with numbers to back things up. Great work.

[sb]

I have benefited so much from your channel in my journey toward fluency in Norwegian. I still have a long way to go, but watching your channel has given me inspiration and a lot of useful tips. Thank you!!!!

[TheEcletickGamer]

Man ! so glad the algorithm bring me up your channel ! Im on my own journey on nihongo, and it will be my 3rd language by the way. Cheers from Brazil!

[tristacho]

I've been straight up clueless but immersing in Hungarian videos, audio books, etc to supplement my other studies and I was starting to feel crazy aside from the few things I could pick out but now I feel powerful thank you

[sonjah.]

There really is much to be said for having a large corpus of input. I have been studying Turkish for two years now, and for the biggest part of the first year I watched a Turkish telenovela called Kara Para Aşk (with subtitles, though). I liked it enough to watch at least half an hour on most days, and the whole series was about 120 hours long. Of course I did a lot of other study activities. But the series helped me to gauge my progress, because I went from not understanding anything to understanding the usual greetings plus a single word here and there to understanding whole sentences and even short dialogues when the characters were saying easy things. What I liked most about the whole experience was not having to think about what I was going to watch every single time, I just went on netflix and picked it up where I had left it the day before. Since then I haven't found another series that I enjoy as much, which is a pity, because I think that it made a big difference and that I could benefit from it even more by now.

[stangrzymala]

I'm doing that with my english, actually I'm reading The Stand epic book of S. King.

[juliantravis]

This is actually a really good video. Your videos do a really good job about the reality of language learning good and bad. I really hope your channel does well. I recently moved to a new country for work and need to learn the language but want to maintain the last language I learned. Hopefully you can do a video on maintaining a language some time.

[jamesmccloud]

Great video, very informative and inspiring. It actually felt like I was watching a Captain Sinbad video but for languages! Especially at the end lol

[sarahnichols]

I just bought Vampire Academy in German and downloaded the audio...I am so excited to read/listen to a book I love in a different language ❤