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Unlike the information for movies, series' languages other than the primary one are often not listed on IMDb so this list, so far, largely reflects either series that I know well or research outside of IMDb's site. Please suggest other series that you know of that use more than one language. Thank you so much!
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For Homeland, I found Persian listed for 8 episodes. I didn't find Dutch or Hindi listed, though of course IMDb's data may be incomplete.
For The Blacklist, I didn't find Ukrainian listed, but I found Russian listed for 13 episodes. I haven't watched the show. Maybe someone else can help clear this up.
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(I know Dutch and Hindi were spoken on Homeland, although not much, but I don't know about Ukrainian for The Blacklist so I'm thinking that I'll remove it since it's not on IMDb and I can't confirm it, either.)
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FYC: The Tunnel in English and French, as it happens in both countries and has a cast of both countries.
I have never seen it, but My guess would be that the series in which is based Bron/Broen, would also be multilingual (Danish/Swedish).
My father says Combat! was spoken in English and German.
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Pencho, I didn't add Combat! (at least not yet) because I'm getting so many suggestions that I'm trying to save room for more contemporary series. If I end up still having room, though, I will certainly add it.
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The Man in the High Castle (TV Series: 2015–2019) Language: English | Hebrew | German | Japanese
Counterpart (TV Series: 2017–2019) Language: English | German
The Bridge (TV Series: 2013–2014) Language: English | Spanish
Lilyhammer (TV Series: 2012–2014) Language: Norwegian | English | Portuguese | Lithuanian | Nepali | Arabic
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I'm going to throw Messiah (2020) out there FYC, despite it's cancellation after 1 season.
It was an excellent show with a strong cast that was cancelled SOLELY because of pressure from religious fanatics.
I think it at least deserves a 'nod' by being included on the list, if you have space.
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The show is set entirely in the present day, not in 30 A.D; so I highly doubt Aramaic was spoken :)
The languages I recall recognising were English, Arabic & Hebrew.
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The Sopranos (1999-2007)
English, Italian, Russian
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"Arrow" (2012-2020) - English, Greek, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese at the very least (I might have forgotten something).
"Gotham" (2014-2019) - English, Russian, Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic.
"DC's Legends of Tomorrow" (2016-) - English, Ancient Egyptian, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, French, Latin at the very least, again.
"Constantine" (2014) - English, Aramaic, Latin, Spanish, Hebrew.
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My favorite is rather idiosyncratic use of Ancient Egyptian on "Legends": despite there were at least three characters in the first season whose mother tongue is exactly that, it got used more lately as John Constantine's spells than it ever was by those three. :)
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I've never seen "Constantine" but I'm guessing John Constantine is the titular character in the show so does that mean that I can add ancient Egyptian to the languages spoken on that series?
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Amazingly, "Legends" actually try as much as they can to maintain continuity with "Constantine", spells included.
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Hungarian is such a fascinating language: for one, it's far away from other languages like it. I can't speak a single word of Hungarian but it intrigues me.
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Also FYC:
Mr. Robot It is mostly English, but Martin Wällstrom and Stephanie Corneliusen speak between them in Danish and Sweden in their scenes together as husband and wife.
Heroes At least in season 1, which is the one I saw, there were two Japanese characters that had all their dialogues in that language.
The list may grow a lot, so I would suggest you consider only series were both languages are important in the series as a whole, and not just in a few episodes or a few dialogues.
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I already deleted one for the reason that you cited (Peter told me that the 2017 version of 'Twin Peaks' had only a few words of a second language) so maybe (and hopefully) I'll get more information like that because that would be ideal.
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From those I seen, I don't think La casa de papel used other languages appart from Spanish except in really few parts. I didn't see the last seasons.
From the same creator there's another series, White Lines, which apparently is spoken in both English and Spanish, (70% / 30% according to this source) https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/white-lines-netflix
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"La casa de papel" is fine: it has a good bit of two languages (English and Spanish) and that's all that's needed. Also, even if there's only a bit of other languages, that still counts for me. For example, while there is a lot of Spanish and English in "Orange is the New Black" and a fair amount of Russian, there are just a few words of Twi spoken and it's not translated with captions, so the vast majority of the audience has no idea what is being said, but its impact is very strong: the woman speaking it is completely helpless, locked in a detention center with guards who won't get translators so she can't even communicate with anyone. It's powerful.
I omitted the 2017 "Twin Peaks" because there were only a few words of French but, in that case, there were no other languages spoken besides English and the French was merely ornamental.
With series with several languages, it is also prohibitive to do the amount of research necessary to know how the languages function in the shows. Often that information can't be found anywhere so I'd have to watch all of those series. The question of the poll doesn't require it anyway because that is the question.
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- Band of Brothers: English, Dutch, French, German, Lithuanian
- Spartacus: Gods of the Arena: English, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
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It's interesting to see another show to use Aramaic. "Constantine" had it featured as a language angels speak originally. :)
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"Twin Peaks" (1990) because no new episodes were created after 2000
"Twin Peaks" (2017) because there were only a few words of a second language
"Combat!" because no new episodes were created after 2000
"George Lopez" because, at 6.5, its rating did not meet the minimum criteria of a 7.0 rating
For various reasons, I'm sorry that I had to delete these, especially the three older series that probably broke some ground in TV by using more than one language.
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