How Are You All So Good At English?! (1 Viewer)

[Slagathor]

English is the official second language in this country and I've lived in Britain for a while.

FACT: every tv-show, movie or whatever in Holland is subtitled. So Dutch people become familiar with the sounds and tones of the English language from the very moment they're born.

It helps a lot, countries where everything is dubbed traditionally have a population that doesn't speak English very well, or with a HUGE accent.

 

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[gray]

++ [ originally posted by Matto ] ++

It helps a lot, countries where everything is dubbed traditionally have a population that doesn't speak English very well, or with a HUGE accent.

So true, I remember when I went to visit my relo's in Korea, I had to watch movies like Jurassic Park in Korean...The Simpsons just gets totally ruined too. Oh the cheesy voices they have over there *rips hair out*

 

[Ali]

++ [ originally posted by gray ] ++
my only achievement English-wise (since i live in an english-speaking country) was scoring 94/100 for my university entrance exam

It could be worse Gray so quit mourning


Erik long time ... Good to see you Everything alright?
BTW do you speak English with an accent?

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by DaJuve ] ++
Erik long time ... Good to see you Everything alright?
BTW do you speak English with an accent?

A Leicester accent ... when I went to London people laughed at me
Works in Holland though - my English teachers love me


Nice to see you again too! How are you nowadays?

 

[Ali]

A dutchman with a Leicester accent ...

Am good just busy.

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by DaJuve ] ++
A dutchman with a Leicester accent ...

If I had a quid for everytime I heard that ....

Am good just busy.

Aye, I hear that!

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by Matto ] ++
FACT: every tv-show, movie or whatever in Holland is subtitled. So Dutch people become familiar with the sounds and tones of the English language from the very moment they're born.

Ditto for Norway. I DESPISE dubbing! :fero:

 

[Slagathor]

Me too! The voices are all wrong, the lips don't move according to what is said ... uuugh! Don't understand how ANYONE could watch dubbed series or movies!

 

[Martin]

Actually my idea of dubbing is far worse than that. It's one guy with a life sentence translating the dialogue while the original is running in the background at a low volume, obviously with no sense of purpose at all, the pitch of his voice doesn't change and it's like a really long yawn, it's like watching Liverpool.

 

[vitoria_Ally]

++ [ originally posted by DaJuve ] ++
Congratulations Vit :thumb: I needed a very long time to be comfortable with English.

Thanks Ali, but I have long way to feel comfortable with English
I still work on it

 

[Slagathor]

Oh you mean the kind of dubbing they do on CNN when a foreign head of state is making a statement and you hear this foreign national with a huge accent in English desperately trying to translate on the spot and, in the same time, speak louder than his subject..!

Terrible!

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by Matto ] ++
Oh you mean the kind of dubbing they do on CNN when a foreign head of state is making a statement and you hear this foreign national with a huge accent in English desperately trying to translate on the spot and, in the same time, speak louder than his subject..!

Terrible!

Yeah sorta like that.. it stinks. Only imagine having only that always.

 

[gray]

Hey, I'd imagine Asian languages sound worse when dubbed over English... Simpsons was bad enough in Korean, I'd hate to watch any sitcoms.. the jokes they'd ruin...

 

[Lilianna]

well,
i am born in greece where the school system as consern at least the foreigh language learning sucks....

so everyone goes to extra english lessons....

the first english....were mom-learned....
she is english teacher so she tought me some english...
then,5 years ago i went to extra lessons and since now i have taken the lower and now on desembre i am giving the advance ( i wish i'll pass!! )
i don't know if i know english enough but i am trying..!!!!

 

[vitoria_Ally]

++ [ originally posted by Alex ] ++
Actually my idea of dubbing is far worse than that. It's one guy with a life sentence translating the dialogue while the original is running in the background at a low volume, obviously with no sense of purpose at all, the pitch of his voice doesn't change and it's like a really long yawn, it's like watching Liverpool.

We have almost all movies, programms with that
That's why I cant learn from them :groan:

But this is not called "dubbing", it's a movie with reader, just like that

And I hate dubbing so much :fero: that I prefer movie with reader to dubbing.

 

[Martin]

++ [ originally posted by vitoria_Ally ] ++
We have almost all movies, programms with that
That's why I cant learn from them :groan:

But this is not called "dubbing", it's a movie with reader, just like that

And I hate dubbing so much :fero: that I prefer movie with reader to dubbing.

That's what I was talking about

 

[gray]

++ [ originally posted by vitoria_Ally ] ++

We have almost all movies, programms with that
That's why I cant learn from them :groan:

But this is not called "dubbing", it's a movie with reader, just like that

And I hate dubbing so much :fero: that I prefer movie with reader to dubbing.

isn't that what he meant?

 

[vitoria_Ally]

++ [ originally posted by Matto ] ++
Oh you mean the kind of dubbing they do on CNN when a foreign head of state is making a statement and you hear this foreign national with a huge accent in English desperately trying to translate on the spot and, in the same time, speak louder than his subject..!

Terrible!

It's not quite like this, cause here: the Polish text is prepared earlier, so there is no live desperate translation.
It's just Polish, and in the background: foreign language.
Someone who is used to that, completely dont hear the background.

 

[gray]

This reminds me of the teletext function on my tv. It's useful a lot of the time when you wanna hear what's going on and you've got a really noisy family. Sometimes, though, when they're trying to write the captions live (on the news, for example) you can just picture the poor interns typing away at their little computers, not being able to keep up with the newsreaders and failing to type every second word :LOL: it's so ridiculous...

 

[Slagathor]

++ [ originally posted by vitoria_Ally ] ++
It's not quite like this, cause here: the Polish text is prepared earlier, so there is no live desperate translation.
It's just Polish, and in the background: foreign language.
Someone who is used to that, completely dont hear the background.

Obviously it's not done live, duh Effect is the same though - foreign language on the background, two languages through one another ... yuck!