Practice a foriegn language by watching a movie in that language

It was Friday afternoon at work when I decided that Brent and I needed to get out of the house that evening. So I went to my favorite indie theatre website to check out what was playing, and what did I find, but a Russian foreign film.

It's called Daywatch, and it's a sequel to Nightwatch (currently at the top of our Netflix queue). It reminded me of a book by F. Paul Wilson - one of my favorite authors. Pretty violent - it definitely deserved it's R rating - but an awesome movie. I would recommend it, if violence doesn't bother you, and you're not epileptic....

Anyway, obviously it was subtitled - I'm not near good enough in Russian to understand a movie. But there were some spoken words I recognized, and it was helpful because normal spoken language is not going to sound like the slowly enunciated words on the "Learn Russian in a Day" CD. I also tried to read every sign, some of which I understood. I think the best practice for me was the credits. Since Russian uses the Crylic alphabet, I tried to sound out the names and recognize letters. It was really hard. Most of the names I couldn't make out until they had almost scrolled off the top of the screen. It was pretty cool, and I was proud of myself for even understanding 5 words in the whole movie.