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My personal rule is that I only consume news in a language I don't speak well. It's tiring, which discourages doomscrolling and the like. It tends to be less p
by mumblemumble 5y ago
My personal rule is that I only consume news in a language I don't speak well.
It's tiring, which discourages doomscrolling and the like. It tends to be less psychologically troublesome, because reporters tend to be less melodramatic about news that doesn't directly involve members of their core audience. And, even when it's crap journalism that has absolutely no other merit, it's still good language practice.
- burlesona 5y agoThat’s very interesting. Do you have any recommendations for global news coverage in languages other than English?
- trizzle21 5y agoI like the BBC foreign language news (particularly Spanish)
- jgwil2 5y agoNot OP but most Western European countries have a public broadcasting company that can be a good source (e.g. France 24 for French, DW for German) if you are learning one of those languages.
- eynsham 5y agoLe Monde diplomatique is not strictly a news publication but is a rather interesting read. It also has editions in Spanish. If you can read Chinese well enough, some of the Hong Kong press is still quite vibrant and interesting: see e.g. the Hong Kong Economic Journal and Ming Pao (that’s probably about it, alas.) There are some good public broadcasters mentioned in another reply. I’d also recommend the output of Arte (Association relative à la télévision européenne), France Culture, and France Musique. I have occasionally listened to Radio Liban 96.2 to listen to other accents but to be honest the presenters sound like they speak perfect Parisian French to me (if not the interviewees). Some of their programmes are interesting.
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- unfunco 5y agoYou could try BBC Pidgin if you only speak English. https://www.bbc.com/pidgin https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
- usefulcat 5y agoWow, I had no idea that existed. TIL.
- iamcurious 5y agoAny recommendations for italian? edit: I also asked for something international and with only titles, without images, like HN. But reading other comments, I could configure an RSS client for that. So, any news recommendations for italian?
- eafkuor 5y agohttps://www.ilpost.it https://www.ilpost.it In my humble opinion, the best Italian news website.
- AzzieElbab 5y agoThat is an interesting approach. Being a non native English speaker I sometimes feel that a lot of language games in news do not work on me. It feels a lot like what Scott Adams meant by “watching two different movies on the same screen”
- misiti3780 5y agoThis is a great idea!
- saint_angels 5y agorecommendations in simplified Chinese/Mandarin anyone?