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Dumpshock Forums _ General Gaming _ The intro to Jericho in French

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jan 14 2009, 02:30 AM

Have any of you listened to the French-language version of the narrator intro to Jericho? I think it sounds hilarious.

Also, I feel that I can understand it almost 100%.

I have to ask myself...how is it that I can understand narration about demon hunters and alternative dimensions or what have you but at the same time when I write stuff in French on DSF about relatively mundane topics sometimes it seems my usage is a bit off?

Posted by: Blade Jan 14 2009, 09:58 AM

It's far easier to read/understand than write/speak a foreign language. Reading will help you get used to the spelling, grammar and usage up to a point, but if you want to really be able to speak or write correctly, you'll need to you them yourself.

It's a bit like when you see someone do something and then try to do it yourself. Even if you've spent a lot of time studying the moves, you end up wondering how it's actually done.

Posted by: Backgammon Jan 14 2009, 11:33 PM

Yeah, what Blade said. It's WAAY easier to read or listen someone else's foreign language than to then try to use it yourself. I've learned a bit of portuguese to go along my capoeira. I can read surprisingly long articles, and understand someone talking a little. I CANNOT make coherent sentences.

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Jan 15 2009, 12:22 AM

I should go to France and walk around on the street reciting the French-language intro to Jericho to get practice parsing sentences.

Posted by: Blade Jan 15 2009, 09:53 AM

Anyway, even if French dubbing isn't the worse there is, there are a lot of bad dubbing out there. And I think that the systematic dubbing of movies and TV series is one of the reasons why a lot French can't speak English (or barely, with that terrible accent).