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| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5472 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 9 of 38 15 October 2010 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Anime is heavily dubbed (anything that gets to TV and Movie Theaters that is). Everything else is subtitled.
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| alexptrans Pentaglot Senior Member Israel Joined 6756 days ago 208 posts - 236 votes Speaks: English, Modern Hebrew, Russian*, French, Arabic (Written) Studies: Icelandic | Message 10 of 38 15 October 2010 at 10:10pm | IP Logged | ||
That seems to be the situation in France as well, at least as far as I know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ilcommunication Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6683 days ago 115 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 11 of 38 16 October 2010 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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In the US, old school kung-fu movies are almost always dubbed...it's a big part of the appeal for a lot of enthusiasts. Only in the last decade did they start to get subtitles instead (maybe because mainstream US audiences started taking Asian cinema more seriously at that point).
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| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6033 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 12 of 38 16 October 2010 at 11:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Czech people dub almost everything. The dubbing is of an extremely high quality.
Each actor is dubbed by a different person. The Czech person tries to open and close his mouth at the same time as the original actor. Not sure how else to describe this. It looks like the person is actually speaking Czech because the Czech you hear and the foreign actor's mouth appear to be in sync. Edited by John Smith on 16 October 2010 at 12:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5326 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 13 of 38 16 October 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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In the Netherlands children's films are dubbed and everything else is subtitled. When I was a kid cartoons on Cartoon Network were subtitled as well but then they switched to dubbing which I think is a shame. Dutch dubbings of Disney films are usually of great quality but television cartoons tend to use the same voices over and over again.
I'm curious to know how speakers of other languages are handled on news programmes in other countries. In the Netherlands they just speak their own language and they get subtitled but for instance when I watch American TV people seem to either speak broken English or they get dubbed over by generic voice-overs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5444 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 14 of 38 16 October 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Norway everything (fims, news, TV series etc.) is subtitled except films and cartoons aimed at children. The
dubbing is usually of decent quality, but some children's programmes suffer from low quality dubbing, with one single person reading what everybody says. Like in the Netherlands, the dubbing of Disney movies is usually excellent. Swedish materials, like Pippi Longstocking and Emil of Lönneberga, are not dubbed. Swedish and Danish speech is usually subtitled on TV. On the radio however, Swedes and Danes are never translated. If an English speaking person is being interviewed on the radio, a summary will be given in Norwegian afterwards. EDIT: Movie theatres often show both the dubbed version and the original version with subtitles if the film is aimed at both children and childish adults, such as Bee Movie and The Lion King. EDIT 2: There's a news programme in Sami language called Oððasat. It's a coproduction between the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian national broadcasters. If somebody is not speaking Sami, they are dubbed. On Norwegian TV Oððasat is subtitled in Norwegian, on Swedish TV in Swedish, and I guess, in Finnish on Finnish TV. By the way, a couple of days ago they showed a clip where the Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development, Erik Solheim, spoke English at a conference in New York. He was neither dubbed, nor subtitled. Why? Maybe because his English sounds funny. Edited by tractor on 16 October 2010 at 9:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6573 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 15 of 38 16 October 2010 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I love dubbing, by the way. It's awesome, and a good thing for learners. I watched a lot of American stuff dubbed into French when I was studying it, because the language tended to be simpler and clearer. Best is of course DVDs with multiple audio tracks.
EDIT: On the other hand, DVDs of Hong Kong movies sold in southern China are dubbed into Mandarin and have their original Cantonese audio removed. That's significantly less awesome. Edited by Ari on 16 October 2010 at 6:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lucas Pentaglot Groupie Switzerland Joined 5158 days ago 85 posts - 130 votes Speaks: French*, English, German, Italian, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 16 of 38 16 October 2010 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Switzerland doesn't dub: France, Germany and Italy does it for us!
:) But in theater you can choose between an undertitled "V.O" (version originale) and a dubbed "V.F" (version française). In order to save money, untertitle are in french and German, so they can be used everywhere. And in the Italian-speaking part? Good question... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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