Here is a graph showing how many visitors mininova gets from different countries:
And here is a graph containing searches on mininova for specific languages:
(languages not in the graph got even less searches)
The conclusion I take from these graphs is that French people only want to watch/play things which are french. Is this because they don’t understand English?
I really don’t understand this. I always hate it to see stuff which has voice-over in my own language. Especially comedies, it almost always ruins the jokes.
(oh and could someone translate this to French so they can also read this 
Edit: Eriks intention was not to offend French people, the post above is simply an observation of the search queries with his own opinion. Of course we do not dislike you, French people, at all Thanks for understanding - Niek
Edit: As Niek said, it was not my intention to offend the french (I don’t get why some people got offended).
I don’t know why people think this but I’m not from america and yes I have learned french at my school (long time ago so I’m not that good at it anymore).
Karine: I don’t download french movies because I can’t fully understand them if they speak to fast. I always download english stuff even though that is not my native language.
Barraka: I counted the searches which contained the word “french” and the other languages.
- Erik
I’m not from the states, I’m dutch, Amsterdam. I was talking about the frenchies I’ve met here in amsterdam and all across your country
I’m sorry ….
Excuse me ….
Les Français ont une notoriétés européennes sur le cinéma. En effet de nombreux films sont répandus dans les pays de l’Europe. Cependant, il n’y a pas énormément de films qui arrivent à être diffusé aux Etats-Unis. Je pense que c’est justement parce qu’il y a un contraste entre la diffusion des films Français dans l’Europe et aux Etats-Unis que les Français préférent avoir des films avec des voix françaises que des voix anglaises…
Dites-moi ce que vous en pensez ?
Personnelement je télécharge beaucoup de films américains avec les voix américaines. Je les regarde avec les sous titres. C’est bien mieux !
for blaat : There is a lot of people from Holland who lives in the south-east of france, and a lot of british people in the south-west. And you know what ? They’ve bought a house, and they don’t speak a word in french. Sometimes, they even have their own shops in villages where they can buy their own stuff from their own country, and where you cannot understand anything if you can’t read or speak the langage of their own storekeeper. It’s really strange for a frenchman during an holiday travel in france to find a grocery where he cannot buy anything because he cannot speak dutch. By the way, it’s normal, we are in france… No ? And obviously, french people who lives near those foreigners take them for arrogant people. As a matter of fact, we can think that is a normal reaction. But it’s also obvious that they’ve missed something important : some elementary courtesy. Everybody have to live in a foreign country as the other people of this foreign country and to integrate themselves into this country. The first step is to speak the langage of this country. Even badly. I have travelled in Italy. I speak italian. Not very well, but it’s always better to see someone smiling because you speak gibberish rather than frowning and pushing you back because you don’t speak his own langage. You tend to think that the individuals are the people of a country, whereas the people of a country are not his individuals. People, systems, individuals are three different things. And there is what you think about somebody from abroad : French are filthy and stupid, italians are thieves, english are snobbish liars, americans are fat and arrogant, etc. (that’s what is called prejudices). From my own experience, we all want a better life, justice, equality and freedom. I have some dutch, british, american and japanese friends who are living here, in france. (Japanese is a very interesting langage by the way). They speak french, and often we speak in english. Some langages appear to be more appropriate, depending on the circumstances. I prefer reading some english poetry in english, and some french poetry in french. Sometimes translation can be a “plus”. Jean Cocteau has said: “H.P. Lovecraft’s books are better in french”. (Sorry for the english speaking Chtulhu Fans) Just because the translators have done a great job removing some repetitions (HPL was paid by word) to enhance the drama effects. on the other side, i cannot see “Citizen Kane” or “Casablanca” dubbed in french. I have them in english (and i can put the subtitles on if i want). But if i can find some french movies in french, why couldn’t i take them? The subject was somewhat tendentious… it emphasizes some old antagonisms. I hope it helps some “individuals” to react as what they really are (for on time). And apologies for my bad english. I know i’m better when i speak “globbish” :)))
@bouboulenfurie: beaucoup de films de Français ? J’ai travaillé dans un videostore pour environ la moitié par année, il étais joli grand aussi, ai eu quelques films de culte aussi bien. J’ai vu le passer de films du Français environ 3-4 le long de et environ trois fois plus allemand et les films japonais. Les films français ne le font pas vraiment au delà des frontières de la France.
@Korzybski: “Colonists” are the worst kind of people, I’d have to agree on that. But then again, here in Amsterdam pretty much everyone can speak english, (horrible dialect though) where as in france, when I went to the police to report something was stolen he simply refused to speak english to me, replying: Dans la France, francais est tres bien, or something like it. And I’ve ran into that additude pretty much all over that country, it’s not something I’ve met in germany, Denmark, England, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland or Italy. that might very well be my prejudice, but it’s stll quite strange that that it was just France where I had those kind of problems..
French people learn english as anywhere in Europe. There is NO refusal of english language.
Some foreigners love to show France as a proud Country with disdain of other languages…
It’s FALSE.
End of the subject
indeed, that’s why they usually hardly know a word in any other language then their own
so no, it’s not false, their arrogance is pretty much famous by now and still they wonder why they are disliked abroad 
Blaat, you are a troll. Shut your computer down. Go outside. Have a life. Buy a brain. And… sorry to say that but you are not the center of the world. You are so narrow minded and so short sighted, the better thing you can do is to shut your mouth and throw your keyboard through the window, (and you can follow it in its fall). The day you decide to do that will be a day of worldwide peace and comprehension. But i’m sure you will come back and answer to this post with your bitterness and negative attitude. Realize that your mind is totally screwed. The only neuron left in the soup called your brain is powered by hatred and anger. Typed in english by an (positively) arrogant french guy. For the others, Peace, Unity, Love, and having fun ! ;^)
hmmm yes I kind of dislike tourists coming over here and expecting me to speak their own lame language because they lack the brains to speak more then one language
and how can one possible be positively arrogant 
a dead horse.
What surprises me is the fact that you are amazed french people look for french content lol That makes perfect sense to me. As far as I know french is used outside France : Canada, Africa, Asia and many other countries. In addition, french movie and music industries are quite healthy, so that is no surprise to me. I guess it may be a surprise for the rest of the world since because politics and economic reasons people don’t see much artistic productions besides american stuff so what they don’t see and hear does not exist or is just plain shit. Reality is quite sad.
The world is a lil bit bigger than the USA.
People in France learn and enjoy many other languages including english. They also enjoy their own language and they are proud of it which doesn’t make all of them arrogant and assholes.
I spent 6 months in USA and never met a single guy able to speak over three words in french heard in songs. I don’t think it gives me the right to go down the streets claiming no one speaks french in USA and that they’re all a bunch of lazy fat asses unable to open their mind to something else than anglo-saxon culture. I met nice people and I did my best to answer their questions about France or french or whatever.
@blaat : the only ‘lame’ language I know is stupidity and I can see you master it.
I’m French and i download a lot of stuff in english and i wait the subtitle in french.
HOLD ON…. french people… wanting to watch films in their native language?!
what a suprise!
who’d have thought it?!
As an englishman, i personally always look prefer to watch films in french.
im from Quebec in canada.. so i speak french and i can barely speak in english… but when i watch a movies in french and in english… sometime the french translation make the joke better and sometime completely ruin it… but its rare… and dont forget… AHWHAHW WE CREATE CELINE DION TO DESTROY THE WORLD NIARHGH (lool)
Vive la France et vive les français !!!
What the Hell is that Stupidest thread Ever . It started from a stupid and racist comment on the stats by some Mininova Admin. really sad about that . I’m French and feel offensed by that !
Just want to point out that , I can write in that boring English language maybe a lot better than many Americans or other English native speakers , so what ???
I wrote this comment in English so that you illiterate scums could read it in your own bloody language !
I could also write it in German, in Japanese, Chinese and even French !
So what if people want to look for French movies or French dubbed movies , people do what they want , no ?
American people NEVER import any movies from Europe, Asia , Africa … They prefer to shoot the movie again in Hollywood with their own actors . And 100% of the times , the remade movie is 1000000 times worse than the original
American film producers are pirating and pillaging world’s Movie culture and best talents in order to make $$$. They even use weird copyrights in order to kill the previous movie. For instance it was nearly impossible to buy the Japanese Ring when the US version was in the stores.
US also cut and slaughter movies, they sometimes even re-edit the movies before sending them to the world on DVDs. No matter on what the author of the movie thought, the only important thing is $$$.
They already destroyed way too many artists and products.
I know though that French bashing is popular in many English speaking countries. Maybe it’s because competition is always fierce between US , UK and France ? Not to forget Australia who want to get all our pacific islands .
France was and still is one of the greatest nations in the world and in History. No matter if Anglosaxons are happy with that or no.
The fastest production car in the World (Bugatti Veyron)is made in France even though the brand is owned by VW.
The french teams were the best in car motorsport last year too.
French and European also make the bests planes in the world, the best spacecrafts, etc … etc…
I’m sure many of you use Azureus as their Bittorrent software … Have you ever noticed the NAMES of the coders ?
Most of them are French too …
Anyway, I’m really sad Mininova turned like that !
Going to find another “best site” to look for my Torrent needs.
About the French being Arrogant , that is the most laughable thing ever said … Especially when it’s some US redneck guy saying that !
Just tell me WHAT country started a 3 year long war to fight a third world country JUST to justify the fact they cannot catch BinLaden ?
Tell me in what langugage most of the Americans travel in the World ?
They ALWAYS complain if people in a foreign country do not speak their bloody language !
They never try to learn the other languages and when they do, they often suck !
and then they complain when someone speak or write in another language …
Pas cordialement du tout ,
Q…
BG Qing
You can say exactly what you want in english because most things come from english and there isn’t an equivalent in french. Therefore, dubbing will wreck some films because you’re not conveying exactly what you want - but that’s not our loss is it really? It’s true, why should everyone be expected to speak english? Because of the above reason perhaps it is useful, but if the french prefer french films (which from the ones i’ve watched are well weird!) or dubbed films, then let them - english might be a more widely used international language but that doesn’t mean it’s the *right* language by any means. I think english is only so popular because of america and hollywood - if france had colonised north america and the economy was the same then maybe french would be the international language and the roles would be reversed - I would hate been *forced* to speak a language and foreigners who go and live in france should speak french and stop being so arrogant. I kinda wish esperanto or some other non-bias international language was used - then we’d all be in the same boat!
peut etre que le francais est moins parlé que l’anglais mais…
1. le chinois est la langue la plus parlée
2. le francais est de plus en plus parlé en afrique et surtout dans le maghreb
donc la francophonie prepare son petit coup de jarnac aux ricains et autres…
comment?
comme ca:
dans une centaine d’annee l’anglais aura été completement transformé de par sa trop forte implication dans le monde.
tandis que le francais aura gardé toute sa substance.
et chaque mot francais aura gardé sa signification originelle. peu seront associés a je ne sais quelle marque, je ne sais quel slogan debile, ce qui ne sera pas le cas de l’anglais
reduit alors a son argot le plus lamentable…
lol
tout le monde le parlera, l’anglais,
mais surtout pour enchainer onomatopees, insultes et coquilles de langages… et cela avec moultes fautes d’orthographe et simplifications consternantes
et tout cela ce ne sera que dans 100 ans
je ne m’aventurerais pas a voir plus loin, mais je serais anglosaxon et fier de ma langue, je me sentirais inquiet de voir avec quel laisser-aller, la reforme de l’orthographe anglaise se fait insidieusement dans le sens d’un appauvrissement.
oui il y a plus de gens qui parlent anglais que de gens qui parlent francais
mais cela ne veut pas dire qu’il y a moins de gens qui parlent francais.
il y a egalement de plus en plus de gens qui parlent francais de par le monde.
seulement le francais, contrairement à l’anglais, est une langue qui n’admet pas la moindre approximation.
ainsi dans de nombreuses années le “francais actuel” sera bien plus présent que l’”anglais actuel”.
Non mais c’est pas vrai! I can’t believe Erik’s conclusion “from these graphs is that French people only want to watch/play things which are french. Is this because they don’t understand English?” I can’t help but conclude that sadly many (but fortunately not all) Americans can’t seem to understand why French people would prefer to speak French over any other language because it is their native tongue, Italian people would prefer to speak Italian over any other language because it is there native tongue, etc, etc. Let me guess, when you travel outside the US, you expect everyone to speak to you in English… Buddy, there is a world out there that is not american!
I consider myself fortunate that I can speak 3 languages (and wished I knew more) and can therefore converse with many people around the globe to try to understand things from their perspective.
And yes, I do frequently enough search for items in different languages — question of expanding my horizons. It’s neat to listen to German, Russian or Scandinavian rock bands!
So Erik, do tell me, why do you prefer to watch movies in English?
Ziva pitoyable ricains… Va niquer ta mère!!! Là je pense que t’auras du mal à trouver la traduction, Bolloss’!!! La tepu qui sait pas parler deux langues c’est toi! Nous nous sommes capable de parler français, anglais, le language des citées… Ben oui, et personnellement moi le créole et l’espagnol ce qui m’en fait cinq alors que toi tu t’arrêtes à ton anglais…. Bref, if you want to know what I am, search “dans le boule à ta romda au fond à gauche”!
criss d’ostis d’anglais à Marde… toujours la pour faire chier… je parle parfaitement l’anglais comme tous les canadiens… yen a tu un calisse qui parle francais aux states… jpense pas. Do you know that everyone from Quebec speaks and understands english. We’re 7 millions people from Quebec against 23 millions english Canadians and about 300 millions of american people. It’s normal that we all learn english. So I don’t think that these stats represent french canadien searches but probably french people from france cuz they their english teachers suck there….
I don’t know why, when you search “french” now, the latest results are 26 sept results.
Works good with another search.
And if you let me give my explanation, I’ll tell you that most of time, in france, we keep the original title of the movie, in english. So we have to search “french” content, specifically. I think it’s different in germany, italy or spain. Mayve I am wrong. Of course english speakers don’t search “english” content, as almost all is in english.
Wrong! French people are ignorant, criminal people who only like French stuff. I am a Scot, and I had that experience. They always dislike the culture of a native place. Only Napoleon is an exception. They like to controll other cultures and destroy them. See what they did to the Africans, or the Indochinans, or to us in the XVIth Sentury. They are ignorants. The Nazis should’ve killed the French, instead of the Jews. They are criminals, and they should get burnt because of everything they’ve done, even for their own existence. They are no more worthy than to suffer. I spit at them.
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eh “caisfran”, je t’emmerde enculé! pourquoi tu m’insultes de caillera du dimanche? es-tu rasciste, veux-tu nettoyer les cités avec un karcher??? l’imbecile c’est toi, je te pisse au cul fils de pute, voilà une réplique de caillera!
If i trust what i have just been reading on this page Einstein was true : “there are 2 things that are unbounded : human stupidity and the universe … and for universe there is still a doubt” (sorry for the bad translation). How all these people can lose their time in writing and reading such bullshit (in fact i have an idea, i just did it :)).
well now lets try to find a bittorent file for “bad taste” (Peter Jackson) in english subtitled in french. Can’t find it? in fact it’s the same thing for almost every movie. on this basis you’ll see that if you are french and want to understand a downloaded picture, you’ll have to see it in french because there is no way to find the subtitled version. So yes most french people do want to see movies in french but even if you want to see it with the french subtitles (like me), you can’t find it.
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What ever is said about the French there’s one cultural feat of skill which is proper to us: how to sit our ass on two opposit chairs at the same time.
We love equality when it comes to sharing other people’s money; liberty is for the correct ones; as for brotherhood it may be the only concept which is constant: colonization,
humanitarian mission, sharing drinking water thanks to our nuclear know-how and a shitload of other examples that may bounce back on our head of these days…
I think I didn’t understand correctly the objet of the blog.
I thought it was linked with the concept of “French cultural exception or French cultural uniqueness.”
Put me on the right track to carry on. Thank you
C’ est peut être aussi parce que notre langue déchire tellement qu’ on veut pas ce pourir la tête … en plus fonce’dé c’ est trop dur pour nos cerveaux bien remplie… ^^ Au dela de ce petit commentaire je serais curieux de savoir combien de ricain et d’ anglais feraient ce type de recherche si holywood était à Marseille … cqfd
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Eriks c’mon you musst suck the dick auf you’r grand father
And sodomise me after that you are sooooo a son of a bitch Eriks
Moi je suis citoyen du monde. J’aimes toutes les langues vivantes.
Le francais est ma langue préférée, meme s’il y a trop de regles. on dit souvent que je suis l’arriere l’arriere petit fils de Voltaire, tellement je suis fou d’amour de langue francaise.
What about english? I have learned english for only one reason, because it is a commercial language. With that language i can make my bread and butter.
What about spanish?
la langua español es un idioma de amor. Yo uso el encanto a las niñas, sus fantasías.