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I'm such a nerd.. A dutch friend of mine remarked "One reason the Dutch are so good at english is when you go to the movies we dont have voice overs, we use closed captioning instead"...
I replied "no you don't", and he protested before i pointed out it is literally impossible for a movie theater to show closed captioning because by definition closed captioning implies the viewer has the control to turn it off and on, which you cant do at a theater. He was referring to open captioning :)
@MartyFouts Very cool!
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Oh wow, that sounds kinda suck. Phone in front of you, and your eyes constantly have to switch between the movie in the distance and the text near you?
I'm starting to understand the complaints of my deaf American friends. ;)
@trinsec @freemo I misremembered. They give you a device on a gooseneck that fits in the cup holder on the chair. You position it so it is just below the screen in your field of view. It is not much different than the scrolling text of open captions except it never obscures the view. I find it comfortable enough.
@freemo@qoto.org While watching things with subtitles instead of voice overs is good, I think people overestimate the effectiveness.
Dutch people are good at English and nearly everyone can speak fluently, but I don't think anyone can become fluent in a language by just watching TV. We also interact a lot with English media and English people in general.
For example I'm pretty sure I've watched more Japanese media with subtitles in my life than I've watched English media, yet I speak fluent English but I can only say basic sentences in Japanese.
@freemo Icon theater chain in the US has closed captions. If you want to see the captions you use a device that feeds them to your phone (via BT?). Other members of the audience cannot see your screen. Probably other chains do as well.