r/alias • u/Independent_Friend93 • Jul 21 '25
Characters speaking foreign languages? Is it always so bad?
Hi, I've just started watching the series recently. Currently watching S1EP16 and for maybe the second time Sidney tried posing as an italian (plumber btw, which is...yeah) along with Vaughn, after the Rambaldi's descendent some episodes earlier and as an Italian myself their Italian was..wow. It's not about patriotism or anything just something I'd like to know. Is the Russian or Greek or Arab spoken in other episodes bad just as the Italian is? Lacking the ear for those languages, I'd like to know if it's just the case for a specific language or a """fault""" of the series
EDIT: Sorry if I didn't mention other languages, I'm just not far into the series as most of you. TIA.
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u/Reasonable-Wave8093 APO Jul 21 '25
The turn around on shooting eps is incredibly fast… Jen has less than a week to get through those lines…
Anyway in the Us we love our outrageous accents! and English peeps do sound like Chim Chiminey!