the anglophone mind cannot comprehend subtitles.
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Haha.
I’m used to subs since I was a kid, but felt this when I went to watch Dune with my brother in a Finnish theatre.
A large portion of the movie already has English subs for the Fremen language. In addition to those, there was also Finnish and Swedish subtitles.
And while my Swedish is the poorest, I kept reading them occasionally as well, as my natural tendency for learning just couldn’t help it.
So hearing Fremen, reading English, Finnish and Swedish. Eyes were kinda like that, trying to follow the actors as well.
In addition to those, there was also Finnish and Swedish subtitles.
Hold up - they run two simultaneous subtitle tracks at a single screening of a movie?
That’s wild.
Yeah you usually see English and local language subs outside the US.
I’m outside the U.S, but I’ve never been to a screening with multiple language subtitles in a single screening - usually what I’ve seen is that you can go to different screenings subtitled in different languages, but never two languages at the same time.
For movies, sure. But not for TV broadcasts, although with digital TV the situation is a bit different.
In the movies you can’t choose the subtitle track, and Finland is officially bilingual, and especially so in my city (which used to be the capital when Sweden ruled).
Because of the Freeman language, there was one spoken language and three written ones at the same time. And only two of those languages were even close to each other (Swedish and English)
Where I live we have our local language subs and then Russian subs on English movies.
Same here. French and Dutch ones under the other… Normal tbh.
Yup.
If you count the English during the Fremen bits, then three.
Finland is bilingual officially, and my city is a bilingual city. All the road signs and well, everything you can really think of, official forms, ingredients lists on products, restaurant menus, websites, everything, is bilingual. Or rather usually trilingual, since English is there for those who don’t speak Swedish or Finnish.
And in public transport, you’ll also get directions on the screens in addition at least Arabic and Russian, and, uhm I’m sure there was at least one more I’m missing. Not Saame though, as I live in the far South of Finland and it’s uncommon here.
Not all the time though, a lot of official things aren’t in Swedish or English. As someone who speaks much better Swedish than Finnish it’s hilarious that the native language listed in my medical file is Finnish with no chance of ever changing it (there just isn’t any other option). And this is in one of the top 3 cities.
Name some official thing in Turku which isn’t bilingual?
All kela forms are bilingual as well.
Also, you can definitely change your native language. My former roommate had his set to Swedish because his mother is Swedish-Finnish, but he barely speaks a whole sentence of Swedish. He only changed it when he was around 22. Up until then all official papers he got were in Swedish.
Maybe you’re talking about Tampere, it’s not as bilingual as the capital area and especially Turku. And I definitely believe that you’re not able to change your language, but legally, you should be able to. I just know local health services just don’t give a shit about that.
Yep, Tampere :) never been to Turku but I’ve been meaning to.
Fremen
“Come On Brother, It’s A Fake Language”
- Denis Villeneuve
Sounds like a skill issue to me
A meme where OP admits not being able to read fast. Genius! Git gud!
You don’t even have to read fast. For obvious reasons, subtitles move at the speed of speech, which is much slower than most people read…
It’s all a matter of practice. I practiced with thousands of episodes of anime in my youth. Which also taught me the English language better than my school did.
Whenever someone says they don’t like subtitles I just assume they can’t read goodly
You’ll have to speak up I’m wearing a towel.
turn the music down, I’m trying to see
Does this mean that this hard-of-hearing girl is more talented than those that can’t do both? It feels good to think so haha. The only thing I hate is when the subtitle goes prematurely and ruins jokes.
There are some shows and movies that get it just right. For movies, i like how Time Crimes took care of the subtitles. It’s an awesome movie about time travel.
This is what it’s like watching Shogun.
Yeah know where i can get some english subtitles for it ?
Shogun is also a battle with the subtitles briefly flashing on screen or not showing up all together. So many rewinds and closing and opening the disney plus app to get them to pop up properly during a scene.
My friends have different tv’s and devices and all have similar issues.
Brilliant show, disney plus a terrible app.
I watch on Hulu. It seems to work well.
