An Introduction to Audiovisual Translation and the Difficulty of Translating Cultural Phenomena

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What is Audiovisual Translation? Have you ever watched a film or series and thought “I wonder how they would translate this scene into a foreign language”? For many countries in Europe, such as Germany, Italy, France, Sweden and the Netherlands, watching dubbed or subtitled films is the norm. Dubbing and subtitling, the two most common…