flaccid cock is also pretty funny tho

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The way he? said it 😂

@@BM-13_KATYUSHA He/She: "Radowid is an old whore"

Jacek Rozenek 🥵🥵🥵

Now try to see Johny Silverhand in polish

@@MrKOLCOO I will explode in a puddle of fluids

because only in polish language Geralt has some emotions

Because in Polish the actor doesn't try to do that stupid cool guy batman voice

You mean it's a bad translation? Just trying to understand what you mean

@@HarpoonTheWhaler It is impossible to translate some of the linguistic errors that peasants make because they are characteristic of the Polish language. Apart from that, they use many archaisms, words which were used by peasants and the low-born due to the fact that they had a low vocabulary, etc. For example, at the beginning the peasant said that the monster has a forked tail and its actual name in Polish is widłogon, in English both names are forktail, in Polish he used the adjective widłowy which can be translated as if its tail is made of forks, I hope that however you understand my statement. Apart from that, a lot of slogans are typical for Poland and will be understood by Poles because they refer to literature, art, cinematography, folk sayings and beliefs.

@@majeranek1336 Thank you for that.

​@@majeranek1336 I don't think this is the major issue here. These are dubtitles. they are just copied from the english dub, so they never attempt to be a faithful translation of the polish audio. I still have to find out which one is the original language dub.

@@hexcodeff6624 Did you just said that polish dubbing is a copy of english one?

Elf z cebulą dobry jak pomidor

najlepszy tekst z 1 części gry (no może obok powitania Baraniny) 😂

@@Failawen ale to jest z Wiedźmina 2 w Flotsam

@@shadowlord1859 eeee, nie?

@@Failawen ten tekst jest z Wiedźmina 2 "-Jesteś wolna? -Nie, zapierdalam jak dyliżans" można usłyszeć ten tekst w Flotsam w dokach ma ten dialog między dwoma NPC kilka wersji

Tylko Polak może powiedzieć coś takiego będąc pełnym emocji

Uwielbiam!!

Im Czech but I understand most of it and that makes me happy.

Hi Vesemir

idk waht ur sayin... pam pa ram pam pam pa ram

Try listening to it while slightly drunk. I've found out that slavic languages are easily mutually intelligible when both parties of conversation are inebriated. I've tested this with Czechs, Slovaks, Croats and Serbs (I'm Polish, BTW), and after a couple of rounds in we could have great conversations where each spoke their language and we all understood one another. 😁

@@marcinpawelw wow, definitely will try that out!

@@marcinpawelw My friend had a good conversation with a french guy, my friend was speaking english (He barely speaks it) and the french guy was speaking russian (he barely speaks it too). They managed to discuss some really deep topics. They were both drunk, so I guess booze really does increase you speaking abilities. Oh and I also understood most of the slurs in this video with some occasional regular words (Im russian)

Yeah, we think Chech is very funny too.

@@marcinpawelw Vodka is the universal Slavic translator? Interesting...

Also, English Geralt sounds like Christan Bale as Batman

​@@papej3290yeah, too edgy

And Polish Geralt has natural deep voice.

True

You play it because of the easter eggs from Polish culture, movies, books, songs or even historic events I play it because the Poish voiceover is simply superior to English and it is damn funny because I'm Czech We are not the same

Sapkowski to Andrzej, a Rozenek nazywa się Jacek.

@@Daw.D zawsze mylę tego Rozenka z tym politykiem xd

To Jacek Rozenek gra Geralta. Andrzej Rozenek to polityk 🙃

Wez zedytuj ten post. Jaki Andrzej​@@krupniok2007

i am from slovakia, so i understand polish perfectly, baron gave me and my dad laughts too

I was surprised to know, that main voiceover was English. Polish would be better IMO.

@@kirillfilimonov8583Why were you surprised?

@@JackAndP Perhaps, because it is a Polish game?

@@kirillfilimonov8583 And Rockstar games was originally a British company, yet almost every single one of their games takes place in America. Don’t matter where you’re from, you can make the game however you like. Besides, English is the most spoken language in the world if we’re counting 1st and 2nd language.

polish geralt is "just a guy who happens to have a low voice", not the other way around like the english dub

This is the reason I love russian voice acting and dialogues for this game. In english a lot of details were skipped, while in russian (And other slavic languages, I suppose) they translated it as close to the original as possible. Im sure a lot of details were also missed, but our languages and cultures are a lot closer, so its easier to translate. Even with the sentence that you took as an example, all of the details are there in the russian version.

@@drefs3035 They have skipped or modified the English dialogue in this game and other video games because of the ESRB ratings and various other bigoted pudibonderies.

The firs word you're looking for is "innkeeper". The alcohol is caramel-flavoured vodka, no idea if it's got any particular name in English though.

​@@drefs3035 This is a polish game, not some Russian scum

Yeah you can translate "chuj" as you want - dick, prick, literally anything, but it will never give the same power

In Polish it's more like "Lambert, Lambert, you dick"

In polish it is: lambert lambert ty chuju. Chuj -> dick/ fucktard / idiot

​@@wildmind1986"Lambert, Lambert, ty chuju."

​@@wildmind1986well prick and dick are synonyms so...

From what I remember, in the books Yen also calls Ciri "her daughter".

As a Slav, I am sad that I don't understand shit, guess I gotta start learning Polish now as well

Did you enjoy it?

No

@@Hananiah70 cool

​@@Hananiah70 ...

That's right

As a French I assure you the French voice acting is perfect

go for it! if u enjoy the witcher universe, u wont regret

can sound hard at first glance but actually once you realize the most widely used principles then it gonna be a lot easier - Like learning Dutch, which at first glance sounds like some super - hard language when you try to distinguish words one from another but once you'll realise that "Khey" sound is a simple G, then you can see that's simplified version of German language even easier to learn. Similar story with Polish.

That's one good reason. :D

Really?​@@fenrisbutcher7343

You dont have to do that. They put a lot of effort into adapting the books approved byt the author and games.

Thank you for roasting netflix's series, it always makes my day when someone does that so I don't have to 🤝

@@Michal235 that makes two of us ;)

Yes. I once tried to translate Rocco's monologue from "Boondock Saints" into Polish and it turned out that I'd have to change Connor's reaction to "Well, that is a rich vocabulary".

It's such a shame that the English dubbing clearly influenced Netflix witcher's way of speaking too. Making him sound and act like that is changing an important part of the character imho. I remember watching a video detailing differences between MCU (normal people being heroes) and DCU (gods, myths, heroes, more as symbols than as humans), and it seems like Geralt should be in the MCU part of the equation (please disregard all yhe recent MCU failings, and I mean it metaphorically anyway), but they're trying to push him to DCU and steal his humanity. Make him scary and intimidating to us, instead of scary and intimidating to some prejudiced people and relatable/human to us and everyone else.

Doug Cockle is great, but I have to agree. I think the audiobook Geralt is the best English Geralt, just because it isn't too gruff.

I love the Polish Geralt. The English VA sounds like he's doing a crappy Nolan Batman impression and is way too monotone. And the "witchers don't feel emotions" excuse is stupid, because even the author realized how dumb and boring it made Geralt and retconned it into being a false rumor Geralt spreads for the lulz. The best showcase for Polish VA's superiour acting skills is the Hearts of Stone party with Geralt getting possessed by Witold. He changes his demeanor completely and it feels like a different person is piloting Geralt. The English VA is struggling to maintain his gravely voice while trying to play a different character. Another is the flirting with the bank clerk in Toussant. The Polish VA can actually act playful, while the English VA is monotone.

you can really feel the difference in the hearts of stone when Geralt becomes possesed. in english dub there's virtually no difference between just Geralt and Vlodimir while in polish they are obviously two VERY different people, and the way pan Rozenek plays it off is just brilliant.

@@tymondabrowski12It’s not a fucking dub. English is the original language for the game.

Well, in polish "daughter" means "córka" and Yen says "córeczko" which is a diminutive of the word "córka" which does not exist in the english language. Maybe that could be the reason.

@@itsgonnabeokay9341Could've said ''little/lil daughter'' in my opinion. I know that the translation cannot always be 100% accurate to what they say so the flow is ''better'' yet i personally prefer translations that are slightly more ''wonky'' but keep most important meaning. Yen calling Ciri ''córeczka'' in books is literally one (if not the most) important moment in their mother - daughter relationship.

@@wiktoriajedrzejewska7287 "Lil daughter" sounds like a black rapper dropping a new album. It's idiotic. "Daughter" captures the meaning and the value correctly. It's not like there was a transition from "daughter" to "little daughter", she called her "córeczko", because it sounds natural in Polish. You start adding "little" everytime you say "daughter" in English and it sounds like a cheap google translate work. Edit: If you wanted to translate the sentence "Córeczko, ależ ty wypiękniałaś", the easiest way would be for her to say "My beautiful daughter". The translators placed emphasis not on the "daughter" part, but the "you've grown beautiful" part. Translations are always about the give and take.

​@@TrykusMykusHow about "dear daughter". It adds as many syllables.

I'm Polish and I only played the Polish version, the fact that Yen doesn't call Ciri her daughter in the English version is CRAZY for me because it's a very important moment for them considering the books

English Geralt is just batman voice basically

That's not true at all. The English accents are from local British accents mainly with Skelligs accents Northern Irish. They don't sound like typical actor voices like you get in most games, they sound like regular lower class people you meet in a pub. There are also the upper class accents used by the wealthy people in the game. Obviously CDPR went out of their way to have common accents with local flair. A bit like game of thrones?

@@mrheck5311 No idea what accents have to do with this but go on

@@d4n737 you said the Polish voice actors sound like people who live in those places while the English voice actors sound like "actors playing fantasy characters". That's plainly wrong!

@@mrheck5311 That has literally nothing to do with accents they use. What I said is they sound NATURAL. It's about their acting style, not their accents. I don't care about their phonetic way of speaking, that's setdressing. My point was that english actors line delivery is a stereotypical "Halt adventurer, we need your help" while the Polish voices ooze with character and sound like people you could meet in some backwater village.

That will be such WTF feeling for me as a Czech, hearing cz dub in game after like 17 years when i first heard Mafia 1 :D

There is Czech dub for 1, should also be for 2

@@kaytas_ the 1. is just fan made

@@jakub7777 no, it's official now, even Dan Vavra the director has a role

@@mtjnovk yea, but i mean 2 will have dedicated dubbing, 1. was more or less fan made

It's also not just "daughter". "Daughter" is "Córka" (tsoorkha), but Yen uses "Córeczka" (tsooretchkha), which is the female equivalent of "sonny". It's filled with so much love and affection, which the simple "daughter" just cannot convey in the English language.

noooo please explain

​@@gracchen2500 It’s not easy so no woder you didn’t get an answer but I will give you a few examples. First of all, the translators ofc had to choose balance between a literal translation and keeping the meaning. They went more for the second one, which is a better choice but still they had to lose something. To that there are words in Polish that just can’t be accurately translated. Lambert says „…jak się nachlał prał mnie i matkę do krwi” which is translated to „he’d knock a few back, then beat me and mom bloody”. The closest literal translation would be „when he got drunk, he beat me and my mom to blood” but still not really. „Nachlał” if I translate correctly is a past, singular, male form of transitive version of verb „chlać”. „Chlać” means getting drunk but „pić” can also means that. „Chlać” is more, it’s a word almost solely used for the worst version of drinking, it implies more problems and less control in the person that’s doing that than just getting drunk. It’s the same with „prał” which is a form of „prać” that in this context means beating up (maybe beating down fits more) but „bić” also means that. "Prać" again implies a stronger version, more brutal, longer lasting, more furious. Beating to a pulp fits better but it's not a 1 word. Having those meanings in singular words condenses their power. At the end „pierdolę takie przeznaczenie” is translated to „I say fuck that kinda destiny”. It’s the best way to translate but it again is losing. Literal would be „I fuck such destiny” but both don’t fit 100% as this one is too shallow. In „pierdolę” it also helps there’s „r” in it which in Polish makes a different sound than English „r” and it allows to prolong it and get more into it to show rage than a soft sounding fuck.

@@xFurashuxthis is a beautiful explanation. I wish I’d learned Polish, wonder if I still can.

@@sbraypaynt thanks. It's never too late but ofc some factors like age and known languages matters in how hard it would be for you.

@@xFurashux Being Macedonian I fully understand the meaning of "jak się nachlał prał mnie i matkę do krwi", we have the same phrases in our language, but your explanation helped to understand which ones they are. I'm currently learning Spanish, but I want to learn Polish so bad, it seems like such an interesting language to. I hope I get the chance to learn it in the near future and hopefully move there to try to use it a little bit. I hope since both are Slavic languages I have an advantage in the learning, as it truly is such a fun language. After that I will try this game in Polish, even though I love the English voice actor a lot. Overall the whole setting of the Witcher is so good in my opinion because I can see the closeness between the Slavic cultures, and there is no other mainstream piece of media which is in a setting quite like this.

You can play it with English subtitles

@@KupiecKorzenny_EmhyrVarEmreis I'm dyslexic. I can't read fast enough

@@KupiecKorzenny_EmhyrVarEmreis No, subtitles doesn't give 1/10 of Polish mental-ilty.

im polish but half of my family lives in uk, i understand both languages on simmilar level and i 1000% prefer the polish version, it encapsulates the vibe of polish countryside and somehow feels like listening to relatives talk late at night around the campfire, with you as a child listening to them talk about all sorts of complicated stuff and you were just there makeing up stories to try to understand the adult world and what they are talking about

As Poles have not conquered so many countries, they do not have so many accents. However, there are differences, though more than in accent they are in sentence construction, words used, speed of words spoken. Well, and linguistic errors. The Polish version does a great job of conveying whether someone is educated or not. Whether someone is a fighter or a scholar. In addition, Geralt is able to get along with everyone, speaking to simple people in such a way that they simultaneously understand what he is saying, but do not understand his intelligent irony.

I remember getting whiplash hearing english Vesemir honestly

Obviously you’re biased to your own language 🤣 English way better

Wow... the double edged Blade of commenting strikes again. Did you even read my first sentence?

@@mikeyb0121 to be honest. He understands both polish and english, people that are native english speakers cant understand anything beside kurwa and names of characters so how they are supposed to say if polish is good or no (u can only say if it sounds cool and cmon its not about how actor sounds (beside english geralt its completly missed and its the worst pick of voice actor in history of video games it only sounds badass in trailers in game its just awkward)).. So if u want anyone opinion on any translation you always want to ask someone that understand both. Also Witcher was written in polish and there is a lot of comments if u want u can read about them i wont copy them here, that talks how many scenes lost most of the charm and strenght. I find polish version atleast 1.5 if not 2 times better the only thing i like in english ver is accents that show more difference in regions (polish used very similar trick because they change the way of speaking what makes velen npc sound 100 times better (they use a lot of words that people dont use for like 200 years but people still know what they mean like "drzewiej" but i like english skellige more than polish one) but main npc, velen npc, they dont come close to polish version geralt sounds horrible same as vesemir. But i have to say if u say polish isnt better in w3 u are coping brother its game about fucking pagans and slavs u dont have half of the words in english to even make correct translation, same as cyberpunk is much much much better in english because u dont have all those street/gang slang in polish and always then i play english witcher or polish cyberpunk i just see where they dont have correct translation and its just awkward.

@@mikeyb0121how is it better? Explain

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😂😂😂

Probably to keep consistency with the books that were already translated. And the books had no reason to translate "Ciri" to anything. But then in dubbing it turned out that Ciri is read differently by an English speaker. Note that they use Dandelion instead of Jaskier and Roach instead of original Płotka or an imho better translation Minnow (small fish, means "small fry" sometimes, doesn't sound nasty. The original actually sounds a bit cute, which is the opposite of Roach).

@tymondabrowski12 read differently by an English speaker 😆😅. English is the least phonetic language i know. You have such words like, for example, choir, cliche, or Nike, that broke all the reading rules. So, you might just read Ciri like Tsiri. No one would have complained. About the adaptation of some names. I don't understand this decision too, but it's another topic

Now gonna sound like a nerd. But acrual reason that its wrotten ciri in both languages, but in polish you always pronous c as ts. Thats whynin polish you hear tsiri. But tsiri looks weird so they didnt change it on english version, so it is how it is.

@danjerzyzacharows2816 as i said before, they could leave "Ciri" but pronounce it like Tsiri. It's not a rare occasion in English. Just look at the words "choir" or "croissants"

And what about Witcher 2?

Try sekiro and ghost of tsushima in japanese

What about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in Ukrainian and Russian?

@@vipahxxx7640 metro too

Ghost of Tsushima in Japanese

Xd award for logic goes to:

English is still more iconic and has way more different type of voices and dialects

@@jans6271what a bs u talking English is trash compared to pl version

Funny because in Witcher 1 the actor had a much more natural tone of voice. Still low but he actually sounded like a human being. Now it sounds almost like a parody...

No, it is not because of a low pitch. It is just emotionless, flat, like an automaton, not like a human. It would be absolutely the same with a higher pitch. For some reason EN director decided, that Geralt is a meat robot, although not only books, but the game itself shows, that he is not. For example RU VA of Geralt, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, has a low pitched voice too, actually on par with Doug Cockle, but he wasn't voice acting it like an android ASMR xD I can understand all three languages fine (EN, PL, RU, though PL a bit worse), and for me EN voiceover is no-no, while PL and RU are on par. Sometimes RU for me is better, as I understand it better, sometimes PL - because, well Polish fits + scenes were directed with PL and EN in mind. RU had a big f-up with insane speed ups and slow downs to fit timings of some scenes, it was really bad before they adjusted it. Then it became just bad xD

And what is your mothertongue? Protože jestli je to čeština, tak jasně píšu že český dabing Zaklínače 1 je legendární, ikdyž Geralt zní dost mechanicky.

Najpiękniejsza growa przygoda jaką przeżyłem. Gdy ukończyłem W3 wraz z dodatkami, zapytałem się siebie czy jest jeszcze coś, w co warto zagrać? Z jednej strony wielka radość z przeżytej przygody, z drugiej ogromny smutek, że się skończyła...

No

TAK

you agree or not? Because "no" also means "yes" in polish.@@Hananiah70

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Yep, when i first heard Geralt in english i got a bit dissapointed, it just didnt match at all. the voice of Geralt sounded like a teenager and was so forced, unnatural. While in native language its a normal man's voice. Good thing i played whole thing in polish (totally not like im polish myself)

Ale wiesz, że polski jest oryginałem?

@@mrlucky9157 w przypadku 3 części z tego co wiem to wpierw powstała wersja ENG, dopiero potem PL

@@retdett_8528 No to radzę zmienić informatora. Nawet ostatnio wyszedł odcinek Answered podcast 5 w który gadają o lokalizacji.

​@@retdett_8528 nie, wersja pol jest pierwotną

Sometimes i love being czech just because i understood like two thirds of that and all of it was the swears.

@@hujan1744 😉

Original is always the best :)

Nope. They sound normal. But in fact when I think about it sometimes Nilfgardians (mostly side dialogs) speak with a little German accent when they speak in their language.

We don't really have accents (though someone mentioned how peasants and nobles speak differently, which I guess is true, but they also use different language and whatnot). There are a few dialects or very related languages like Kashubian and Silesian, but they could've been difficult to understand; and other than that, and maybe mountaineers type of speaking, there is also an eastern/small villages type of speaking. But overall we're pretty much all mixed up into a homogenous accent. That's mostly due to wars and displacements. Situation in 18th century was probably different.

@@mrlucky9157 I thought the original was english, despite CDPR and the book being polish and all. But yeah I agree! Original is always best!

@@bouzzard4871 Then I guess I'm gonna blow your mind with this one. Cyberpunk 2077 original language is also Polish.

J'ai découvert en français XD Après le polonais pourrait être deuxième :o

why be negative, mon

Still made English first.

@@martiananomaly well, that’s what the international market demands.

​@@martiananomalyNo, it wasn't. The first two games were made first in Polish and the third was made at the same time as english.

Motion capture was done in English ​@@MultiKamil97

​@@itdobelikedattho8112 wasn't it done in both? At least the face animations, I think I've heard that they just did it twice. But then, motion capture is not writing.

One of the spots where english conveys the message just as well if not better. :D

Naaah, english voices are fine, but dialogs itself are much better in Polish.. punch lines exclusively

But what is even the reason for accents to be there?

To distinguish between regions in a way comparable to our own world's variety. I really needed to explain that?

​@@TheSuperQuail You may not hear it but there are accents even in Polish voice over. Peasants speak differently just like nobles. We have many dialects in Poland.

@@TheSuperQuail Acting like these can't be found in the Polish VO. Don't talk about things you don't know about.

www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/3092 But there's a newer version www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/8398

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