These days I sometimes even find myself watching for instance a French DVD with English subtitling, which is weird because in my head I translate both the French and the English to Dutch (but my French isn’t good enough to completely follow the film without translations).

In English I prefer captioning ’cause it really helps in understanding the English, whilst subs distract because I would not always use that translation (and indeed, some subs are very low-quality). I wish everything had captioning, for the people who can’t hear well *and* for the people who try to learn the language. It would make translating the subs easier too, wouldn’t it?

A few years ago one of the Dutch newspapers actually had a competition in summer, for people who always commented upon the quality of the subs. Everybody could send in their translation of a particular scene (new one every week) and the best one could win a little price. That showed a lot of people that it is harder than you think to properly translate, even if you speak the languages involved well.

those aren’t comments….but facts…privileged to have access as I have been in this industry for a decade…

lets not hijack the Guys blog with our post/comments/articles

P.S: all the best for your thesis(Ph.d)