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(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:10 am

Ahahaha oh my god that intro, it looks like a PMV. Great find.

I speak Spanish so I understand about 40 to 90% of what's being said, depending on a number of factors, most importantly that I watched the episode a thousand times. The translation seems to be good enough. I like Twilight's voice; Spike's, not so much. (Granny Smith's voice is exactly the same as in English, interestingly enough.) Overall, I think it's a good dub.

(?) · by **Scuderia Ferrarity** (?) » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:09 pm

Zuzie wrote: I also find it very amusing how they actually gave a voice for Lyra (I'm going to have to make this my head-canon now )

: Chow!

: good morning, Lyra!
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:crack:

: No parlare Inglese!
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:crack:

It's ironic how the original intro features early animation from around the time of the pilot while this intro takes material from all of S1.
Also how all that careful phoneme matching is jacked, while in a cheaper show, say G3, there is nowhere near the attention paid to mouth movements.
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(?) · by **Mr. Big** (?) » Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:11 pm

I'm not surprised they did a new intro for Italy. It's been a tradition for any cartoons (usually anime) imported to that country to have the theme song totally redone since the '70s.

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Tue Aug 30, 2011 6:35 pm

See, I don't speak Italian, so, all I hear is:

Sounded good, though!

(?) · by **Grilox** (?) » Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:01 pm

I know a bit of Italian. I think Applejack has a Southern Italian accent (That's the accent that when converted to english becomes 'My-a cousin Luigi') While the other characters have the much more neutral Northern Italian accent (Sounds like an average latin-based accent in english) I could be wrong though because I'm not that great at Italian. :nnngh:

Nightmare moon has a great voice in that dub though gosh. It's pretty much the same as the english one.

(?) · by **Zuzie** (?) » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:12 am

...And here's the other half of the first episode in Italian. Which introduces Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Nightmare Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_tda9VkB_g

Pinkie's VA wasn't horrid but she doesn't seem capture the general hyperness of Pinkie...

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:29 pm

I am seriously impressed by Nightmare Moon's VA. That voice is quite a piece of work.

(?) · by **diribigal** (?) » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:35 am

I don't know German, but somehow I suspect this is worse than the other linked German dub in many ways.

Click here to view video.

(?) · by **Grue** (?) » Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:21 pm

Official French dubs are being posted here . There are 3 episodes so far. Can't get over how different Twilight sounds. The opening song doesn't sound too good either. Why can't they find people who can actually sing? For example, Italian Pinkie Pie is so off-key when she sings "Giggle at the Ghosties", it's downright embarassing.

(?) · by **logicow** (?) » Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:49 am

French rainbow dash is higher pitched than pinkie pie for some reason.

Other things worth mentioning: "All the ponies in this town are CRAZY" has been translated differently between the first time, and the recap in the second episode.

And "Wonderbolts" in episode 1 vs "Flèches de l'air" in episode 3.

And pinkie pie is the element of "Dérision" which is the "making fun of someone or something, in a negative way" kind of laughter.

When referring to Rainbow Dash, Twilight says "Un pégase", spike says "Il est incroyable!",inferring that Rainbow Dash is male.

(?) · by **PonderSketch** (?) » Fri Sep 02, 2011 1:08 am

Makes you wonder what automated program they're using to translate the scripts.

(?) · by **SirTopHat** (?) » Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:16 pm

logicow wrote:French rainbow dash is higher pitched than pinkie pie for some reason.

Other things worth mentioning: "All the ponies in this town are CRAZY" has been translated differently between the first time, and the recap in the second episode.

And "Wonderbolts" in episode 1 vs "Flèches de l'air" in episode 3.

And pinkie pie is the element of "Dérision" which is the "making fun of someone or something, in a negative way" kind of laughter.

When referring to Rainbow Dash, Twilight says "Un pégase", spike says "Il est incroyable!",inferring that Rainbow Dash is male.

implying

I'm normally terrible at French but somehow I understand these well.

I liked the Italian intro, it felt like an anime. The whole thing had an anime feel, with the slightly imperfect word syncing and everything.

(?) · by **fenster** (?) » Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:07 pm

Zuzie wrote:...And here's the other half of the first episode in Italian. Which introduces Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Nightmare Moon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_tda9VkB_g

Pinkie's VA wasn't horrid but she doesn't seem capture the general hyperness of Pinkie...

I think the problem is that Pinkie's voice in the original is really High-pitched, with this dub's VA not matching makes it look really out of place because of how much Pinkie talks in a short segment.

But man, that Nightmare Moon Voicework was spot on, it was REALLY good.

I also really liked the newer Intro, I wish there would be more of them but oh well.

(?) · by **Zuzie** (?) » Sat Sep 03, 2011 2:08 am

Since it seems that The Ticket Master is the choice sample episode, here's the first part of the Italian dub for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQp_0JrMqbA

If anyone's curious, the other two episodes that make up the second half of The Mare in the Moon is also up.

Again, I don't speak Italian so I can't judge how well it's been dubbed, but I did notice that the Wonderbolts in Rainbow's imagine spot have an audible gasp, and Rarity's "YES" is softer. Minor, but that's what I noticed.

(?) · by **Kalkkis** (?) » Mon Sep 05, 2011 10:04 am

FiM DVD with Ticketmaster has made an appearance in Finland. ProtoPony has video, finnish, swedish and danish dubbing included.

(?) · by **logicow** (?) » Mon Sep 05, 2011 1:02 pm

French episodes up to The Show Stoppers are up, and, eh, I don't know.

Some of the singing voices are so different from the regular voices, fluttershy's in particular.

And the song lyrics are so different from what you would expect. Not as many rhymes.

20% Cooler turned into 20% plus chouette.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are les Chercheurs de Talents.

(?) · by **Numerosix** (?) » Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:46 pm

logicow wrote:French episodes up to The Show Stoppers are up, and, eh, I don't know.

Some of the singing voices are so different from the regular voices, fluttershy's in particular.

And the song lyrics are so different from what you would expect. Not as many rhymes.

20% Cooler turned into 20% plus chouette.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders are les Chercheurs de Talents.

"20% plus chouette"?... :facehoof:

(?) · by **stonecutter** (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2011 7:33 am

Wow, I really liked how PixieNyanChan's hebrew and LyralioRC Brazilian portugese fandubs sounded. I wish happytreegirl111 had a better microphone; the voice actors on those spanish fandubs sounded pretty good.
The official Latin American spanish dub's not too bad, but whenever I hear Applejack speak I think of La Chilindrina from El Chavo del Ocho for some reason.

By the way, the xheartlessx3 and TheMlplover videos have been taken down.

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:10 am

Thanks for the heads-up! I've sort of given up on keeping this list actively up to date; I just sort of add new things I run into these days.

LatAm Applejack doesn't sound so much like a specific character to me but more like a generic old Mexican lady for some reason. :pinkieshrug:

It's interesting how the local 'accent' depends almost exclusively on her intonational pattern more than the actual phonetics. Everyone else still sounds clearly Mexican to my ears, though growing up with the washed-down accent I'm used to it.

In other news, I just found this European Spanish clip from Boast Busters. I find the voices worse than the other Spanish dub, but then I'm probably biased. Oh, and I also found the full first ep. Even the video description disses the voice acting. :ohgawd:

And for the super-lazy browsers, here's a useful, fun and healthy video comparison of a bit from Ticket Master in 12 languages.

Click here to view video.

(?) · by **Ashenai** (?) » Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:42 am

Winter Wrap-Up in French. Pinkie's voice is way too "normal", but the other singing voices are pretty neat!

(?) · by **Zuzie** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 3:53 am

I guess I should post these since I kinda already posted links to the other italian episodes...

Episode 6 (second half of The Ticket Master)
Episode 7 (first half of Applebuck Season)
Episode 8 (second half of Applebuck Season)
Episode 9 (first half of Griffon the Brush Off)
Episode 10 (second half of Griffon the Brush Off)

Still not sure how well Big Macintosh or Gilda sounded dubbed, but it seems like Gilda uses gratuitous english and refers to Pinkie Pie as "Stinkie Pie"... or at least that's what it sounds like.

(?) · by **Grue** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:56 am

Well, the taunts (Stinkie Pie, Rainbow Crash, or any of the Bridle Gossip nicknames) are terribly difficult to translate. It doesn't help that the actual names of ponies don't sound natural in any language other than English, so it's hard to make them into some recognizable words in the target language.

(?) · by **DoodleMoogle** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:20 pm

Oh good lord, the finnish one. Applejack doesn't have an accent, Spike sounds like he's inhaled some helium and the puns that I so loved. They don't work. :smith:

(?) · by **Grue** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 8:46 pm

Oh good lord, the finnish one. Applejack doesn't have an accent, Spike sounds like he's inhaled some helium and the puns that I so loved. They don't work.

Now, this really makes no sense. From what I learned in SA Comics Megathread, Finnish is basically the perfect language for puns (see: Fingerpori). It could've been great!

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:00 pm

Grue wrote:Well, the taunts (Stinkie Pie, Rainbow Crash, or any of the Bridle Gossip nicknames) are terribly difficult to translate. It doesn't help that the actual names of ponies don't sound natural in any language other than English, so it's hard to make them into some recognizable words in the target language.

Not that they sound all that normal in English either. "Rainbow Dash." :rainbert:

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:47 pm

What he means is that "Rainbow" and "Dash" are literally just two actual nouns stuck together, and "dash" in particular is a word that rhymes with tons of others, so English puns galore. If, however, the ponies were named things like Valnf Svmeckgni, it would be harder to make puns off them in English.

(?) · by **brakeless** (?) » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:47 pm

DoodleMoogle wrote:Oh good lord, the finnish one. Applejack doesn't have an accent, Spike sounds like he's inhaled some helium and the puns that I so loved. They don't work.

For shame. She should sound like Tammerkoski flows by her orchard, and I would have bought the DVD just for that.

(?) · by **MochaBean** (?) » Tue Sep 13, 2011 3:01 am

numsOic wrote:If, however, the ponies were named things like Valnf Svmeckgni, it would be harder to make puns off them in English.

I demand a pony named Valnf Svmeckgni. :glare:

(?) · by **stonecutter** (?) » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:52 am

MochaBean wrote:
I demand a pony named Valnf Svmeckgni.

Would her/his cutie mark be a sampo?

By the way, MonsieurLeCrin has FiM up to 'Party of One', so now you can watch Madame le Flour in her native tongue.

(?) · by **DoodleMoogle** (?) » Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:02 pm

Grue wrote:Now, this really makes no sense. From what I learned in SA Comics Megathread, Finnish is basically the perfect language for puns (see: Fingerpori). It could've been great!

This is true. Finnish language has opportunities for great jokes with puns caused by different dialects and such. But hey, it's a show about ponies. Why should the dubbers give a shit? :applejargh:

(?) · by **Lusankya** (?) » Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:39 pm

Today the first German episode was broadcasted on Nickelodeon Germany.
Episode 1 Part 1
Episode 1 Part 2

After we already knew the rather bad opening, most German Bronies were surprised, that the actual dub is much better than expected.

Spike got a quite famous VA, many fans wished for. While he doesn't sound like the English Spike he does a great job.
Twilight Sparkle has a good VA as well, nothing special, but quite fitting.
Applejack doesn't have any accent, she speaks High German and uses some colloquial speech. I personally like her voice and don't care that she doesn't speak with an American accent (that usually sounds silly in German anyway).
Rainbow Dash sadly has the worst voice. It's not the way how the VA speaks her, but the fact that she sounds several years older than the other ponies.
Rarity has a great voice as I think, very fitting.
Personally I like Fluttershy's voice, I think it sounds very cute. But I heard from many German Bronies that she doesn't sound cute enough.
Pinkie Pie has a very good voice despite the fact that her style is different from the English VA.
Appleblooms voice is considered too old as well, but we only heard one sentence until now.
The other voices are all fine (Nightmare Moon's is especially liked).

(?) · by **stonecutter** (?) » Tue Sep 20, 2011 4:02 am

Gotta watch the official German dub when I can get my hands on the better laptop at home.

By the way, the Dutch FiM is up to 'Winter Wrap-Up', Italy's is up to 'Look Before You Sleep', and Spain is up to 'Boast Busters'.

Poor Spanish fans, having to hear Trixie sound like an old witch. :nngh:

(?) · by **SirTopHat** (?) » Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:13 pm

I liked the part where Twilight said nein nein nein nein nein nein

aeiou

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Tue Sep 20, 2011 1:45 pm

Did she pound the table while yelling it? :iamapony:

(?) · by **Lusankya** (?) » Wed Sep 21, 2011 4:50 pm

The German dub should catch up soon as there are 5 new episodes every week.
Here are the first three songs Pinkie Pie sings in German:

Giggle at the ghostly/Grinse wenn's dich gruselt
The Grand Galloping Gala/Die große Galloping Gala *Actually it is called "Prachtvolle Galloping Gala" in German, but she sings "große Galloping Gala" to match the rhythm.
Twilight is my bestest friend/Twilight steht als Freundin stets zu mir

(?) · by **stonecutter** (?) » Wed Oct 05, 2011 9:33 pm

The French dub of 'The Best Night Ever' has finally been posted.
Part one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpqC28P9aAw
Part two - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIbLQSbC_RI

(?) · by **Smoke** (?) » Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:43 pm

Found some more Dutch ponies:
http://www.youtube.com/user/XD1800#p/c/DA2C49584FC69B4C
Playlist of everything up to Over A Barrel and it seems to be updated regularly, most episodes are just one part.

Still a terrible dub in my view though.

(?) · by **Numerosix** (?) » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:09 pm

Here's the official page for the french version. There's some activities if you know a french kid who would be interested.

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:39 am

Just added the first six episodes of the Arabic dub to the OP. Thanks to Redeye for the tip.

Everyone who posts in the thread: I appreciate all you guys' help!

(?) · by **Lazy** (?) » Fri Oct 21, 2011 6:04 am

numsOic wrote:Just added the first six episodes of the Arabic dub to the OP. Thanks to Redeye for the tip.

Everyone who posts in the thread: I appreciate all you guys' help!

Spike's arabic VA is pretty painful, but AJ's incredibly lackluster "yeee-ha" actually made me laugh.

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