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Faux Fluency
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Sometimes, when a role in a film or TV show requires a character to speak in a certain language, and there are no suitable actors available that are fluent in it, one takes the actors available and have them learn their lines by rote, just sounding the words out phonetically. This creates an unusual situation where the actors who do this do not truly understand what their own characters are saying. It can sound very grating to viewers who are fluent in the language the actor is attempting to speak, as they are extremely likely to mispronounce and have problems with intonation. As well, if the actor doesn't understand the language they're speaking, it's hard for them to sync up their body language and expressions, so their delivery and timing may seem stiff and awkward. As well, sometimes vocalists sing a song in a language they don't speak. Some singers may have a few songs in a language they don't speak for artistic reasons, such as singing a Bossa Nova song in Portuguese. Some singers re-record a single that's originally in their native tongue in multiple languages to boost sales in other markets, or because another language market loves that singer. As well, some film producers with a film that will be marketed internationally in many different languages (with dubbed dialogue) have the soundtrack singer do the international tracks phonetically. It's either this or As Long as It Sounds Foreign. Contrast Surprisingly Good Foreign Language. |
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The Shape of Water cast British actress Sally Hawkins as Elisa Esposito, who is mute and uses American Sign Language to communicate. While non-signers likely couldn't distinguish a difference, it was obvious to those native or fluent in ASL that her signing is actually quite terrible. | |
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Awaken: Lee Chung-ah (South Korean) plays Jamie Leighton (born in South Korea, raised in America). The result is Jamie's English is much more stilted than you'd expect from someone who grew up in America. | |
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In the remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), Keanu Reeves' Klaatu speaks to an elderly man (who is really an alien disguised in human form) in Mandarin Chinese. It's a valiant effort, but still pretty bad. | |
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Sarah Fukumachi in Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue is supposed to be an American CIA agent, but she was played by Kiyomi Tsukada, a Japanese actress. Whenever Sarah tries to speak English, it becomes extremely obvious that Tsukada is not actually from America. | |
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Over the last few years, there have been several actors from non-German-language productions of Tanz Der Vampire recreating their roles in Germany; most, if not all of them, have had to learn their roles phonetically. | |
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In OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, Jean Dujardin, who doesn't speak Arabic, sings Bambino in Arabic. Of course in this case the character doesn't speak Arabic either, as part and parcel of his Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist schtick. | |
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Fictional example: The Kids in the Hall features a sketch in which a shopkeeper (Dave Foley) does not understand English, but can flawlessly recite several English statements explaining his lack of understanding. This, of course, befuddles a man trying to speak to him. "I'm sorry, I'd love to be of assistance, but I'm afraid I speak no English." | |
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David Byrne learned the French lines in "Psycho Killer" phonetically. He'd translated them into that language with the help of his bandmate Tina Weymouth, who does speak it. | |
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For Golden Balls, Portuguese actress Maria de Medeiros was not fluent in Spanish back then and had to do crash courses in the language, and learned some of her lines phonetically. | |
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Heroes: James Kyson Lee is Korean-American and does not actually speak Japanese. He did extensive work with dialect coaches to get a convincing accent on both the Japanese and English dialogue. One of the episode commentaries includes him observing that now he sounds fluent, but the only Japanese phrases he knows are ones that will never come up in conversation. | |
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Legendary Danish monster movie Reptilicus was originally done entirely with Danish actors speaking English phonetically. The producer didn't believe they were incomprehensible until he played it for some Americans. He then had it redubbed with native English speakers. | |
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The 2002 motion picture Chicago featured a Hungarian inmate unable to speak anything but Hungarian. The role however was played by a Russian actress, Ekaterina Chtchelkanova, who most likely learned the lines phonetically. To a fluent Hungarian speaker the speech is muddled to the point of gibberish. | |
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Kill Bill: O-Ren Ishii is played by Lucy Liu, who doesn't speak Japanese, so her Japanese lines sound very off to a native speaker (though hers is still passable compared to the Bride's atrocious take of the language). O-Ren's English, on the other hand, is flawless, betraying Liu's American origin. | |
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One episode of Scrubs had a patient say, "I lived in Kyoto for about five years" in Japanese. She clearly didn't spend those five years learning the language. | |
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World of Warcraft has had varying results when it comes to portraying the indigenous languages. The worst case is arguably the blood elves, whose voice actors pronounce every word of their language with a very clear American accent. | |
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Happened in The Mambo Kings as well. The trivia section at IMDB claims that "Antonio Banderas couldn't speak English when this movie was filmed, and thus performed all his lines phonetically (he became fluent around the time of Philadelphia). Armand Assante couldn't speak Spanish, and thus performed all his lines phonetically." | |
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Clarence Nash, original voice actor for Donald Duck used phonetic scripts in order to dub the character in any language needed so that the character's Speech Impediment would be internationally known. | |
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Inglourious Basterds was a difficult movie to cast because Quentin Tarantino insisted on the multi-lingual dialogue being as close to perfect as possible, as a significant part of the film and underlying tension is based around language barriers. And long conversations discussing peculiarities of each others' accents. While Christoph Waltz really does speak the German, French, and English required of him, for the scene in which his character speaks Italian, he learned his lines phonetically. Luckily, the character's grasp of Italian is supposed to be much more limited. | |
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The Pink Panther (1963) featured the Italian-language song "Meglio Stasera". It was performed by American singer-actress Fran Jeffries, who learned the lyrics phonetically. | |
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In Moon Knight (2022), Arthur Harrow claims that everyone in his enclave is fluent in at least three languages and speaks a bit of Mandarin to demonstrate. Ethan Hawke's attempt at speaking the language was criticized over how he mangled the pronunciation and didn't even attempt to use proper tones. | |
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The English dub of Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- required Fai to speak French for a scene. Vic Mignogna could not master the French language, leaving the ADR Team to string together several phrases. | |
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1959 German film The Bridge has seven teenaged boys defending a bridge against attacking American soldiers. The American soldiers who call out to the boys speak with very odd accents, as they are German actors trying unsuccessfully to sound American. | |
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In all versions of Deep Fear for the Sega Saturn, the characters speak entirely in English. This includes the Japanese company representative Ken Fujiyama, voiced by Japanese actor Shingo Hiromori, whose extremely thick accent and strange line readings indicate that he learned all of his dialog phonetically. | |
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The X-Files: "Hell Money", set in San Francisco's Chinatown, has a number of Asian performers playing Cantonese-speaking Chinese immigrants with varying degrees of credibility. Lucy Liu has said that although she speaks Mandarin, she was thrown for a loop when she saw her role called for Cantonese and was forced to perform lines phonetically. Michael Yama, who played her father, was Japanese-American and similarly struggled to nail the dialect; he ultimately decided to re-record his dialogue in post-production to avoid errors on set. James Hong and B.D. Wong fare better, since they had some Real Life experience with Cantonese. "Triangle" features a World War II flashback with several of the characters (Cigarette-Smoking Man, Skinner and Jeffrey Spender) as Nazis speaking German. William B. Davis and Chris Owens did not speak a word of German and had to learn their lines from a language tape. On the other hand, Mitch Pileggi has a good command of German from his time living in Munich as a teenager and his dialogue is reasonably well-done, though he's obviously not a native speaker. |
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Fallout 3: In general, the Chinese characters in pronounce and inflect their lines too badly to be intelligible to the typical Chinese-speaking player. Then there's the 18th-century samurai in the "Mothership Zeta" DLC. You can't understand him at all, even if you happen to know the language. Unfortunately, the subtitles are transliterations of his words, which means you can't even put them through a Japanese-English translator. Then again, a modern Japanese person would have a hard time understanding someone from 18th-century speaking their period language. |
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Black Lagoon: Revy is a New Yorker. Bet you can't tell. Russian there is no better. At least they get some grammar right. |
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Daniel Jackson from Stargate SG-1 is said to be fluent in 23 languages and is shown speaking English, Ancient Egyptian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and German (not to mention the made-up languages) in the show. He also appeared to have knowledge of Welsh. Presumably, Michael Shanks is not fluent in all of these languages. Additionally, any of the actors playing Goa'uld who speak Ancient Egyptian or other older languages feature this trope as well. | |
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X2: X-Men United had Alan Cumming portrait the German mutant Nightcrawler. While his German accent is spot-on, the lines he had in actual German sound rather strange to a native speaker. | |
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The Interpreter avoided this by making up a language (Ku) and a country (Matobo). | |
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In Charlie's Angels (2000), the angels speak in a "secret language" that is actually badly mangled Finnish. They had to subtitle the dialogue even in the Finnish edit of the film. | |
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For The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob, the French character of Tzippé "Mamé" Schmoll was played by the American actress Janet Brandt. She didn't speak French, so she had to learn the role phonetically, hence she sounds off compared to everyone else. | |
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Jan Vlasák's character (the Dutch businessman) in Hostel speaks English almost exclusively throughout the film, yet he had to memorise his lines phonetically since he doesn't speak a word of English. The German businessman who tortures Jay Hernandez is played by a Czech actor, while Hernandez (who is Mexican-American) pleads for his life in fluent German. Vlasák is Czech as well, making his English lines even more impressive as he speaks them in a perfect Dutch accent. | |
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Ritchie Valens' La Bamba. He was a Mexican-American who grew up speaking English. | |
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Lost: Daniel Dae Kim was raised in America and had not spoken Korean with any regularity in many years, but the role required him to speak it almost exclusively as a native speaker. Ironically, his character's wife, who is fluent in English, is played by the Korean actress Yunjin Kim, who speaks English as a second language with a real Korean accent. She helped Daniel Dae Kim relearn Korean for the role, while her character helps his character learn English in the show. Naveen Andrews does not actually speak Arabic, but Sayid does in flashbacks. Mark Pellegrino, as Jacob, does a quite average job at speaking Korean to Jin and Sun in the Season 5 finale. Despite this, Jin and Sun reflect that his Korean is 'excellent.' |
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In Shark Attack 3: Megalodon, only John Barrowman and a tiny handful of his costars spoke English. All the other actors are from Bulgaria (where the movie was filmed) and had to memorize their lines. | |
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Red vs. Blue: The Red Team's robot, Lopez, can only speak Spanish. None of Rooster Teeth's staff can speak Spanish, though, so his dialogue is written in English, run through online translators, and then read out by the voice actor. The overall accuracy of the Spanish is about what you'd expect. Of course, as the character is a robot, the absence of an accent and the flat delivery make some in-universe sense. | |
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The City of Lost Children: Ron Perlman does not speak French and had to memorize all of his lines phonetically. That's a big issue considering he's a main character and speaks throughout the film. To deal with this, the director made his character mentally impaired and rewrote his lines in Hulk Speak. Suddenly, his broken French made perfect sense in context. | |
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On one episode of Dollhouse, Echo was briefly given an imprint of a Russian girl. Eliza Dushku's attempt at Russian was better than expected, but she fumbled with pronunciation and inflection. | |
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Same for Selena, except she was from South Texas instead of the San Fernando Valley. | |
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Kaho Shimada, who played Eponine in the Tokyo production of Les Misérables, didn't speak any English when she was asked to sing for the Complete Symphonic Recording (which is, of course, in English). She learned all of her songs phonetically, and overall sounded great, even managing a bit of a lower-class English accent in the process. | |
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Tomizawa from "Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth" was born and raised in Hawaii - though you wouldn't know it listening to him speak English, as he sounds like he just stepped off the plane from Tokyo. | |
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Jennifer in [C] – Control speaks English in several scenes when dealing with her superiors in another country. It's generally grammatically correct, but her pronunciation is very off. Made even worse when contrasted with her boss, who is voiced by someone fluent in English and pronounces everything properly. | |
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Happened in the French movie Wasabi: the female lead is Japanese, and didn't speak a word of French, so she had to memorise all her lines. This does, however, fit her character, as she's a Japanese teen with some grasp of French. | |
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in Mandarin, but many of its leads were Cantonese speakers. This is one of the reasons that it was received much more favorably internationally, by audiences who were oblivious to accent problems and had to read the subtitles. | |
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Several actors in Syriana had to do this: George Clooney does not speak either Farsi or Arabic, but had to converse in both, and Alexander Siddig, whose character Prince Nasir speaks Arabic almost exclusively for the first half of the film, speaks no Arabic whatsoever- he is of Sudanese extraction but grew up in London. | |
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Inverted in Haikyuu!!. Protagonist Hinata is noted to be Book Dumb, particularly in English. His voice actor was actually born in California and is fluent. When Hinata (poorly) reads out a sentence in English in the Season 3 OVA, Murase had to put on a heavy accent. | |
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In the second Rebuild of Evangelion, Kaji and Mari speak English. Mari does OK, but Kaji's accent is practically unintelligible without subtitles. Judging from some of the expressions on the faces of the people he's talking to, it's possible that the character's English is as bad as his actor's. | |
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Russell Wong had to learn his lines in Mandarin for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor phonetically, because even though he is ethnic Chinese, he was born and raised in the States. | |
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The announcers for the Fruity Oaty Bars commercial from Serenity painstakingly practiced the pronunciation of the product's English name, but it's as mangled as the Mandarin. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Clogged Pore, a Little Spanish and the Future", when Georgie wants to go with Wade to Mexico to buy cigarettes, Connie tests Wade by asking him "Where can I find some cigarettes?" in Spanish. All Wade can say is "SÃ." | |
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When he appeared as the title character in Dracula (1931), Bela Lugosi couldn't speak English very well yet and had to learn his lines phonetically. This makes his performance as Count Dracula quite a contrast with many of his later roles, where he spoke far more natural (though still heavily accented) English. Unusually, this is a case of it working in his performance's favor, as his stilted delivery and idiosyncratic speech patterns only make his character seem all the more inhuman. | |
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Asami "Sam" Koizumi from Young Justice (2010) is a young girl from Japan, but her Japanese sounds very broken. Her voice actress, Janice Kawaye is fluent in Japanese, so it's possible that the writers made some errors. | |
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Nearly happened in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater — Akio Ohtsuka was more than willing to do all the Russian dialogue in rote-learned Russian, but the supporting cast revolted. | |
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Shin Godzilla: Actress Satomi Ishihara was cast as American government liaison Kayoko Ann Patterson, but didn't speak English and had to learn her lines phonetically, resulting her speaking English with a thick Japanese accent that many Western viewers complained about. | |
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Ofra Haza, the Israeli singer who voiced Moses' mother (Yocheved) in The Prince of Egypt, sang the opening song "Deliver Us" in 17 languages. She only needed to sing half of them phonetically. | |
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When filming Blackadder Back and Forth, Stephen Fry wasn't able to learn his Roman centurion's Latin lines by rote and had to read them off an "idiot board". That's right, Stephen Fry is not fluent in Latin - sorry to ruin your expectations. | |
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Gunslinger Girl has the first ending and a number of scenes with Italian dialogue. Every time it's grammatically correct but with the pronunciation so off that actual Italians can mistake it for Japanese. | |
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Done in-universe in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Other Side of the Horizon. Applejack mistakes another zebra for Zecora and tries to talk to him, only for the zebra to respond with "I don't speak Equestrian". In Equestrian. His voice is described as stilted in a way that meant he'd probably learned the line phonetically. | |
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In Limitless, Bradley Cooper's character becomes an Omniglot after taking special pills. While Cooper speaks fluent French in real life, his Mandarin Chinese, during a scene where he speaks to a waiter at a Chinese restaurant is deliberately a complete gibberish. | |
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On being handed the script for El Mariachi, Peter Marquardt who plays the Big Bad freaked out as he couldn't speak a word of Spanish. Since his character is an American drug boss who moved South of the Border and learnt bad Spanish, it didn't make much difference when Robert Rodriguez taught him to speak the lines phonetically. | |
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Grissom on CSI is observed several times speaking sign language, as his character has a deaf mother, and it's a plot point in the early seasons that he's going deaf himself. Will Peterson, the actor playing him, had to learn the signs by rote, as he didn't know the language. Reportedly he did such a good job doing it that fans have gone up to him and attempted to sign to him, only to be confused when he confessed to not understanding it. Interestingly, one episode with a deaf schoolteacher tells Grissom his sign language is a little rusty, possibly as an In-Universe justification for any flubs the actor makes. | |
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The Rose Tattoo was the first English-language film (not counting a few bits of Gratuitous Italian) for Anna Magnani. Tennessee Williams wrote the part of Serafina in the original play with her in mind, but she wasn't fluent enough for the American stage. Edith Head, the film's costume designer, found it easiest to talk with her in French. | |
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For Assassin's Creed II, the non-Italian voice actors were coached by native Italians. They do, however, have every Italian in the game use the same dialect, which was not the case during that time period. We can chalk this up to the Animus 2.0, though. | |
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: It is pretty obvious in the season 2 Paris segment, that Marin Hinkle does not speak French as well as one can expect from a francophile woman that spent part of her youth in Paris. | |
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Russian film And Quiet Flows the Don features as a minor character Mr. Campbell, a Briton with the Whites in the civil war, apparently as a liason. Mr. Campbell says the Bolsheviks will win. He says it in English with a thick Russian accent. | |
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There's nobody alive who would believe you if you said Koda Kumi wasn't taught the English translation of her song "Real Emotion" (from the Final Fantasy X-2 soundtrack) by being locked in a room with a dictionary and a tutor. English-fluent Jade from Sweetbox was eventually given the song. | |
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Similarly to the Durarara!! example, Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing feature a lot of Russian-speaking characters. They do a fair job, but their accents are still very grating. Except Viola, whose voice actore is a native Russian. | |
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Highlander: Although lead actor Christopher Lambert was born in New York and had already appeared in an English-language film (Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes), he is a Frenchman and barely spoke any English. He had to learn the language quickly and learned his lines virtually phonetically. Luckily, he's supposed to have a muddled accent through most of the film. | |
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The climax of Arrival revolves around Amy Adams’s character Louise having to say a phrase in Mandarin. She doesn’t speak Mandarin and had to learn the phrase phonetically. She tried for two weeks to memorize it (Mandarin is notoriously hard for native English speakers) but inevitably taped index cards with the pronunciations on the wall of the room. At best her pronunciation is What the Hell Is That Accent?, at worst it’s unintelligible gibberish. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV, there are a few scenes where Niko speak his native Serbian, which is grammatically correct but obviously pronounced phonetically. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the writers translated an entire scene in one episode to (mostly) correct Swedish. They planned on dubbing over the scene with native speakers, but Abraham Benrubi and Emma Caulfield learned their lines and read them without any coaching. Whedon decided to leave their performance intact, though Swedish speakers would find it hard to pick up more than a few words here and there. | |
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Firefly: The American/Canadian cast had to do this to learn how to say their Mandarin profanities. (In the commentary, Nathan Fillion recounts the problem that the language tapes were a calm dictation, while they were trying to apply while acting with emotion, and something would get lost in the process.) The announcers for the Fruity Oaty Bars commercial from Serenity painstakingly practiced the pronunciation of the product's English name, but it's as mangled as the Mandarin. |
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In the movie of The Kite Runner, some of the adult actors had to learn their lines in Farsi (also known as Dari). It's not painfully obvious because child actors who played young Amir and Hassan were native speakers, and they are the only characters really in the first half of the movie. | |
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Family Guy featured an episode with ten or so Thai women escaping from various places in Quagmire's garage while Quagmire shouts at them in Thai; Seth MacFarlane (Quagmire's voice actor) was taught phrases in Thai by one of the writers (Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, who speaks it fluently and provided the voices for every one of the girls). This is pointed out in the commentary, which goes on to say that it's almost certainly self-deprecating humor. | |
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In Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb, Indy's attempt at speaking Chinese is pretty miserable and, quite glaringly, some of the characters who are meant to be ethnic Chinese in the game get quite a lot of the pinyin tones wrong. Both are regarded as native-level fluent in-universe, and Indy even pulls off a Bilingual Backfire that, in real life, sounds rote-learned at BEST and incomprehensible gibberish at worst. | |
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Killing Eve: Jodie Comer's French is... passable but her pronunciation and intonation are way off. There is not a chance that she would pass for someone that actually lives in Paris and is understood right away by French people. | |
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The Korean drama Joint Security Area suffers from this; the UN investigator unraveling the mystery at the DMZ is a Korean actress playing a Swiss army officer who obviously learned her English lines phonetically. | |
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Simon from Durarara!! has a conversation with a pair of Russian tourists in Russian and later one with Izaya. It is painfully obvious that none of their voice actors have any familiarity with Russian. Simon's speech is at least somewhat understandable, but Izaya's doesn't even register as Russian. | |
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The Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life has Angelina Jolie speak horribly-mangled Mandarin to a family living on a boathouse in Hong Kong. To make it even worse, Cantonese is the language of the region. | |
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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit: All of the various actors who speak one of the conlangs from the original source material are faking fluency. They were coached by people who'd actually made themselves fluent in the fictional languages. Phonetic pronunciations for the lyrics of the choral chanting given to a London-based choir, seemingly without any further indication. The transcription by necessity couldn't keep all the original phonemes distinct, and sometimes had blatant mistakes. Plus, the choir (and particularly the boy sopranos) had a non-rhotic English accent, and so tended to drop the R's after vowels (which are especially important in Quenya as plural markers). |
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The entire reason why Jeff Altman was forced to cohost Pink Lady and Jeff was because the titular band could not speak a word of English; the members (Mie and Kei) learned their lines and songs phonetically... and it showed strongly. There are instances where their dialogue is unintelligible, and the guest stars that they greet look on awkwardly before delivering their rehearsed lines. The show lasted just six episodes, of which only five made it prior to cancellation. | |
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Agnetha and Anni-Frid spoke no English when they began singing with ABBA, and had to learn the lyrics this way. | |
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Ohno's conversations with her American friends in the anime version of Genshiken. | |
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An awful, awful attempt at speaking Russian was made by Boris in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. | |
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The Man in the High Castle: Most of the Japanese characters are played by Japanese-Americans who speak Japanese fluently. However, Joel de la Fuente, playing Chief Inspector Kudo, has no Japanese ancestry and does not speak the language, so he must learn his Japanese lines phonetically. This is lampshaded in one episode where he laments that he's spent so long in America that his Japanese has developed an American accent. Some of the German characters speak German as native speakers, but most either have accents or clearly just speak the lines phonetically. This is dodged with the main Nazi character, John Smith, being an American-born turncoat to the Nazi regime who admits that his German isn't very good. |
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Free! has several scenes set in Sydney in which Rin speaks English with citizens (who are voiced by actual English speakers). Mamoru Miyano is very much this, although the English-speaking fanbase found it rather endearing. | |
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Night Raid 1931 has many foreign languages being spoken in it, being a 1930s spy thriller set mainly in Shanghai. But whenever the main characters try to speak a foreign language, it is so obvious their voice actors are speaking phonetically. Aoi's Mandarin in the first episode is quite grating, and Kazura's German in a later episode is just as bad. However, background & one-shot foreign characters are played by native speakers. For example, the Chinese soldiers in the Nationalist camp in the first episode are definitely fluent speakers, and the Russian violinist in the second episode is acted by a native Russian (he even gets the upper-class drawl of the violinist correct). In episode 6, Big Bad Takachiho Isao holds a conference between representatives from nearly half a dozen Asian nations and everyone speaks heavily-accented English. Isao himself speaks some English when he kidnaps British diplomat Bulwer-Lytton, just with a thick accent. | |
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In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the man playing the Indian village shaman didn't speak a word of English. He delivered his lines by mimicking Steven Spielberg, who was prompting him off-camera. Spielberg also did hand actions while speaking the lines, which is why the shaman moves his hands across his forehead and such. Kate Capshaw also had to learn the entire song at the beginning in Mandarin. | |
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