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From: Chris Croughton <chris@keristor.net>
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Subject: Re: NEWBIE - MOVIE
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:08:55 +0100
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:29:06 +0200, Stephan Mann
<groups@stephan-mann.de> wrote:
> On 2006-07-28 18:17:03, Vanessa Berni wrote:
>> Can you suggest me movies easier to understand?!
>
> As Chris said, British English is much easier to understand. If you like
> Science Fiction, I'd like to suggest "Doctor Who", which is quite an
> interesting series and, in my opinion, very easy to understand.
I don't know that BrEnglish is intrinsically easier to understand than
AmEnglish (I'm sure Americans would say the reverse!). But the British
'formal' use of the language (news broadcasts and the like, especially
those intended for children) is still more standardised than the
American versions from what I've seen and heard.
> As for american movies, it's all about training. I'm watching nearly all
> movies in english now for five years and still don't understand
> everything. At the beginning, I had to watch them several times until I
> understood them, but that gets better very quickly.
I fnd that with modern movies in general, they seem to go for fast pace
and lots of effects rather than dialog. My impression is that older
movies (both American and British) used more dialogue and fewer
colloquialisms and as a result are easier ti understand for people less
familiar with the language.
Try, for example, the "Carry On" comedies, or the Bob Hope "Road..."
ones, the dialogue seems slower and more precisely pronounced (not as
slurred as in modern movies), and far more of the humour is in the
dialogue than in the effects. The Sean Connery and Roger Moore James
Bond movies as well.
Chris C
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