 Hello, hello there. Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here. For this video today, I want to talk about my ongoing progress in improving my Hebrew through watching hours and hours and hours of Israeli television that I have found on YouTube. So I've been doing a number of videos over the past few weeks about various components of this methodology. I've been sharing them on the Hebrew subreddit, which is called art Hebrew. I've been sharing my playlist in a couple of Facebook groups. It's not an attempt at self promotion. It's just because it's helping me and I'm certain that there are other Hebrew learners who could be helped by this too. So I'm open sourcing everything that I figure out essentially, which is also kind of why I started this YouTube channel. I just enjoy sharing all this stuff. So what I've been doing is I figured out a way to translate Hebrew captions into English. This is a YouTube feature called automatic translation. That has been around for about, I think the past year. I'm not entirely sure, but it works on the desktop to if you have one human origin subtitle file, and I'll get to all the channels and playlists in it a little while. If you've won human origin subtitle file, one subtitle file that wasn't created through speech to text recognition, someone actually sat down and created that file. Then using the YouTube desktop, there is an option in subtitle options called auto translate, and you can translate the Hebrew captions into whatever language you want, whether it's English, French, Russian, whatever is your mother tongue. And this for me is an amazing way to improve vocabulary and pick up new words. I learned recently there's actually a word to describe the point one gets to when, you know, it's kind of where my Hebrew has been stuck for the past couple of years, and I suspect lots more people. It's called the intermediate plateau. It's when you have enough language, you've got past the beginner phase, you know how to get by basic conversations, but you're lacking that kind of richness in Otsar Milim in vocabulary that, you know, you want to describe something using precise adjectives. And all you have is a really basic stuff and you end up sounding very basic. And it's frustrating because you have the word in your mother tongue kind of circling in your head, but you just can't hit on the Hebrew nuance. I would say that's kind of my the struggle of me is being lacking nuance to express myself in Hebrew. So watching hours of TV has really helped. It's not something that comes naturally to me. I'm not a big TV watcher, but I'm setting aside two to three hours per night to open up my playlist, put them on the put them on the connect my laptop to the TV, and I just watch and watch and watch. And I'm going to show you guys the playlist I've built. I'm going to put them in the description. I'm going to put the Chrome extension that I've used to build these playlists quickly in the description. This is not again a self promotion. I'm just giving you all the tools I've been using so that if you want to improve your Hebrew using the same methodology, you can go ahead and do that. So firstly, this is the Chrome extension. It's called multi select for YouTube. And I built two really big playlist of content on YouTube that is subtitled in Hebrew. Now the situation we have at the moment is that on the YouTube desktop user interface, in other words, if you open YouTube on your laptop or on your computer, there's going to be that auto translate button that is incredibly useful. Now, unfortunately, YouTube hasn't rolled out this feature in full on its smartphone apps. Yes. For instance, when I'm on my Android phone, if there's a video in English, I do subtitle in English, I do actually get an auto translate option. But if the captions are in Hebrew, that option is missing. So it's a case of they're rolling out this feature on mobile devices slowly. There is a workaround. It's an app called Z translate. I'll put that link in the description. I'm going to show you guys that in a second. And that's what I've been using in when I'm on my phone. But to be honest, it just works a lot better from the desktop, because you can simply bookmark your progress in a huge playlist full of videos. So let's go through all the tools real quick to show you guys what I figured out what works. This is the Chrome extension, as I mentioned. And if you want to create your own playlist of Hebrew videos, I'll show you guys how to do that. This basically puts these boxes, you know, in front of the videos. So instead of adding videos to a playlist one by one, you can add four eight 12 videos at a time, it just makes it way way more quick. There's no way I could have built playlist with 2000 videos without this multi select plugin. Now speaking of Oh, by the way, I'm getting very close to the 1000 mark here on YouTube. When I do get to that milestone, hopefully just in a few days, I am, as I mentioned, going to be doing a bit of reorganizing on my channel. These Hebrew videos are going to be probably on a separate channel or my Hebrew learning voyage. I will post an update when I've got that done. But it's on my to do list. When I get nine more subscribers to get over that 1000 milestone, which I'm really excited about. So in terms of the playlist, here are the ones I've built. Now this is one built on the content posted on YouTube by Khan Digital. As I've explained in other videos, Khan is Israel's public broadcaster. It's called, in English, the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation IPBC, but Khan is kind of its moniker. And for whatever reason on the Khan Digital channel, not on other channels, they add subtitles. And this opens a huge reservoir of content. So this is my playlist. There are 2362 videos. So all you need to do, I'm going to just open one video to show you guys how to how to use this. In case any of that wasn't clear, you open up the playlist or open up a video. I'm going to just pause it so I don't get like a copyright strike from this TV company. And then when you click on captions, you're going to see your Hebrew captions. Click on the setting icon, click on subtitles, and then go for this auto translate option. And boom, you can translate these captions from Hebrew captions to English. And now, even though nobody's actually added English captions to this video, I'm able to translate the captions in real time and use all this content to learn. So that's the one I actually really wanted to draw attention to. The other one I built is called Hebrew with Hebrew subtitles. Again, I'll put the link in the description. And it's kind of more varied. It's a bit of stuff I pulled in from Khan. It's a bit of stuff I pulled in from other channels. And by the way, another way to find content is to just Google a keyword, right? So if I Google, I'm just going to open up YouTube here. I'm going to put in Israel, you click on two filters, and then you click on two subtitles. And now you're only going to be finding content that actually is subtitled. Now, there's no way to filter on the language the subtitles are in. But this is all I've been doing for my videos is essentially thinking how can I find more content in Hebrew with subtitles and adding that to huge playlists. And then at night, I'm opening a bottle of wine, opening hummus, drinking a cup of coffee, whatever you like, sit in front of the TV, watch. And of course, if you want to do this really, really methodically, you'd probably be a good idea to have a notepad with you and just, you know, kind of pause the video whenever you encounter a new word, add that to a little notebook or something like that. But to be honest, there's so much content in the playlist I've built and the ones that anyone can build that you're probably going to get sort of repetition on the vocab just by watching a lot of it. So that's my method. I'm drawing, as I mentioned, most new videos from can those are available for me on YouTube, although I am accessing this from Israel. So if it's geo restricted, I don't know about it, and I don't know how to get around it, but there probably are ways. If you are learning Hebrew, I hope I know that I kind of packed a lot of info into this nine minutes of video. But I can say that as a Hebrew learner, as an Oleh Hadash, this method may seem unconventional, but it's really, really working for me. It's just the flip side of how a lot of Israelis learn English just by watching lots of films. And it's been easier for them to do that for a long time because a lot of stuff produced in English gets worldwide captions. And now, thanks to advances in YouTube's automatic translation of its captions, a whole world of Israeli content has opened up to Hebrew learners. And I think it's a great, it would be a great pity not to take advantage of it. Thank you guys for watching this video. Hope it was helpful. If you know of any other content in on the internet, whether in YouTube or elsewhere, that is has subtitles that can be translated. I'm all ears always looking for more stuff. But I can say after 200 watching 200 videos, my Hebrew has definitely improved and I can recommend this method. Thank you guys for watching. More videos coming to this YouTube channel shortly.