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I like listening to the original audio of foreign movies and it's partly how I learned English, and how I pick up random words from languages I can't really spe
by the_af 5y ago
I like listening to the original audio of foreign movies and it's partly how I learned English, and how I pick up random words from languages I can't really speak.
I also respect actors and actresses enough to appreciate their performance includes their original voices.
I'm a fast reader and subtitles are like a second nature to me, to the point I don't "remember" having read them (likewise I sometimes don't remember if I read a novel in English or Spanish unless a particular turn of phrase caught my attention).
About the only thing I agree with is that dubbing (barring some honorable exceptions) sucks. I did listen to a part of La Casa de Papel's English dub -- the horror!
In short: do not want this.
- chupchap 5y agoI dont understand Spanish or Portuguese, but I think a lot of emotion that is conveyed in the way the languages are spoken is lost in the dubbing. Reading the subtitles and just hearing the actors say the same in Spanish conveys it better for me.
- TT-392 5y agoI have got pretty serious dyslexia, and thus I have problems with reading subtitles fast enough. As a child this basically meant no subs for me. So I definitely see the value in dubs. These days I have gotten a bit faster at reading and I got things like more readable fonts to help me (also, some subtitle systems are just terrible, I often torrent stuff that is on netflix despite having an account because their subtitle system sucks). Yet, I am from the Netherlands, and here, with basically nothing except media for children being dubbed, I have gotten better at reading them and used to it. And honestly, despite the effort I have to go through, I totally agree. It is totally worth the extra effort. I'll always prefer the original language, no matter the quality of the dub. Language is just an important part of the culture of the original content.