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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by jacquesm on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:19AM (#10641443)
Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too.

The funny thing is that too can help you learn a language if you already know the program in your own language, but it doesn't really help expose 'the natives' to more languages.

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by masklinn on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:50AM (#10641539)
> Germany is well known for dubbing their TV shows, many other countries do this too.

All of the large western european countries, basically all of western europe except for the nordics (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, possibly the Netherlands).

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by junto on Saturday November 28, 2015 @12:04PM (#10641599)
Germany dubs everything. Unless you invest in Sky, the German television broadcasters don't even bother broadcasting the original language as an alternative tone, which I assume over cable isn't a massive extra expense. Only Arté bothers to do so in both German and French.

German home made programmes are also particularly dire. Their long running police drama series Tartort is their single saving grace.

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by nrr on Saturday November 28, 2015 @03:08PM (#10642225)
Tatort (German for "the scene of the crime") is particularly interesting in that each one of ARD's regional broadcasters contributes some number of episodes to the pool. Considering that Germany is a very regional country, it's a good way to get a survey of accents and local word usage.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by jacquesm on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:59AM (#10641578)
In the past only some kids shows were dubbed but even the cartoons for the most part had subtitles. Today it's a bit different.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by icebraining on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:17PM (#10641845)
Not here in Portugal - only shows for children are dubbed.
Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by glitchdout on Sunday November 29, 2015 @09:11AM (#10644596)
But only recently.

I learned a lot of English just watching Cartoon Network (undubbed and unsubbed)!

Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by raverbashing on Saturday November 28, 2015 @11:54AM (#10641557)
Yeah, TV shows are a specific area I guess

Not so sure about Cinemas (in Berlin there is an English only movie theatre though)