I grew up with Dutch subs and later English subs on the beeb (you could use teletext for that back in the day – maybe you still can?) in my teens. Then I watche

I grew up with Dutch subs and later English subs on the beeb (you could use teletext for that back in the day – maybe you still can?) in my teens. Then I watched stuff without subs for years just fine; I managed to watch Shameless without subs years ago (which was a bit hard at times; stuff didn't commonly come with subs back then). I turned on subs for The Expanse as the belter dialect was difficult to follow at times, and I've used it regularly ever since. It just makes things a tad easier; no more "wait, what did he say? ah well, whatever" At times it also makes things a bit easier to skip ahead when things aren't all that interesting.