That they ' re Jehovah ' s Witnesses and I ' m not , so they don ' t talk to me . <| sep |> Depends on the movie ? I started intensively learning Chinese half a year ago , I completed the first 1000 sentences of glossika Mandarin . By now I can watch small children ' s cartoons . I was so amazed when I could understand everything when I watched ~~ Pepe ~~ Peppa the pig . It ' s for small kids so they are very explicit about vocabulary , like they go to a supermarket , then they find watermelons or something and say that word multiple times in the dialogue . As to real movies , I feel it differs widely . I watched recently and I could catch a lot without the subtitles , but I guess ease into it ? Glossika is itself very extensive , it takes about 612 months depending on your place , but it did wonders for both my listening and speaking because of how fast it is .