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| mikeh71 Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4783 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 1 of 5 14 November 2011 at 3:17am | IP Logged | ||
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Which major world languages beside English has a rich media culture(movies, tv and music.)
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5037 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2 of 5 14 November 2011 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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French, certainly.
I've also rather enjoyed German cinema. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6585 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 3 of 5 14 November 2011 at 7:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm guessing Hindi, what with Bollywood and all.
Mandarin has lots and lots of movies and TV series, though high-quality ones aren't as common as one would like. Still, with that kind of quantity, there's plenty of quality if you look hard enough. Cantonese has some really really great movies. Hong Kong is the original Asian Hollywood and when it comes to action and comedy, it can't be beat, with a number of smaller, more artsy movies filling in the gaps. And martial arts? Well, Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan are Kongers. 'Nuff said. Also, they've got this weird inferiority complex which doesn't allow them to write books in their own language, but movie scripts are okay, so all the creative geniuses become script writers instead of authors. Korean movies are awesome. I've only seen a couple, but they've all been fantastic. I suspect that if you actually know the language, you'll find a lot of crap, but ... Korean movies are awesome. Dunno about Japanese. Can't say I've seen a lot of Jap flicks. They've got lots of cartoons? Probably Spanish maybe. So many people speak it; there's got to be a lot of great movies. Eh, I don't know. Great question, by the way. I've been thinking about it, too, and I think a good movie industry is something that will make me really consider learning a language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5418 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 4 of 5 15 November 2011 at 4:38am | IP Logged | ||
For films, I just so happen to have had made this chart illustrating the world's largest film industries by monetary value (excluding English):
I derived the figures by first taking the 2009 box office revenues of the twenty largest box office markets in 2009, and then multiplying them by the consecutive growth rates over the past four years, with the intended purpose of extrapolating to a reasonable projection for the near future (thus, it takes recent momentum into account): 
I then identified the weighted average share of the national box office comprised by domestic films over a nine-year span up till 2009 (the point being to extricate foreign films [like Hollywood films anywhere outside the U.S.] from being included in measuring domestic film industries: 
I then multiplied the above two figures to measure the "pure" domestic film industries: 
Finally, I consolidated on the basis of language: 
If you want to extricate the factor of currency valuation (which depreciates markets like China and India and appreciates markets like Japan and France), you could reconcile each language's (or country's) figure by its Consumer Price Index: 
(only selected languages shown) As for music, I'd guess the following languages in the top tier (excluding English, and in no order): - Japanese - Mandarin - Korean - Hindi - Spanish Followed by these: - French - Arabic - German (possibly) Cantonese used to be way up there for both cinema and music, but has sadly since slipped greatly. As for TV and radio, no clue. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6585 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 5 15 November 2011 at 7:16am | IP Logged | ||
Very true. Hong Kong cinema is still great, but the amount of movies produced has plummeted. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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