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> no way to turn off captions for some of their shows There are all sorts of inconsistencies with subtitles and dubbing. For example, suppose a show has option
by alister 8y ago
> no way to turn off captions for some of their shows
There are all sorts of inconsistencies with subtitles and dubbing. For example, suppose a show has options for 5 languages, but not Portuguese. If you switch your profile to Portuguese (i.e., by logging to the Netflix website and selecting Portuguese as your main language), then lo and behold Portuguese appears as a choice for subtitles and audio for many shows where it wasn't offered before.
Another irritation when trying to learn a foreign language is that foreign subtitles and the foreign audio often don't match. They are both correct translations, but it's as if they were translated by entirely different people. Maybe Netflix gets the subtitling done by one agency, and then later, if there's enough demand for the show, they get dubbing done by another agency (but don't update the subtitles to match the new translation).
Yet another oddity is that, on rare occasion, they will take away a language choice they offered for a show. A show might have, say, Polish as a audio option, but the next day it's gone. Completely puzzling.
- baddox 8y agoEnglish subtitles often don’t match the spoken dialogue for shows in English either. They are often simplified, probably for space and time constraints. I assume that the primary intended audience is the hearing impaired, not language learners.
- learnstats2 8y ago>Another irritation when trying to learn a foreign language is that foreign subtitles and the foreign audio often don't match. This is industry standard, not specific to Netflix: - subs are generally direct translations of the script/transcript - dubs are often done by mouth-movement matching to make it look right I would agree that the language tools on Netflix are unnecessarily bad.