Can your 9/10 year old watch a subtitled film?

[NotQuiteUsual]

I'm trying to gauge this before I risk making myself look a twat! Me and my DD like to go to the cinema and watch anime films when they're on. She prefers them in Japanese, so that's what we watch. Her friend has expressed an interest to DD about coming next time. Which is great, because DD struggles socially and any chance to encourage friendships works for me. But the thing is DD is a very advanced reader and my eldest, so I've not got any idea if keeping up with subtitled films is realistic for her peers. It's not something I can ask without coming across as a right show off twat either is it?

So in a nutshell could your 9/10 year old manage subtitles films comfortably?

The dubbed Studio Ghibli are superb anyway. Not sure about anime.

We have subtitles on for any programme shown in school, right from reception up.

Some cope with it from the start and others just watch and listen, even if the programme is not in English or their language.

Obviously when older the children will pick up varying amounts of the text but often the moving images, tone of voices etc can fill in a lot of the gaps even if not getting all of the reading done.

As an adult, I can't follow subtitled films/TV shows. I can either read the text, and not see the picture, or watch the picture, and not see the text. I can't cope with both.

My autistic 8-year old learnt to read using subtitles. (Phonics wasn't cutting it.) We still keep them on the telly...