Boushh said:

Hi and thx for your reply! 😃
Pretty much everything’s subtitled in Portugal and has always been, which is really great and a lot of people from recent generations such as mine become pretty fluent in English since a young age. Nowadays kid shows tend to be dubbed, but back in the 80s many weren’t, I remember plenty of cartoons in the 80s and throughout the 90s having subtitles. Here’s evidence of one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDtjiPViRsU

That’s so amazing, I’ve heard so many horror stories about dubbing in France, Spain and a few other places. One friend told me that during the VHS era, in France, you had to go into a specialist section of video retailers if you wanted English language versions of films. Even now in the UK, dubbing has been long retired but non English language content is still relegated to arts and culture channels and late night schedules.

Boushh said:
It would be interesting to look at the science and figure out what it says about our capacity not only to read at a young age but also learn other languages. We’re not the only country in Europe doing so, Holland and Nordic countries too, off the top of my head. Personally to this day I absolutely loathe watching anything dubbed.

Indeed! One of my French pals can speak over half a dozen languages fluently, they’re the fan subbing dream! 😃

I’ve always loathed dubbing and regarded it as an affront against the viewer. A Polish friend said that for years, a small set of people provided most of the dubbing voiceovers for the stuff they saw on TV and you could immediately identify them.

Boushh said:
As for your question. I have 2 VHS tapes in Portugal at my parents place in which I’m sure the original TV broadcasts for SW, ESB and ROTJ were recorded, but I think I later recorded a rental copy over them. 😦 😦 I haven’t been there in years and as such I don’t really have the means to verify for now. The author of that blog does have them but I don’t personally know him.

Perhaps we’ll find a source at some stage, this site has made the impossible, quite possible, countless times. 😃