No more bad accents, stereotypes or cringe: why the rise of multilingual TV is good news for everyone

By César Albarrán-Torres, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology

As one of billions of bilingual individuals in the world, it disappoints me when a film or TV show with characters of a non-English-speaking background is spoken entirely in English. This is specially the case when the production has been distributed globally.

It is even more disappointing – borderline insulting – when the lines are delivered by a native English speaker in a fake, over-the-top…

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