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| 1qaz2wsx Diglot Groupie Greece Joined 5183 days ago 98 posts - 124 votes  Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Albanian | Message 1 of 15 21 May 2010 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Watching foreign movies and reading subtitles in the same language simultaneously is a very good way to develop listening comprehension.The problem is that such films are hard to come by over the internet.Any resources?
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| luhmann Senior Member Brazil Joined 5143 days ago 156 posts - 271 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: Mandarin, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Arabic (classical) | Message 2 of 15 21 May 2010 at 2:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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You may be able to find subtitles on the film's original language on subtitles sites, such as opensubtitles.org .
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| ember Triglot Groupie CyprusRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5213 days ago 63 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, German Studies: Spanish, French, Greek, Polish | Message 3 of 15 21 May 2010 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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For the two languages in your profile: Russian movies and Russian subs for Hollywood movies, Movies and TV in English (this one has subs for most movies/tv shows in a variety of languages, which I find extremely useful)
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| 1qaz2wsx Diglot Groupie Greece Joined 5183 days ago 98 posts - 124 votes Speaks: Greek*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Albanian | Message 4 of 15 21 May 2010 at 5:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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This thread is not about translation.The movie and the subtitles need to be in the same language.Russian movie,russian subtitles.English movie,english subtitles.
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| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6282 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 5 of 15 21 May 2010 at 7:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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What's infuriating is when you get a DVD with, say, a Spanish dub and Spanish subtitles... and they're two completely different translations. I'd be watching The Simpsons in Spanish if it weren't for this...
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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5479 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 6 of 15 21 May 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
Often they have to be different translations for practical reasons. I know a woman who does subtitles for Czech movies, and she said it is much harder than dubbing because of the limits on screen space for the subtitles and the fact that many people read slowly so would soon fall behind pace of the spoken word. Her skill, then, is to take a long spoken sentence and compact it into an equivalent written one with the non-essentials stripped away. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6055 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 15 21 May 2010 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have found a lot of DVDs just from my ordinary collection that have pretty good
subtitles in a target language. Not necessarily word by word, but quite good nonetheless. Following are the DVDs I have tried and found quite good: -Charmed (Spanish & Italian) -Stargate Ark of Truth (Spanish & Italian) -Harry Potter (German, Italian & Spanish) I also tried Bewitched in German and Spanish, but that wasn't very good in terms of subtitles. Very different from the dialogue. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6282 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 8 of 15 22 May 2010 at 4:48am | IP Logged | ||
I don't think it's necessary for The Simpsons in Spanish, though. I've watched TV in Spanish with closed captioning that almost always exactly matched the spoken dialogue; it would only occasionally be different, and the similarity was usually enough to catch what was actually said. I also usually had no problem reading it quickly enough even though I'm far from native level in Spanish; I can only imagine a native speaker would have no trouble with it. I think the most likely reason The Simpsons had two different translations is because, when you're dubbing dialogue, you need to match the lip movements, which often means sacrificing an ideal translation. It could also happen because the subtitles and dubbing might have previously been done by different groups (e.g., dubbing for one country and subtitling for a different country, which will likely be done by different agencies). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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