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For some reason, I thought every country subtitles movies/tv-shows that are not produced in their own language. When I moved abroad, to Spain, I found it amusi

For some reason, I thought every country subtitles movies/tv-shows that are not produced in their own language. When I moved abroad, to Spain, I found it amusing to play clips to movie fans in English and ask who is this? Based on the sound. Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio etc. - they didn't know any because the famous ones have even their personal voice doublants.

jacquesm 11y ago
Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too. The funny thing is that too can help you learn a language if you already know the program in your own language, but it doesn't really help expose 'the natives' to more languages.
- masklinn 11y ago
  > Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too. All of the large western european countries, basically all of western europe except for the nordics (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, possibly the Netherlands).
  - jacquesm 11y ago
    In the past only some kids shows were dubbed but even the cartoons for the most part had subtitles. Today it's a bit different.
  - junto 11y ago
    Germany dubs everything. Unless you invest in Sky, the German television broadcasters don't even bother broadcasting the original language as an alternative tone, which I assume over cable isn't a massive extra expense. Only Arté bothers to do so in both German and French. German home made programmes are also particularly dire. Their long running police drama series Tartort is their single saving grace.
    - nrr 11y ago
      Tatort (German for "the scene of the crime") is particularly interesting in that each one of ARD's regional broadcasters contributes some number of episodes to the pool. Considering that Germany is a very regional country, it's a good way to get a survey of accents and local word usage.
  - icebraining 11y ago
    Not here in Portugal - only shows for children are dubbed.
    - glitchdout 11y ago
      But only recently. I learned a lot of English just watching Cartoon Network (undubbed and unsubbed)!
- raverbashing 11y ago
  Yeah, TV shows are a specific area I guess Not so sure about Cinemas (in Berlin there is an English only movie theatre though)
pvaldes 11y ago
If you could be Harry Callahan, Darth Wader, Captain Kirk, Terminator, 007, Blad Runner's Roy Batty and The king lion's Mufasa, all in one lifetime, you might look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantino_Romero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantino_Romero Talking about interesting lives...
- pvaldes 11y ago
  (I wrote "blad" runner?, ouch)
  - jodrellblank 11y ago
    You also wrote Darth 'Wader' (clothes for walking in rivers, or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM).
    - pvaldes 11y ago
      Damned ánaquin escaigüalquer XDDD One good example of the troubles with english. Is a tiresome encode, decode, encode... all the time. And this is only popular culture. A much worst problem has been created when english weird rules overpower universal languages, like taxonomy. Lets take the maple genus for example: "Acer", named by a swedois from the latin "aciale". Should be pronounced as Linné intended /'azer/ but is changed to /ˈeɪsər/ instead, because english. This mean that a language created to be universal, is not universal anymore. Is tainted. For most people in the world there is not a clear rule to link "azer" with "eisa". Is broken unless you hear it and memorize it. Linné would not understand currently most of is own named genera.

jacquesm 11y ago

Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too. The funny thing is that too can help you learn a language if you already know the program in your own language, but it doesn't really help expose 'the natives' to more languages.

masklinn 11y ago
> Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too. All of the large western european countries, basically all of western europe except for the nordics (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, possibly the Netherlands).
- jacquesm 11y ago
  In the past only some kids shows were dubbed but even the cartoons for the most part had subtitles. Today it's a bit different.
- junto 11y ago
  Germany dubs everything. Unless you invest in Sky, the German television broadcasters don't even bother broadcasting the original language as an alternative tone, which I assume over cable isn't a massive extra expense. Only Arté bothers to do so in both German and French. German home made programmes are also particularly dire. Their long running police drama series Tartort is their single saving grace.
  - nrr 11y ago
    Tatort (German for "the scene of the crime") is particularly interesting in that each one of ARD's regional broadcasters contributes some number of episodes to the pool. Considering that Germany is a very regional country, it's a good way to get a survey of accents and local word usage.
- icebraining 11y ago
  Not here in Portugal - only shows for children are dubbed.
  - glitchdout 11y ago
    But only recently. I learned a lot of English just watching Cartoon Network (undubbed and unsubbed)!
raverbashing 11y ago
Yeah, TV shows are a specific area I guess Not so sure about Cinemas (in Berlin there is an English only movie theatre though)

pvaldes 11y ago

If you could be Harry Callahan, Darth Wader, Captain Kirk, Terminator, 007, Blad Runner's Roy Batty and The king lion's Mufasa, all in one lifetime, you might look like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantino_Romero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantino_Romero Talking about interesting lives...

pvaldes 11y ago
(I wrote "blad" runner?, ouch)
- jodrellblank 11y ago
  You also wrote Darth 'Wader' (clothes for walking in rivers, or this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM).
  - pvaldes 11y ago
    Damned ánaquin escaigüalquer XDDD One good example of the troubles with english. Is a tiresome encode, decode, encode... all the time. And this is only popular culture. A much worst problem has been created when english weird rules overpower universal languages, like taxonomy. Lets take the maple genus for example: "Acer", named by a swedois from the latin "aciale". Should be pronounced as Linné intended /'azer/ but is changed to /ˈeɪsər/ instead, because english. This mean that a language created to be universal, is not universal anymore. Is tainted. For most people in the world there is not a clear rule to link "azer" with "eisa". Is broken unless you hear it and memorize it. Linné would not understand currently most of is own named genera.