With the unveiling today of Google’s “Peanut Gallery” (which I’ll discuss in a moment), I thought it would make sense to create a new “The Best…” list sharing a few tools that let you create subtitles for silent movies. Well, not only silent movies. There are some tools that let you come up with subtitles for shows in various other languages, and language teachers can have students enjoy coming up with subtitles for them in the language they are speaking. These kinds of tasks are fun language-learning activities, and I’ve used them a lot with English Language Learners.

Here are a few:

 

 

“MEMR.TV” IS A FUN TOOL FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (& EVERYBODY ELSE)

I’d love to hear of other similar tools out there.