SoggyTaco

Gabe! Big fan and kickstarter backer here, I've been using Anki and the FF technique to learn French and Spanish and have been absolutely blown away by how much I've learned.

I have one problem though: the transition between learning words, grammar, and pronunciation and actually understanding spoken French. I can read French fairly easily and can pronounce it well enough to confuse a few Parisians. However, even after watching Amélie a million times and running the pronunciation trainer on Anki until my ears bleed, spoken French sounds like a mumbled mess of vowels. I don't have this problem with Spanish at all really. Any tips on how to get from knowing to speaking French specifically?

Much more than Amélie, mostly Netflix originals (stranger things, narcos) with french dubs and no subtitles. Not sure if I've accumulated over 30 hours yet so maybe I just need to give it time.

Do dubs make a difference versus content made in the target language?