Do You Watch Movies In Languages Other Than Your Own

Bonsoir, Madame, Comment allez-vous, et comment ça va les chats? Uh, that's Good Evening, how are you and how are your cats?"

The only part I understood was Bonsoir, Madame only because my dad used to say that to me when I was a child. I'm doing great. As for my kids..wellllll, they finally decided to go take a nap somewhere after pestering me for treats the last hr. They wanted the whole container instead of the 5 pieces they each get at a time. Tigger has been trying to get on here all day to talk to pyewacket again. lol Every time I get out of my chair, I come back to find him sitting in it with paws on the keyboard looking at the screen.

Well my Kissy is STILL sleeping in Pyewacket's private bed, annoying him no end, and Kissy is snoring a storm here....My I think Tigger is now addicted to talking on the computer now--do you think we both started something here with our furbabies?

Oh yes. I finally got it on tape last year. It is great, Have you seen the movies Red, Blue, and White?

Alas nope, didn't see Red, Blue and White...good???

I try to translate the French films too...ever see "Diva" great intriguing movie

okay look at it this way, american english is not the same as British english, spellings are different words are different, you baby where a diaper, theirs where a nappy. You go to the bathroom, they go to the loo etc, It is the same with quebec french and French from France, only quebec french is called jouelle, which is a mixture of english and french. And the are words that are different as well.

That's odd...I say that, as I notice all DVD movies that have French Audio options say it's in Quebec French rather than French from France yet I've never really noticed any different when I listen to French films from France itself--I remember a funny story my French teacher in college told me...you see most people tend to think the French a bit snobby especially if you don't speak french one hundred percent accurate...well my teacher (who WAS from France) said that's really only true with Parisians as they tend to think they are almost a country unto themselves and are kind of perfectionistic about their language, yet non-Parisian French couldn't care less and will help a person who is non-French to speak it

Yes I realize in a way how true that is...just like there are different dialects of Spanish...my mother for instance learned Castilian Spanish, while I learned "regular" or South American type Spanish...couldn't understand a darn word my mother was saying to me. LOL Oh, I used to know someone who was part Creole French...their french is entirely different too

good for him and proud that he did now if more peopel would do that we would have more spanish people talking English

Subtitles can be annoying, but think it is a good way to learn another language--my Spanish speaking grandfather learned English solely by listening to English on the radio..and in that case no subtitles...hehee

Yes it's fun to be able to pick up a language just by listening to movies in that language--my grandfather learned English just by listening to the TV in English..he was Spanish speaking

Wow pye. Glad to hear that about your grandfather. I wish i could watch spanish movie and learn Spanish .

Oh yes I LOVE that movie and even have the book (in English)---all those recipes she fixes in the movie are in the book as well...and sound heavenly

ut-oh... I must confess... as you might have noticed.. this is one of the RARE times I didn't read the entire discussion before responding.. otherwise I would have noticed BEFORE I responded that we have a movie favorite in common. I apologize.. It is a great movie. I have not read the book. I will have to look for it.

LOL--no problem...hope you do get the book...it's great

Ich bin sehr gut, bedanke mich bei Ihnen, meinem Freund. Wie geht es Ihnen? The problem at school was we learned all about home, and school, like, I get up and brush my teeth, shower and have breakfast. Then I go to school. Open the window, shut the window, here is a pen... all that stuff. It doesn't help one little iota when you go to Germany!

Wie scheon (no umlaut on my typewriter)

Guten Tag...Wie geht es Ihnen? Hehe..I studied a bit of German too many years ago myself

I sure wish I still had cable as that is how I was able to watch a lot of foreign films....they used to have a French film festival every Friday night on one channel...another French film that is great is "Diva"--ever see that? I have that taped

no, i have not watched it and i hope to catch it in cable.

Thanks for the reminder! I'd never seen all of "Das Boot"..must keep an eye out for it.. I'd recommend "Delicatessen" if you liked Amelie..

One movie I wanted to watch was one of the classic German films Das Boot--unfortunately it was a dubbed version in English so just didn't sound right --so wound up not watching the whole thing

yup, most are lousy, forgettable movies, but only a few are really good ones. it really depends on your taste though, if you're a filipino, its either you like them in general or not. coz movies and soap operas here are geared towards the majority masses which have cheesy taste,(sorry) specifically the lower C, D and E class. and ive noticed that since we were colonized by spain for like 300 years, we kinda "inherited" as well the way they act! i was surfing channels when i came across a mexican telenovela starring thalia (rosalinda). i watched for a little while and noticed the similarites regarding the way the spanish/latin actor acts and the way filipinos act. its dragging, excessively melodramatic, and the story can be slow paced. they are also very fond of this scene where the actors just look into the sky and emote/reminisce about the past for a couple of dragging minutes! there are alot of similar "non-dialogue" scenes that are tedious to watch. i never see those in hollywood flicks. the only slow paced hollywood movie that i watched was "meet joe black" starring brad pitt and anthony hopkins , and it was a great film although i did not like the ending, yes, its slow paced , but its not boring or melodramatic. i dunno what is considered as "cheesy" there in the states, but in here, filipino movies, well, almost all of them, in my opinion, are "cheesy".

OMG--you mean filipino movies are that bad? LOL---I've never watched any so can't really judge

One year our class performed an entire play speaking only Spanish because the professor believed in total immersion. It was great fun and I played a character by the name of Salome. He even planned to take us on a trip to Mexico but the stuffy school board would not approve it at the last minute.

It's funny in a way....I actually studied more Spanish than French, but I'm the opposite of you..I remember more French! Long story but think I developed a mental block about Spanish..LOL...When in school my mother studied Spanish, but for some reason they taught her Castillian Spanish...the lispy kind?? Well then when I was learning I would try to speak Spanish to my mother but she would constantly correct me like crazy with the Castillian dialect...and half the time I couldn't understand her! She kept telling me "Abrir la boca" Open your mouth to enunciate..she's telling me this while speaking the lispy Spanish..LOL..Yeesh. So maybe since I didn't have anyone "correct" my pronunciation of French, I enjoyed it better...hehee

Children of Heaven must be really good if it won an international award...hope to see it sometime

Check IMDb for "Bacheha-Ye aseman", I forgot to mention, my kids are in preschool so you'll have an idea how simple the story is.

Yes isn't Like Water For Chocolate great? The book is good....thankfully translated into English...the book includes some of the recipes the woman makes in it

Yes, I really liked the book too.

It certainly helps to have the subtitles for foreign movies but nice to hear the original language

Which languages do you listen too?

there normally in chineese,Japanese or freanch.

I really do enjoy watching movies in another language than my own...gives one a sense of another culture

It really is fun to watch movies other than in ones own language and is a great opportunity to learn the different language as well right?

Sometimes one can make out what is going on in a movie without subtitles and yes it is fun to do

I think next time I get a chance would love to watch Korean and Japanese movies, never done that yet