Re: Let's talk about langages (Advice/Help)

From: DeMaisonneuve (lucr_at_me.ca)
Date: 08/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 16:21:39 -0400

"Hatunen" <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote in message
news:90v6i0htjhppiueqg4mqlvokcou9ii73ke@4ax.com...
> On 17 Aug 2004 23:27:26 +0200, LEE Sau Dan
> <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>
> >>>>>> "Jan" == ?ystein <oystein@nettkjenning.com> writes:
> >
> > Jan> Another point is that it is easier to learn a language the
> > Jan> more you are exposed to that language. I think this is an
> > Jan> important explanation why people in The Scandianivian
> > Jan> countries and the Netherlands generally speaks better English
> > Jan> than in onter countries on the European continent. The use
> > Jan> subtitles instead of dubbing English speaking movies and tv
> > Jan> programs.
> >
> >Maybe, the English speakers should start consider adding English
> >subtitles to their English movies, so as to improve their capability
> >of spelling English correctly? :)
> >
> I've seen it done in movies where the characters had a strong
> regional accent.
>
> There is European TV channel (Euro5?)which was carried on the
> cable of the flat in Helsinki we used this summer. The channel is
> all-French speaking. But some French movies are shown with French
> subtitles(!). The spoken French was hard for me to follow but I
> was able to follow the subtitles fairly well.

On TV5, when you see subtitles, it is usually because the talking individual
has a strong accent and is hard to understand by francophones from other
territories. TV5 is international, it has contents from Europe, Canada,
Africa and anywhere there are Frenchs.

>
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