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Netflix has recently added Spanish-language shows on its service in the US. And the company says American subscribers are loving it.
"We've licensed a lot of programming from Latin America into the US, and are getting incredible viewing," Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said in a call with shareholders today. "Shows that are successful for us in Mexico are now drawing huge numbers for us in the US."
Netflix has been able to reach a new demographic of users in the US, Sarandos says, by offering shows that originate in Latin America—and can assess what kinds of other content these users might find interesting. "We're getting hundreds of thousands of hours a day on single shows," Sarandos adds.
I started watching a Mexican program to keep up with my kids who are in dual-language kindergarten at school. Regrettably the plot advances at the snail's pace of all soap operas. Can any Soylentils recommend Spanish language shows on Netflix for our crowd?
Original Submission
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 17 2015, @07:58PM
Everyone expects you to speak English because it's the international language. Few people expect you to speak Tagalog (or other language). None expect English speakers to try. When you do, it's appreciated*.
*Except in France. French are bigger language bigots than Americans or British.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 18 2015, @01:18AM
Speak French to them.
Whenever I try to they reply in better English than The Queen Of England speaks. Consider that England was once a French possession.
I honestly intend no offense but they cannot tolerate my surfer dude accent.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @09:14AM
If you really want to piss the the French off, insist on speaking in french as taught in English public schools.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday July 18 2015, @08:36PM
"... English?"
"I went to public school."
A question I asked my Irish friend.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Saturday July 18 2015, @02:43PM
I speak French fine but they get pissy and reply in worse English rather than "suffer" to hear my accent sully their language. When I was younger that was when I'd turn the tables and roll through Mandarin and Japanese to watch them go slack-jawed with the dawning realization that they are terribly provincial.
To be fair I only encounter that attitude in Paris. Everywhere else in France people are perfectly lovely. As an aside that was the worst travel let-down I've ever had. After all the hype in song and story about how beautiful Paris is, I found it an ugly city with ugly people, rife with ugly racism and devoid of sophistication. Coming from Brooklyn it felt like a dull two-horse town where everything shut down at 9pm--how can a city that shuts down at 9pm puff itself up about its great night life? It was utterly filthy as well, with piss, excrement, and trash everywhere. Its cleanliness is really on par with, say, Manila, not with a first world city (no offense to Manila, which is great in other ways). I dunno, I've lived in Bordeaux, spent a lot of time in Les Pays Basque, and also in the north near Lille and Metz, and the Parisians ought to hang their heads in shame to be compared to those places. Where the Parisians get their arrogance from is mystifying.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @11:23PM
Back in the 80's some colleagues of mine were at an international conference in Paris. A group of them went out to dinner. One of them was from Quebec and, of course, was fluent in French. The group let him do the ordering. He spoke to the waiter in French (Canadian) and the waiter responded back in English.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @12:00AM
Perhaps the waiter heard that all the table spoke English and thought it would more efficient and polite to speak English so that no one would have to interpret everything and the other members of the group could understand that they could directly talk to him.
Ah, but no, it’s easier to assume the waiter was an asshole. He was French, that’s proof enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 19 2015, @01:54AM
Well, I'll go with what my friend and colleague, the one who was actually in the fucking conversation with the waiter over the course of a several hour meal, as to what the demeanor of the waiter was. Plus, it wasn't a table of all native English speakers. I think even a dumbass like you would agree those assumptions are a lot fucking easier than going off the assumption made from some asshole Francophile on the internet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @11:52PM
If your French were fine, you wouldn’t write “Les Pays Basque.”