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Re:France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decl... by buckminster on Thursday December 05, 2019 @05:44PM (#21717509)
All my TV watching is on Freeview and I haven't seen anything dubbed in years. Where do you find dubbed media?

I agree that language teaching is terrible here though. The period you describe was particularly bad. The teaching of formal English grammar had become unfashionable but foreign languages continued to be taught using grammar concepts that nobody now understood in English. It was completely absurd.

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Re:France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decl... by jackjeff on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:28PM (#21717813)
There is a lot of foreign series and movies on BBC4. Lots of Nordic noir crime stuff. There are also many French shows: Engrenage/Spiral season 7 has just finished.

Much easier to catch these on iPlayer than freeview.

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