Hi I need advice regarding the corret use of mutiple languages in dialogue when writing the dialogue in the screenplay. If a character speaks 2 different languages in his dialogue (sentence contains both languages) is the dialogue as written in the screenplay, written in both languages as it would be spoken or is the dialogue written in English (for example) and then above the dialoge in parenthasis that the dialogue is spoken in a different language. If this is the case, how does one indicate which portion of the dialogue is spoken in the other language. If the dialogue is written in the languages as they are spoken, does one include the English mean? If so, where/how?
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I read somewhere that when you are writing a different languages, underneath the person speaking you put what language they are saying in parenthesis. Ex: Tom (Speaking in Russian) "Im not... Hope that helps.
Tks for the advice.
I am currently editing a screenplay adaptation of a novel where characters are going back and forth between two languages, that's how I'm doing it as well: CHARACTER (spoken in french) Dialgue...