sufganiyot fox ✡️<p>sometimes I wish it was possible to be like Hoshi Sato, just picking up entire languages in a couple days</p><p>I always watch stuff with subtitles bc I have some minor auditory processing issues¹</p><p>lately I've been watching a lot of dubbed² stuff³ and it's been really fascinating seeing the differences between the dubs and the subtitles meant as a translation for the original language</p><p>I mean, it's similar to the way subtitles meant for <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Deaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Deaf</span></a> and <a href="https://babka.social/tags/HardOfHearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardOfHearing</span></a> viewers are sometimes slightly off from what was said (which is an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> issue)</p><p><a href="https://babka.social/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disability</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/AuditoryProcessingDisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AuditoryProcessingDisorder</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p><p>¹ it's worst over the phone, which is fun since that's my whole job, or if I otherwise can't see the person who's speaking, which sometimes happens in TV/movies<br>² I finished <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Ranma12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ranma12</span></a> and started <a href="https://babka.social/tags/ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo</span></a><br>³ or, in the case of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/StopHibariKun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopHibariKun</span></a>, both an anime and a manga with fan translations by different people</p>