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Name your five favorite foreign-language films/series.

Where foreign is foreign to you, no matter what languages you consider your own.

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Date: 2010-07-09 04:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jaaaarne
Foreign in relation to native, obviously. But why would you need a relation, anyway? Are you unsure of what "native" is to you? Is there even a choice?

I'm really sorry, but if you're viewing "foreign" from the perspective of Oscar award it being the first association you get on hearing this word, then it probably means that you're defaulting your POV to English yourself. Or that you're probably a big-big cinema fan. :D

Let me give a practical example. When I personally hear the word "foreign", I think "non-Russian". As in, non-native for myself. Films, music, cars, devices, people, countries etc. All that is not Russian is foreign. :) It could never occur to me to assume that "foreign" = "non-English", because English is foreign! :D It doesn't really need any clarifications, IMO. Adding that second line to the original post makes it sound like the OP is speaking to idiots who don't know what a word "foreign" means. No offence, sorry.

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