Ani's 2018 Log

[rdearman]

With netflix you might want to login to the web-interface where your account is and change the language to French. When I did this (to Italian) it seemed to trigger Netflix to give me the option of Italian sub-titles for shows which had previously not shown Italian as an option.

[Ani]

With netflix you might want to login to the web-interface where your account is and change the language to French. When I did this (to Italian) it seemed to trigger Netflix to give me the option of Italian sub-titles for shows which had previously not shown Italian as an option.

Thanks I'll look into that. I am set to French now though -- at least as far as my user profile goes. It's possible there's another setting I missed? It's worth looking at least..

[Cavesa]

Yes, steering the thread completely away was not my intention, sorry if I did.

After all, teachers are teachers under any ideology. As a czech joke says: "a teacher, that is not a profession, that is a diagnoses" and it is often not meant as meanly as it sounds. I actually find this much more dignified than the usual "it is a calling and a noble purpose" which is just an argument for paying teachers badly. Some characteristics of teachers are more or less universal.

It is sometimes really hard to give the truthful answers to them, instead of the "correct" ones. I had clashes with several teachers due to this as my conscience couldn't bear saying and writing some stuff (and I am lucky to live in a country with freedom of speech, where a worse grade is the only consequence of having a "wrong" opinion). And it is not just me, my young sister has recently got a worse grade (Czech language and literature class) for her article on a book about someone with an autistic spectrum disorder. Unlike her teacher, my sister knows it is a spectrum and that not all the autists are Rain Men.

This is present everywhere and language classes are actually the trickiest, as they can touch a much wider range of subjects than the others. You won't get into social issues in a physics class usually. And during the language classes, you also have a disadvantage of limited skills in the language allowing you much less evasiveness and much less confidence to tell someone their question is inappropriate or their opinion is based on very limited experience. Perhaps the coursebooks should include stuff like "Excuse me, but your question is too personal" or "I see where you're coming from but cannot agree" much earlier

It is definitely true the experience shapes people a lot and it doesn't end with just one generation. Every generation transfers their experience on the following ones in one form or another. That's why there are so many problems around here. The totalitarian regime didn't end completely in 1989. And contrary to popular belief, some of its remnants will not end even when everyone who was adult in 1989 dies.

This won't be a small globalised world in a long time. What we are seeing are just superficial signs, good or bad.

But as one of the good superficial signs, I want a full value Netflix with lots of language options everywhere!

[IronMike]

I'm ready to cancel Netflix. Is there ANYTHING decent to watch right now in French, Russian or Icelandic audio? HELP!

I really want to watch Supernatural in French after thread discussion elsewhere but it's only English/Spanish on my Netflix. I feel like so much less is available in French than 6 months to a year ago. Even the new seasons of Pocoyo & Masha et Michka lack French..

I think I'm going to be like one of those crazy people who bought like 16 tape players & all the cassettes they could find when cassette tapes "died". I am going to need to stock DVD players, TV's with actual input plugs, and all the foreign language DVD's.... Apparently my language of interest has been predetermined for me. No use arguing with the state.

You may also want to either a) cancel Netflix and restart Canadian netflix, or b) VPN from a French location. I'm not sure which will work (or both?) but when we were in Moscow, we had "EU" Netflix and our subtitle choices were mostly Finnish with some things available in Russian. Our ISP was Moscow.

[Ani]

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You may also want to either a) cancel Netflix and restart Canadian netflix, or b) VPN from a French location. I'm not sure which will work (or both?) but when we were in Moscow, we had "EU" Netflix and our subtitle choices were mostly Finnish with some things available in Russian. Our ISP was Moscow.

AFAIK, Netflix will change what you have available based on ISP without regards to where to signed up. I used to have a French VPN but like 2 years ago Netflix got smart to the VPNs and was blocking them as fast they could be restored. While lots of VPN companies focused on unblocking US Netflix for their customers, basically none of them bothered with France after that. I never tried Canada but that could be possible and more helpful with French content.

[Ani]

Looks like I can get alternate languages if I go back to 1999 and get physical DVD's from Netflix lol. Maybe...

Glossika lost 200 reps on me it's almost unforgivable. It's like 35 minutes of work. <Sigh>

Haven't done much of anything this week. Pretty busy plus DH was home a day sick. He always messes up my study routine

[brilliantyears]

RE: Netflix, I'm in the Netherlands and I tried to change my language and/or look for Russian audio but I'm out of luck as well (although I can set my language to Bulgarian ) Besides The Sniffer and 2 movies, there's nothing out there with Russian audio. Very frustrating.

[Ani]

RE: Netflix, I'm in the Netherlands and I tried to change my language and/or look for Russian audio but I'm out of luck as well (although I can set my language to Bulgarian ) Besides The Sniffer and 2 movies, there's nothing out there with Russian audio. Very frustrating.

I'm not disagreeing with you in spirit but Unogs says you might have Silverspoon and Locust? Unogs hasn't been very reliable lately but Silverspoon is a really great series of you by chance have it but missed it. I'm pretty bummed. It looked like Netflix was going the other way making more and more languages available for a while.

[brilliantyears]

I checked but unfortunately neither is available

[Xmmm]

How about "Total Drama"? Cartoon show, six seasons. It's dubbed into Russian and available in US. It's not as good as Locust, but better than Sniffer or Silver Spoon. (Completely different genres but my opinion, anyway).