It has been almost two years I am living in a foreign country without able to speak in its native language. Fortunately in Netherlands, the country where I temporarily staying, English is practically a second language and I have used it for my daily conversation with non-Indonesians. The English I have used and practiced since I was here was not originated from school where I must spent hours sitting in a boring class room memorizing grammars. It was from watching television hours a day that I have gathered my English vocabulary and pronunciation I currently practiced here. Aside from this me-myself and I fact, although I am being considered fluent enough compared to my Indonesians and Chinese acquaintances, my English is not even as good as the Europeans here.
My point is this, I do realized that learning foreign language is about talent. Not everyone is in the capacity of easily adopting foreign languages. Cognitive ability and memory capacity might be different for each person, but for me the easiest way to learn vocabulary and pronunciation is by watching a movie/television drama. Based from my personal experiences I want to say there is no good with dubbing (system) and this proposed rule of banning foreign films from Indonesia.
In French and Italy the use dubbing system and guess how bad English is spoken by the people in this country. I rarely found dubbing foreign program in Dutch television, and the English is spoken almost impeccably by the natives here (well maybe all those cheese, salmon and spekulaas consuming playing larger contribution for their brain ability:D).
In Netherlands, most students from Asia failed earning good grades because their poor English. Even though most Stuned scholarship receivers must spend six months to learn English before their departure, English is still one of the major reason they find difficulty completing their study. It has long been an argument whether the English taught in school is good enough to prepare us in facing ruthless global competition. Nowadays we might have those international schools which is taught in English, but what about the people who do not afford to send their children to expensive schools?
Their ability to learn English has become uneven enough compare to the private school goers, with the use of dubbing on foreign TV programs and little chance to see English speaking movie, it will widening their distance to English.
This is my respond to no-sense regulation like dubbing system on foreign programs and the regulation plan to ban Hollywood films from movie theater.
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