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But these shortcuts also hide something that you can only hear: her slight Eastern French accent. That makes for a real-sounding character.

Timbré (= “stamped,” literally) itself is an informal slang word for fou (= crazy).

Que l’autre timbré (= than that other crazy guy) becomes “Qu’l’aut’timbré” (impressive eating of vowels!).

She conflates Jamais aussi mauvais (= won’t be as bad as) and pas pire que (= not worst than) into the technically grammatically-incorrect, “ jamais aussi pire que” (= “never as worst as”).

Je ne sais pas (= I don’t know) becomes “ Je sais pas,” pronounced “ Chais pas”.

= Oh dear, I don’t know what the new one will be like, but at least it will never be worse than the other crazy guy, with his tape recorder.įirst, she’s using informal spoken French, eating vowels and using informal vocabulary and grammar:

Mon vieux, je sais pas comment sera le nouveau mais en tout cas, ce sera jamais aussi pire que l’autre timbré là, avec son magnétophone. In the clip I included in the video lesson, you can hear her say: The waitress Georgette speaks with her own accent. Uses several made-up euphemisms for sexual terms.Īccurate French subs, according to. Québécois dialect, very slangy, good subs. Has fairly accurate subs, at least for seasons 1 and 2. Transcripts are available somewhere online. The actual on-disk subtitles are wildly different from the audio, but the transcripts are accurate and the dubbing is very good.īelieved to have subtitles. Un Conte de Noël (Canadian edition from EF1 films, but not Criterion edition).The Hunger Games (French release, 85–95% accurate).La Femme Nikita (the movie, not the show).Harry Potter 1 (at least one French release, 85–95% accurate).Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban (Region 1 release, at least, but not the earlier films).These were mentioned on HTLAL as having good subtitles, presumably on the DVD. Dialog is quite fast and colloquial.Īccurate subtitles on DVD (Region 1, Quebec release) Some of the dialog is in a Quebec dialect, and the subtitles are mostly transcribed in standard French with some Quebec vocabulary.Īccurate subtitles on DVD (Region 1, Quebec release)Īccurate subtitles on DVD (checked Quebec release). The French subs on the disc are at least 80% accurate. These aren't quite exact, but the first several minutes appear to have only minor omissions, and there's lots of slang.

Amelie subtitles series#

You can find more movies and series in this HTLAL thread.įrench subtitles (on at least some US DVDs) If you look, there are sub-sites for each series, and the lists of episodes will sometimes include scripts. Beware tiny subtitle files-some of the movies claiming to have subtitles have only one or two scenes' worth.

Amelie subtitles movie#

These can be used with VLC (if you rip the movie to a hard drive) or with subs2srs. Your best bets for finding subtitles or transcripts are the following: A few have 3rd-party transcripts that aren't synchronized with the dialog.

Amelie subtitles tv#

The following movies and TV shows have mostly-accurate French subtitles, either on the disk or somewhere online.