Invite your friends to watch the new video “Finding Happiness” at mormon.org/findinghappiness.
This 6-minute video addresses the following questions: Who is our loving Creator? For what purpose did he create Man? And what is Man’s relationship to God?
You can download the video at mormon.org/findinghappiness to share with your friends or you can order a DVD of Finding Happiness at LDSCatalog.com (item number 06840090). This DVD includes 19 different languages. Each language version was filmed in the country where the language is spoken.
(Languages: Bulgarian, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukranian)
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Larry, your statement that there is a separate video for each language is not exactly accurate. Even though there are 19 different audio tracks, there are only 6 different video tracks or locations: British Isles, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Japan.
The British Isles video track is used when you select the English language.
The Chinese video track is used for both Mandarin and Cantonese languages.
The Korean video track is used for the Korean language.
The Japanese video track is used for the Japanese language.
However, for the other languages (which are European), they use either the Western Europe video track or the Eastern Europe video track. It’s not a per-country individualized video.
The English spoken on the DVD is British English by a British speaker. As an American-English speaker, it sounded kind of grating to my ear.
The Spanish spoken on the DVD is Castillian (Spain) Spanish spoken by someone from Spain, not Latin America. Again, as a speaker of Latin-American Spanish, I was uncomfortable listening to the speaker from Spain. Not that I couldn’t get used to it, but it was kind of jarring at first.
I don’t know about Mexico or Central America, but a good number of people in South America hate the Spaniards, it might not be appropriate for use in South America.
From my point of view, I would not recommend this DVD for speakers of American-English , or Latin-American Spanish.
For speakers of American-English, I would recommend the previous edition that had English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese.
I do like the content, video and narration, no problems there.
But my main complaint with this DVD is that the start-up menu where you choose your language is very difficult to figure out the first time. Now maybe this is a standard type of menu in Europe and people are used to it. But to me it took a while to figure out. It may be that I’m just naive if this menu is standard in Europe. But if that’s not the standard European way or international way of choosing a language, then I’d suggest language-selection needs to be re-done in a much simpler arrangement.
I hope the Distribution Center continues to stock the previous English/Asian edition of this, as that is the one that I favor. It’s much simmpler.B
Bookslinger,
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll pass it along to those who created the DVD.