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The notion that some people prefer dub over sub is not new, but it baffles me that it is to the level of urgent business concern. From what I see in other comments, is it an American thing?

We should invest in making people’s ear accustomed/used to hear other languages. It has great intercultural benefits.

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I'm pretty sure it's also a Russian thing.

In the case of English, the orthography is difficult, a large proportion of people are functionally illiterate, and even more have a tough enough time reading that subtitles just go by too quickly.

I have a difficult time imagining that Russian speakers prefer the dubbed content they're offered. Most of the Russian dubs I've seen have one male voice actor doing all the characters (or with an additional female voice actor doing all the female characters, if you're lucky) with no attempts at timing, emotion, or intonation. The dub track is played on top of all the other audio, instead of being properly mixed in to replace the original dialogue track.

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