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I really wish it was easier to find movies in other languages to help learning. I've been half-heartedly trying to learn French the past few years but it's dece

I really wish it was easier to find movies in other languages to help learning. I've been half-heartedly trying to learn French the past few years but it's deceptively hard to either find a decent streaming service, or to find torrents with French audio + subtitles. Strangely it was quite easy when I had a stab at Swedish a few years ago; a number of their TV channels have a free streaming service that you can access from anywhere.

qalmakka 9y ago
Maybe you may have more luck using legal services such as Netflix. I'm quite sure they have subtitles for most of the languages they support; at least, I'm sure they have them for English, German and Italian. Torrents are often a poor choice with regards to captions, because either you manage to find a source that ripped them from an source in sync with video (such as the DVD), or you have to resort to fan dubs or that kinds of sort.
- Nullabillity 9y ago
  For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles. Here in Sweden you're lucky if there are even the original English subtitles available for the thing you're trying to watch. I've even managed to find a few shows where they didn't even bother to allow disabling the subtitles!
  - Semaphor 9y ago
    > For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles. Same clusterfuck as with other copyright things. Different companies have the rights to the subtitles and it depends on what terms Netflix got. One of the reasons [0] I mentioned why piracy is still superior even for someone paying and wanting to pay. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360517
  - Lunatic666 9y ago
    They don’t. I’m living in Singapore, but have family in Germany and Thailand. If you want to have Thai subtitles in Singapore or Germany, you can create a User with Thai set as the UI language, then you also get offered audio and subtitles in Thai. It’s not documented and totally not intuitive, I only discovered that by accident, but it works very well.
hiram112 9y ago
I used Audible (or just download books on tape from other sources) and listen to it at about 80% speeds. It worked extremely well for German because there are a lot of novels I like and have read in English. Same in Spanish. The good thing about Audible or books on tape, is that you can read along with the exact same text, whereas movies with subtitles are often translated with completely different sentences in an attempt to convey similar meanings from the original language to the translated.
pbhjpbhj 9y ago
Almost everything I've looked at on Netflix (UK) seems to be available with either French audio or subs. Might be worth a look. Rick & Morty IIRC offered 6 language options.
- robotmay 9y ago
  Ooh I didn't know that, I'll give it a go!
Lunatic666 9y ago
Amazon Prime Video has all movies and series in English, German, French and a couple of more exotic languages. I think they have a 30 day trial, it might however be different in every country.

qalmakka 9y ago

Maybe you may have more luck using legal services such as Netflix. I'm quite sure they have subtitles for most of the languages they support; at least, I'm sure they have them for English, German and Italian. Torrents are often a poor choice with regards to captions, because either you manage to find a source that ripped them from an source in sync with video (such as the DVD), or you have to resort to fan dubs or that kinds of sort.

Nullabillity 9y ago
For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles. Here in Sweden you're lucky if there are even the original English subtitles available for the thing you're trying to watch. I've even managed to find a few shows where they didn't even bother to allow disabling the subtitles!
- Semaphor 9y ago
  > For some idiotic reason Netflix geofences their subtitles. Same clusterfuck as with other copyright things. Different companies have the rights to the subtitles and it depends on what terms Netflix got. One of the reasons [0] I mentioned why piracy is still superior even for someone paying and wanting to pay. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360517 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360517
- Lunatic666 9y ago
  They don’t. I’m living in Singapore, but have family in Germany and Thailand. If you want to have Thai subtitles in Singapore or Germany, you can create a User with Thai set as the UI language, then you also get offered audio and subtitles in Thai. It’s not documented and totally not intuitive, I only discovered that by accident, but it works very well.

hiram112 9y ago

I used Audible (or just download books on tape from other sources) and listen to it at about 80% speeds. It worked extremely well for German because there are a lot of novels I like and have read in English. Same in Spanish. The good thing about Audible or books on tape, is that you can read along with the exact same text, whereas movies with subtitles are often translated with completely different sentences in an attempt to convey similar meanings from the original language to the translated.

pbhjpbhj 9y ago

Almost everything I've looked at on Netflix (UK) seems to be available with either French audio or subs. Might be worth a look. Rick & Morty IIRC offered 6 language options.

robotmay 9y ago
Ooh I didn't know that, I'll give it a go!

Lunatic666 9y ago

Amazon Prime Video has all movies and series in English, German, French and a couple of more exotic languages. I think they have a 30 day trial, it might however be different in every country.