delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7178 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German
| Message 1 of 9 16 December 2009 at 3:17am | IP Logged |
Hi I was once directed to a website that had news articals in many languages every day. Suddenly I can't find it. I know it's a vague question but does anyone know what site I might be talking about. I find parallel texts great for learning a foreign language. Having a parallel text in a digital format is even better as sentences can be put directly into supermemo/anki.
Also I thought it might be good to make a list for all websites that offer parallel texts and offer a quick review of the site.
Here's a couple to start with.
http://www.unmultimedia.org
The UN site is obviously a good resource very thorough but only for advanced learners learning one of the worlds 'big' languages. There's also audio with the texts I found parallel texts in Chinese and English though it seemed that for other languages the same parallel text was not available. I'm currently learning Chinese, Esperanto and German so on this website i'm only good for one language.
http://gloss.lingnet.org/
This is/was a good site but the website doesn't come up any more. Is there a problem with the site or is it that i'm surfing the web in China?
Edited by delectric on 16 December 2009 at 3:19am
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delectric Diglot Senior Member China Joined 7178 days ago 608 posts - 733 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: German
| Message 2 of 9 16 December 2009 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
Found the site. This site is great it has topical writings in a number of languages.
www.project-syndicate.org
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Kubelek Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland chomikuj.pl/Kuba_wal Joined 6849 days ago 415 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC2, French, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 3 of 9 16 December 2009 at 6:20am | IP Logged |
I appreciate it.
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7143 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 4 of 9 16 December 2009 at 6:30am | IP Logged |
http://www.franklang.ru/ has a lot of bilingual texts. You may need some Russian to navigate.
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Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6436 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese
| Message 5 of 9 16 December 2009 at 1:55pm | IP Logged |
http://shalnov.ru/school/text-makebilingua.html has a few parallel texts. Most notably, it has an Esperanto-Russian "The Master and Margarita". I've gone through the first chapter, and the Esperanto translation seems to be good - it takes a couple of bizarre liberties, but less than most literary translations I've seen (regardless of language).
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ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5805 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German
| Message 6 of 9 17 December 2009 at 3:11am | IP Logged |
For Portuguese the "Ta Falado" site has transcripts of the audio with parallel text in
Spanish and English.
http://tltc.la.utexas.edu/br
azilpod/tafalado/index.php
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magister Pro Member United States Joined 6600 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map
| Message 7 of 9 17 December 2009 at 4:18pm | IP Logged |
delectric wrote:
http://gloss.lingnet.org/
This is/was a good site but the website doesn't come up any more. Is there a problem with the site or is it that i'm surfing the web in China? |
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No, it's up. Try http://gloss.dliflc.edu/
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dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5787 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin
| Message 8 of 9 17 December 2009 at 5:15pm | IP Logged |
Nouvel Obs translates Newsweek articles into French, with a link to the original
http://recherche.nouvelobs.com/?q=newsweek&go=OK
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