Dialogue: Foreign Languages

by T. J. Alex

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A screenplay writer doesn't need to know how to speak a foreign language in order to write foreign language dialogue. He or she just needs to know how to format the dialogue so the reader knows that the dialogue is in a foreign language, and if that dialogue will be subtitled.

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A screenplay writer doesn't need to know how to speak a foreign language in order to write foreign language dialogue. He or she just needs to know how to format the dialogue so the reader knows that the dialogue is in a foreign language, and if that dialogue will be subtitled.

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