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| Spinchäeb Ape Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4455 days ago 146 posts - 180 votes  Speaks: English*, German | Message 1 of 5 15 January 2013 at 12:32pm | IP Logged |
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Does anyone know if Amazon.fr will accept an order for a DVD from the US? Or are they going to bug me with, "Sorry, you're not in our region"? It's obviously a good source of French language movies. It used to be that the stupid region restrictions on DVDs would prevent them from playing in the US, but now there's technology to get around that easily.
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| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4509 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 2 of 5 15 January 2013 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
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It works. For region case, EU and non-EU distinction just effects the cost of shipment.
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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7129 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 3 of 5 15 January 2013 at 2:43pm | IP Logged |
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I live in the US and order frequently from Amazon.fr, Amazon.de, and Amazon.ca, and have never had any problems, other than the higher postage fees for shipments from Europe.
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| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7117 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 4 of 5 15 January 2013 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Also, don't forget that deastore.com has free shipping and can supply books (and DVDs)
in French, Italian, German, and Spanish. The thing is: if it is in a language other than Italian, they order the book from the source country and this usually takes 15 days (ignore what their website says--its always at least 15 days) and then it can take from a week to four weeks to arrive at an address in the United States. I use them a lot because 1) I'm not in a hurry and 2) FREE shipping. Bookdepository.com also offers some books in French and German and they too have free shipping. deastore.com bookdepository.com 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Spinchäeb Ape Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4455 days ago 146 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, German | Message 5 of 5 16 January 2013 at 12:38am | IP Logged |
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Thanks for all the help, everyone. I find it makes a big, big difference to watch movies in the language I'm learning. I tried to get French language channels from DirectTV, but they weren't available. I was surprised since I'm not that far from Canada (Idaho).
Here's a film I'm thinking of ordering from deastore.com: http://www.deastore.com/dvd/verita-la-henry-georges-clouzot/ 8023562001942.html Under language it says, "Italian French." I take that to mean it has two soundtracks, one in Italian and the other in French. Correct? It also doesn't say if there are English subtitles. If there aren't, those can usually be found online, but it's a little bit of a crap shoot if they're accurate or in sync. My French isn't good enough yet to go without subtitles. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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