Survivor, Big Brother… hmmm why not combine the two, in a manner of speaking?
My idea…
Put a bunch of total strangers together in an environment like Big Brother, or Survivor, with no outside contact…
the catch: everyone in the show speaks a totally different language, and each knows/speaks only ONE language.
I think it would be fascinating to see how everyone “survives” in this situation. It would be interesting to see how the people interacted and what types of relationships would form, if any, with such a total communications barrier.
Of course, the home viewer would have the convenience of all verbal speech translated into subtitles on screen.
What do you think? That sounds like a VERY interesting situation to me. I personally would find it more entertaining than BB or Survivor. That’s quite a challenge.
Great Idea MSK. I would watch that. Throw in some activities that require teamwork and communication. Something like a scavenger hunt where the contestants would need to help each other climb trees. They could be given some tools and told to build some sort of structure, the catch would be that the instructions were written in one language with no pictures.
That is all I can think of for now. Any other ideas?
90% of my friends speak more than one language, most of them speak at least 3. My sister speaks 6 languages fluently (English, Latvian, Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese). America aside, I’d think you’d have a hard time finding uni-lingual (is that even a word?) people in this world, especially in countries (besides America) that would participate in this idea.
Maybe it’s just me, but I thought it was really weird to see Chinese and Russian athletes at the Olympics wearing jackets that say “China” or “Russia” in English. It actually really annoys me that everything is so “global” nowadays.
I, for one, think it’d either be really funny, really pathetic, or really sad (or some combination). As I didn’t get too much out of the .5 episodes of “Survivor” I forced myself to watch, I’m thinking I might not watch this show.
Depending upon some socio-religous standards, they’d probably all end up having wild sex parties. Only one language needed: the language of love.
Shouldn’t hurt the ratings!