Re: French native speakers and foreign languages

"Joachim" == Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Joachim> Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>>>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Pense <snob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
Joachim> Members of small language communities often seem to know
Joachim> many languages and show ability to learn foreign
Joachim> languages quickly - which is not exactly surprising. I
Joachim> have similar experiences with people from Hungary,
Joachim> Czechia, Finland.
>> Yeah. Young Finns speak English excellently. They can even
>> watch Hollywood movies on TV *in English*. (My Finnish friend
>> told me that the TV stations once attempted to show some movies
>> *dubbed* in Finnish. The audience were disappointed. They'd
>> rather have those movies in the original language. Even those
>> older Finns who can't understand English prefer to have the
>> movies shown in English, accompanied with Finnish subtitles.
>> The dubbing certainly sucks!)

Joachim> Maybe the custom to send foreign movies with subtitles
Joachim> rather than dubbed contributes to the language abilities
Joachim> of these people.

I do think so! At least, the younger generation are already used to
hearing English speech sounds from a very young age. So, they don't
find the English sounds strange, and they can easily immitate those
sounds accurately.


Joachim> I would love it if dubbing was banned over here - it's
Joachim> not only the language training aspect, it's a question of
Joachim> attitude towards a work of art.

But the dubbing into German does increase German-learning
opportunities to me. It's just disappointing that bi-lingual TV
broadcast is not popular in German, not even in Baden, where it
borders France (and Switzerland). My TV set did have a button for
switching language, and it only worked when I was watching ARTe (a
bilingual German-French satellite channel concentrating in culture
programmes). The infrastructure is there, but is underutilized.


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