If you don't want to indicate the country you are from, maybe you can tell us your "mother" language. I think it would be cool to have context.
Besides English, I'll rank them as following:
-Italian
-French
-Japanese
-Polish
-Czech
-German
French
Italian
German
Japanese
American here
I dig the Italian and South Korean thrillers quite a lot but I need subs...We do a lousy job teaching foreign languages here in The States (which is incredibly stupid!)
Another American here. My foreign film watching is all over the place.
In college, I belonged to the Spanish Club and we watched Spanish films.
French- Diabolique
Swedish- Wild Strawberries
Yes, we do a very poor job at teaching foreign languages.
As 'The Melting Pot' we really need to get on this
American kids should have a good grasp of Spanish, Mandarin and Russian at the very least
I attempted Spanish two years in a row and my Spanish teacher moved me to shop class lol...I was pretty bad at Spanish!
french was the only class i believe i flirted with failing in high school.
the last year i took it, my teacher gave me the slimmest of passing marks, and gave me a look that basically said 'this is a gift. don't try coming back here next year.'
so that was the end of french classes for me.
ShogunofYonkers- Don't sell yourself short, shop isn't easy. I am one of those people who has trouble following simple directions to put things together.
My brother-in-law is a whiz at building things. I buy little tables and bookcases from catalogues which have to be put together. He pointed out that I put the shelves in one of them upside down! I wanted to tell him to SHUT UP...in Spanish! lol
I've always had what they call "a facility for languages". I took Spanish in high school and college. I took German too. I bought books and tapes and tried to teach myself French and Japanese.
I'm so rusty now. I just don't get a chance to use any languages other than English. And in the town I live in, people have enough trouble just speaking English. ha!
Oh, shop was fun and it turns out I'm amazing at building bird houses:)
As for the Spanish I'm confident I can locate any library in the Spanish speaking world😬
i can make out a little of the french
that's about it
French
Spanish
S. Korean
Norwegian
Japanese
I speak English and French, although I'm getting pretty rusty on the French these days.
canadian here. i took french for 4 years in high school, and retained not even a little bit of it. i might remember how to ask where the bathroom is.
i'm doing nothing this afternoon (my legs are sore from overdoing jogging on the weekend), so i took a moment to tally all the foreign films i've watched for the ytd.
brazil - 1
china - 1
cuba - 1
denmark - 2
finland - 1
french - 20 (!)
german - 6
indonesia - 2
iran - 1
italy - 6
japan - 11
kenya - 1
korea - 3
macedonia - 1
mexico - 4
polish - 1
russian - 2
senegal - 1
spain - 5
sweden - 1
vietnam - 1
french
korean
I am American and I actually keep a log of all the films I watch and I tallied a page of the last 130 entries.
Italy - 47
Spain - 1
Japan - 4
English speaking countries - 78
47 italian films? any particular reason you've focused on italy? is there a particular genre or group of directors/actors that you are digging into? or do you speak the language?
shareI’m pretty much engrossed in spaghetti westerns, horror, Gallo, Poliziotteschi and any other sub genre they worked in from the 60’s to the 80’s.
I do tend to dig into certain directors or actors and try to exhaust their filmography.
Directors I follow:
Mario Bava
Fernando Di Leo
Sergio Corbucci
Umberto Lenzi
Lucio Fulci
Ruggero Deodato
Antonio Margheriti
Bruno Mattei
Sergio Martino
Joe Damato
Sergio Leon
Dario Argento
Claudio Fragasso
It’s the same groups of actors who are seen in many of these genre films too. Following these directors can really be a wild ride that goes into all kinds of strange sub genres also. Oh, and I do not speak Italian but I’ve certainly thought of learning. There’s many films out there I can’t find subs for.