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Aside, does anyone know of an app like Perplexity for surfing the news in a foreign language (language practice)? Perplexity's "Explore" tab translates its new

Aside, does anyone know of an app like Perplexity for surfing the news in a foreign language (language practice)? Perplexity's "Explore" tab translates its news to your local language, and its curated news items are all pretty interesting, but the problem is that there are so few of them. I seem to get maybe a dozen stories in a day. I paid their subscription for a month just to listen to the news on my walk, but didn't renew because of this. A foreign news site like BBC Mundo (Spanish) on the other hand barely has any stories outside of a few niches. Its tech section only has a few stories per week. Hmm, maybe I want a sort of RSS reader that AI-translates stories for me. But I don't really want to maintain a feed myself either. Apple News would probably do it since they also have good curation, but afaict they still don't support foreign news sources (why???).

dolmen 2y ago
Use a VPN to appear like being in the target country. Use a browser profile where you set the language preference to the one you target.
- hombre_fatal 2y ago
  For which purpose?
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diggan 2y ago
> Apple News would probably do it since they also have good curation, but afaict they still don't support foreign news sources (why???). ground.news includes sources from all sorts of countries, and also auto-translate headline and the intro, while you can still click to access the source article. Not affiliated, just happy user. Example with sources in English, German and French: https://ground.news/article/accident-on-the-a13-in-the-yvelines-the-results-and-profile-of-the-victims-of-the-collision-are-known_50ea75 https://ground.news/article/accident-on-the-a13-in-the-yveli... Although I'm not sure how useful it is for language learning, as you cannot (afaik) configure it to only display articles in Spanish or something similar, but if you filter by stories about France, you'll get a lot of French sources (obviously).

dolmen 2y ago

Use a VPN to appear like being in the target country. Use a browser profile where you set the language preference to the one you target.

hombre_fatal 2y ago
For which purpose?
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diggan 2y ago

> Apple News would probably do it since they also have good curation, but afaict they still don't support foreign news sources (why???). ground.news includes sources from all sorts of countries, and also auto-translate headline and the intro, while you can still click to access the source article. Not affiliated, just happy user. Example with sources in English, German and French: https://ground.news/article/accident-on-the-a13-in-the-yvelines-the-results-and-profile-of-the-victims-of-the-collision-are-known_50ea75 https://ground.news/article/accident-on-the-a13-in-the-yveli... Although I'm not sure how useful it is for language learning, as you cannot (afaik) configure it to only display articles in Spanish or something similar, but if you filter by stories about France, you'll get a lot of French sources (obviously).