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fizban
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Bucheon
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 Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:01 pm Post subject: Where to Find Korean Subtitles |
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Does anyone know a good site to get Korean subtitles for American movies?
I'd like to show some movie clips and or movies but a lot of them don't have korean audio/subtitle options and while I can convert the media to .avi or another format finding .sub or .srt files in korean have proven tricky. |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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thu_tinh
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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how does it work?
what's an smi file? |
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SuperHero
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Location: Superhero Hideout
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| thu_tinh wrote: |
how does it work?
what's an smi file? |
smi is a subtitle file extension. There are several different subtitle formats, that's just one of them.
basically you make sure that the subtitle file and movie file have the exact same name including case except for the extension. put the subtitle file in the same folder as the movie and watch the movie. Depending on the player you may have to add the subtitles or it may get picked up automatically.
When I burn a movie and subtitle file to cd/dvd my player picks the subs up automatically, though sometimes lines get cut off as these subtitle files are designed for computer players rather than stand alone players.
are you planning on showing Korean subtitles to your students? that's not particularly good English language teaching. |
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thu_tinh
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 1:57 am Post subject: |
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| oh so i can't download the movies from the site just only the subtitles? |
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thu_tinh
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| when most of you show films in class are there subtitles or no? |
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SuperHero
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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| I show video with English subtitles. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| SuperHero wrote: |
| I show video with English subtitles. |
Same here.
Student: Teacher, why no subtitle?
I: There are subtitles. They're in English.
Student: But we need them in Korean.
I: You have to wait for your Korean class to get those. This is English class.
Then they all laugh and we talk about the story and I let them watch it again. |
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fizban
Joined: 06 Feb 2007
Location: Bucheon
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject: Subtitles |
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The GOM website does provide good subtitles.
For those that were having problems like I was initially. Just download the subtitle you want. It'll be a .sml file. Make sure it has the same name as your video file and use a universal player like media player classic or VLC and it'll automatically play the subtitle file.
And sometimes, you have to give a little to get a little. Kids want to enjoy the movie. Subtitles help them enjoy it. And if you think a "once a week" English class is teaching them English, you're deluded.
Our job is to enhance and supplement their core lessons that they get multiple times via Korean instruction. We provide stimuli to hopefully get them to internalize "lessons learned" and use English instead of regurgitating it.
And just by listening to Korean dramas and reading subtitles, I've learned some Korean expressions. It's the same repetitive scheme that's time tested in all language institutes but as long as I'm engaged in the story, I don't care I'm learning.
So to discount having subtitles in the native language for a foreign film is not the best way IMO. It's just another tool in the bag. |
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thu_tinh
Joined: 27 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| i wanted to download movies for myself =) |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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fizban,
You're right. Mostly, I do that little routine above as a joke since I'm showing current Region 1 DVDs using my computer. They very rarely ever have Korean subtitles.
I'll give that subtitle download site a whirl. To display the DVDs on the classroom television, I have to use Windows Media Player. Let's hope that program works with it. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay, how do you use the GOM site to get the subtitles? |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Agreed about the English subtitles.
When I was learning Chinese, we watched some Chinese films. They were in Chinese and had Chinese subtitles. It was really hard for me at first, but I got used to it. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| Chinese shows have Chinese subtitles because of the number of different dialects (which are actually different languages) in China. Oddly enough, they use the same written language. It's easier to just subtitle the things in Chinese than dub them over for every dialect in the country. |
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littlelisa
Joined: 12 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:39 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I know that. The DVD could have just as easily showed English subtitles, though (I know they were on there), or no subtitles at all. It was shown to us with Chinese subtitles for the same reason that people here are showing English movies with English subtitles. It was a Chinese class, not an English one. |
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