Help! Can you write captions in your language for our ESL lesson videos?

This video is a request for help. If you'd like to help us help the world learn English

and also help people who are deaf or hard of hearing, then this video is for you

First a quick vocabulary quiz. You know when you go to see a foreign film at the cinema...

You mean the movies... Yeah and they print the words the people are

saying in your language at the bottom of the screen. What are those words called?

Subtitles. Yeah. OK next question. What about if the movie

was recorded in English, and then they recorded actors saying the words in your language?

That often happens with kids movies. Yes. Let's demonstrate it, Jay. OK, imagine I'm the actor

Hello and welcome to our home in Philadelphia.

Bonjour. Bienvenue à chez nous à Philadelphie. Do you think it worked? Yeah, I think so.

Sometimes dubbing works and sometimes it doesn't.

That's what it's called - dubbing. Yeah. When a movie is dubbed, the original audio

is replaced with your language. OK so there are subtitles and there's dubbing. What about

closed captions? What are they? Aren't they the same as subtitles?

Well nearly, but they can contain extra information like a bird flies into the shot or there's

an explosion or a big spider falls from the ceiling.

OK. Now, under this video, there's a button labelled cc. It stands for closed captions

and when you turn it on and off you'll find English subtitles.

Try it now, if you haven't tried it already - click cc. It's easy, huh?

But there's something else about captions that not many people know, and it's very cool.

YouTube can deliver captions in different languages. If you're understanding this video,

I'm guessing your English is pretty good. But there are lots of English learners who

need more help, more support. Sometimes they don't fully understand the

captions in English. They need a translation in their own language, so they can check things

- make sure they've understood. So here's our request. Can you translate the

captions in any of our lesson videos into your language?

If so we would really appreciate it. It helps us share our videos around the world which

helps our channel grow, and it helps our viewers who need a bit more help and support with

their English. Here's how it works. I write captions - English

captions - for all our video lessons. I time all the speech so the captions appear at the

correct time, so you don't need to worry about that. What you'd need to do is type in a translation

for each line. There's an autotranslate button that can speed

things up. It uses Google translate so you'll need to review it and fix things and then

you click submit for review. I'll put a link to a YouTube tutorial video

about how to do it in the description below, but it looks very straightforward.

So check out the tutorial and play with it, and tell us in the comments if you have any

problems. And there's one more thing I want to tell

you about. Language learners aren't the only people who need captions. There are 642 million

people in the world who are deaf or hard of hearing. One of those 642 million people is

the hugely talented Rikki Poynter. She's one of the friends that I made at YouTube NextUp and

she's the person who taught me about captions. She makes deaf education videos and she needs

people to caption her videos in other languages too. I'll put a link to Rikki's channel in

the description below You'e gotta check it out. She is amazing.

So thank you all very much for watching. We'll be back with a regular lesson next week.

See you then. Bye!