Hello all! For a while I've wanted to combine my love of languages and Young Indy! The dialogue-writers on the show went to great lengths in composing what seems to be grammatically-correct, accurate non-English dialogue for the show, but the authors of the subtitles did not always bring across all the nuances (see the Arabic dialogue from Love's Sweet Song). Hats off to SPF and the other actors for taking the time to memorize dialogue outside their mother tongue!
What I'm hoping to do is re-create as much of the original foreign language dialogue as possible based on the subtitles and multiple listenings of the lines spoken by the actors.
Many of you are linguistically inclined and we have many native speakers of European languages on these boards. (Plus, many of you are the best researchers on the net! ) Anyone is welcome to lend their skills to any episode or section of dialogue in whatever language they wish. I have very basic (read: poor) skills in French and German and I'm hoping that my humble attempts will be critiqued and edited by those of you who are more skilled than I am, and also that you might make contributions of your own!
As for the other numerous languages spoken on the show, Russian, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian even Swahili!!! --- I hope you will all take a stab at anything you can make out.
My first question would be whether or not any of the actual scripts from the series contain the foreign language dialogue. Anyone have access to any of the scripts?? This might make things easier!
Anyway, remember that learning new languages is your key to the world! (to paraphrase that great quote from Curse of the Jackal)!
Anyway, thanks to all of you in advance!!!!! Looking forward to working with anyone who's interested over the next few weeks/months.
What I'm hoping to do is re-create as much of the original foreign language dialogue as possible based on the subtitles and multiple listenings of the lines spoken by the actors.
Many of you are linguistically inclined and we have many native speakers of European languages on these boards. (Plus, many of you are the best researchers on the net! ) Anyone is welcome to lend their skills to any episode or section of dialogue in whatever language they wish. I have very basic (read: poor) skills in French and German and I'm hoping that my humble attempts will be critiqued and edited by those of you who are more skilled than I am, and also that you might make contributions of your own!
As for the other numerous languages spoken on the show, Russian, Mandarin, Spanish, Italian even Swahili!!! --- I hope you will all take a stab at anything you can make out.
My first question would be whether or not any of the actual scripts from the series contain the foreign language dialogue. Anyone have access to any of the scripts?? This might make things easier!
Anyway, remember that learning new languages is your key to the world! (to paraphrase that great quote from Curse of the Jackal)!
Anyway, thanks to all of you in advance!!!!! Looking forward to working with anyone who's interested over the next few weeks/months.