Lynn
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Post by Lynn on Mar 2, 2010 14:04:25 GMT -5
Hahaha! They actually showed us that commercial in class once! Lol! Here only tv shows for children who can't read yet are dubbed. As soon as you can read: learn English! Haha! It does work though!
They even sometimes use movies or tv shows as teaching material. Beats books any day!
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Post by janet on Mar 4, 2010 6:31:50 GMT -5
The funny ad reminded me that I worked for Berlitz a long time ago teaching English in Paris. They were'nt very good employers.
I also tried to teach French to English school children and English people are very spoilt. Everyone else in Europe knows some English - The Dutch and the Scandinavians are exeptional, but everyone else can get by. The English are dreadful at foreign languages. Older French people have terrible accents because of how they were taught, but all the younger French people I know speak much better English than English people of the same age speak French. I'd say that most French people under about 35 can make a reasonable stab at some English. Most English people of any age can't speak any other language than English.
I remember watching English programmes on Dutch TV , but never ER. I have seen French ER, or rather "Urgences" and thinking how strange it sounded dubbed. "French " Noah doesn't sound anything like English Noah... but how cute was Noah's terrible French in ER. I do hope his real French is a bit better though
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Post by claired80 on Mar 4, 2010 7:01:42 GMT -5
Yeah, the guy is actually much older than Noah, and it made Carter "looking" not so young at the beginning of "Urgences". The positive thing is that this guy dubs only Noah and did so since A Few Good Men... Not like many other actors who all get the same voice. And, he doesn't use his voice for commercials... which is really annoying. The guy who does George Clooney for instance was in a lot of 'medical' commercials, playing his Doug Ross card. With the little french he used on The Librarian, it doesn't sound much better ... But you can tell that he is trying really hard on the -R sound, to not sound american, both on ER and in the Librarian (though probably insisting a bit too much on the guttural aspect of the french R, but I guess that for an american audience, it makes things sound 'frencher'... )
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Post by Lynn on Mar 8, 2010 19:42:33 GMT -5
Aaaagh!! I'm so frustrated! Nobody responds to my wonderful Dutch thread... I made it so cool, with all the information to register, updates on ER on Dutch television, the new gallery and a link to win ER season 1 to 14 on DVD! I know the Dutch fans are out there! Why won't they respond... Hello..? I don't bite...
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Post by Claudia on Mar 9, 2010 0:07:24 GMT -5
Hey Lynn, your Dutch thread is great, so don't be sad! Somebody's gonna reply sooner or later. Maybe people are just a bit shy. Don't worry about it!
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Post by Raffy on Mar 9, 2010 1:56:35 GMT -5
Lynn, don't be sad! I also didn't have replies on my italian thread but myabe with the news series on air we'll be luckier!
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Post by darksparrow on Mar 9, 2010 2:00:05 GMT -5
give it time, Lynn!
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Post by darksparrow on Mar 9, 2010 12:50:59 GMT -5
New header is awesome, Raffy! Although I DO love that Alien Project picture, too. ;D
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Post by Raffy on Mar 9, 2010 13:00:19 GMT -5
Thank you, Anna! I also love the previous one and tried to find a way to use a slideshow of those two banners but I couldn't find a working code
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Lynn
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Post by Lynn on Mar 9, 2010 13:17:06 GMT -5
Hahaha, country boy! That's just brilliant!
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Post by Claudia on Mar 10, 2010 0:21:56 GMT -5
Ohh WOW, the new header is beautiful! Great job, Raffy! I couldn't decide which one I like better too - this one or the Alien project one.
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Post by claired80 on Mar 10, 2010 8:15:00 GMT -5
Awesome new header indeed Raffy!! ;D But like Claudia, I can't decide which I prefer... (the little plus about this new one is that it has Noah and only Noah ..., but the promo pic of invasion had a oooooh wahhh effect on me that the Cowboy and Indians don't have... )
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Post by Raffy on Mar 10, 2010 10:20:19 GMT -5
I was thinking that maybe next month we could open an "Header contest": everyone can make their header and we can pick just one with a poll
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Post by darksparrow on Mar 10, 2010 11:03:41 GMT -5
I love that idea... But I think it might be impossible to choose just one.
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Post by Raffy on May 3, 2010 3:35:42 GMT -5
Today I'm having trouble opening the board's page.....is it me or are we having the same problem?
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