The article discusses a study which investigated whether subtitles, which provide lexical information, support perceptual learning about foreign speech. As explained, subtitles indicate which words are being spoken, which could improve lexically-guided learning about foreign speech sounds. As part of the study, Dutch participants were asked to watch videos containing unfamiliar regionally-accented English, with or without subtitles. Both English and Dutch subtitles were used which made it possible to compare the effects of subtitles in the language spoken in the videos with the effects of subtitles in the observers' native language.