Several of us would like to start a new group entitled perhaps "World News Forum"

[JDPriestly]

or "World Press Discussion."

If you have an idea for a better name, please suggest it.

To do this, Skinner advised me that we need to sign up 10 star members. (Have to have stars.)

I have a couple of volunteers already.

The idea of the group would be to get good translations of news and opinion pieces in foreign-language newspapers from around the world and publish them here so that we on DU can get a broader scope of information.

Any Canadians or British, Scottish or Indian or Irish or South Africans on board?

And then how about people who speak and can translate from foreign languages. I have the help of a native German speaker, and I can translate French although I am not a native speaker.

We need Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian languages, Dutch, Russian, Hungarian, etc. You get the idea.

Some news from African countries would be great. And then there are China and Mongolia, Japan and Viet Nam, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia.

Let's try to get news from around the world.

Please e-mail me here at DU if you are interested and then as soon as I have the names of ten star members, I will contact Skinner.

I really think this would be interesting, educational and fun.

[Autumn]

1. Count me in. That would be a great idea.

[JDPriestly]

2. Thanks. I will. Please e-mail your friends.

[sibelian]

3. This Scotsman thinks it's an excellent idea...

An idea whose time has come. All media everywhere has an agenda, and only through comparison of differing sources can useful information be gleaned. Papers have particular lines they need to follow to appeal to their readership , which is always heavily predefined and sometimes perspectives that wouldn't even have occured to "one paper" loyalists can be highly enlightening.

I support this wholeheartedly.

[JDPriestly]

6. You've got the idea. If you are a star member, may I use your name among the ten?

Scottish newspapers would be a great source.

Thanks.

[malaise]

47. You can use my name n/t

[dipsydoodle]

4. Noted so's I can find it.

Good idea.

[JDPriestly]

5. May I name you as a founding member or whatever it is called?

[dipsydoodle]

8. If you wish.

[Katashi_itto]

7. Count me in too, I would be honored to help in any way!

[JDPriestly]

11. Great! I will count you in.

[Katashi_itto]

66. Thanks!

[Catherina]

9. No star but I would be happy to help with translations for important events

or when our media is simply going overboard with its selective parsing and weasel wording.

I can do French and Spanish

[JDPriestly]

84. Spanish. There is so much news from Spain and South America, and I don't think we are getting it

at all.

[Purveyor]

10. Sounds like a great idea as I'm scouring on the foreign news sites on a regular basis. I've

sent you an email on this.

Hope it gets approved.

[Zorra]

12. I'm your huckleberry.

[Autumn]

13. LOL yes you are

[Aerows]

18. NICE! n/t

[nancyfladem]

14. I would love to join.

I don't speak any other language well enough to be able to translate but would like to join if you still need more Star members.
Wonderful idea.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. I will add my star to the mix..

count me in.

[Aerows]

17. I would love to learn Japanese

It would be very nice .

[AsahinaKimi]

20. Did you see this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1250753

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1250815

[Aerows]

21. Oh Neat!

Thank you Kimiko

[AsahinaKimi]

22. dou itashimashite!!

you are welcome!

[Aerows]

25. What would be the proper response?

[AsahinaKimi]

27. None needed.

Thank you = Doumo Arigatou gozaimasu (formal)/ (Less formal) Doumo Arigatou (polite) Arigatou (less) doumo.
You're welcome = Dou Itashimashite.

[Aerows]

28. Doumo Arigatou gozaimasu

Thank you for explaining.

[AsahinaKimi]

31. mata, dou itashimashite!

you're welcome !

[Aerows]

49. I'm learning

I think that meant, my pleasure, you are welcome?

[AsahinaKimi]

52. mata = again..

you are welcome, again.

[Aerows]

53. Mata

thank you for explaining.

[JDPriestly]

108. The group is started and in the Media forum.

[Aerows]

16. Count me on board

I speak French, Spanish and Portuguese and a handful of other languages, but I always like to exercise it so that I can speak them better. I'm horrible at Italian, but would like to learn it.

I'm in!

[JDPriestly]

85. That's good news.

[mokawanis]

19. Great idea. Count me in. n/t

[Turborama]

23. what a great idea, I'm in.

I live in Indonesia and there are some good English language news sources here and next door in Malaysia/Singapore.

Please feel free to add my name to the list.

"Global Perspectives"?

Just popped into my mind...

[JDPriestly]

86. Fascinating part of the world.

Lots of news items.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

24. Count Me in. I think this is a great idea, Thanks JD.

[JDPriestly]

87. Done. Thanks.

[bluedigger]

26. Great idea - let's call it "The World Forum"!

[JDPriestly]

88. OK with me. We'll see what Skinner says.

[graywarrior]

29. Great idea!

[JDPriestly]

33. Thanks. Bring in lots of articles and comment often. I think we will get this done.

[Doctor_J]

35. That language that Dylan now sings in. Does it have a name?

[graywarrior]

36. Only he knows and he ain't sharing.

[JDPriestly]

41. Do you want to join this group? Will you support it?

I'm not trying to put pressure on you. I'm just making a list to submit to Skinner.

[Doctor_J]

45. I will probably participate

My FL skills are practically nil though

[dkf]

30. Me please!

Love love love this idea.

[JDPriestly]

32. Great. Contribute lots. Doesn't have to be the foreign language press, but at least

foreign press. Do you like the name "World Forum"?

[dkf]

62. Sounds great.

Of course I am contributing my star membership...not any language proficiencies. Haha.

[sabrina 1]

34. That's an excellent idea, you can sign me up also.

[JDPriestly]

39. Excellent. I will include you in the list. Let's get some good items and discussions going.

[LiberalAndProud]

37. One more vote in favor of this.

It's a great idea. I am hopeful that we'll get some great contributors. You can be sure I'll subscribe.

[JDPriestly]

38. Good to have you with us.

[marions ghost]

40. Great idea

I will support this. But other than Murkin I only speak Strailian.

[JDPriestly]

42. Stralian is foreign enough. I would love to get news from down under. Thanks. You're in.

[marions ghost]

54. OK

DU it!

[City Lights]

43. This is an excellent idea!

I am totally up for participating in this forum, however, I cannot offer any assistance in translating anything unless it's in Pig Latin, or Ubbi Dubbi.

[Autumn]

61. Well if they need someone for ASL I'm good on that

[muriel_volestrangler]

44. I'm a star member, and you can put me down for it

I can't do a decent translation from any language, I'm afraid.

For anyone who wants a good RSS feed for world news in the meantime, I can recommend the BBC World news one: http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml

[JDPriestly]

60. We need your contributions. The BBC is a foreign news source.

There was a time in my life when I was very isolated and had, most of the day, no one to talk to in English. I was unable to speak the language of the country in which I lived in a relatively isolated village. The BBC kept me sane (or at least as sane as I was).

The BBC is great.

[Divernan]

46. Thanks for the invite - I accept

And I even got a brand new star for the occasion. I'm a regular reader of the UK Guardian; Northern Ireland's Belfast Telegraph; Edinburgh's The Scotsman; Germany's Der Spiegel International; and occasionally check in on Le Monde diplomatique; Al Jazeera and the International Herald Tribune (based in Paris since 1887, and now part of the New York Times Company - it will be renamed the International New York Times in the fall of 2013.)

Here's a link for sources of worldwide news in English.
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/european%20newspapers%20in%20english.html
as well as : http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/#.UdtCZazAHLT

Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome all.

[JDPriestly]

59. Wonderful. You are on.

Wow! Sounds like you will have a lot to contribute.

Danke, merci, yes, welcome all.

[MannyGoldstein]

48. Great idea!

Unfortunately I'm not able to translate but I look forward to seeing this!

[JDPriestly]

57. Wonderful. We look forward to your comments and other contributions.

[rug]

50. Count me in.

[JDPriestly]

56. Great. Will do.

[Cleita]

51. Great idea and I hope you get it. I would sign up but I'm not

star member but hope others step up. Any way I can give you a kick and rec.

[Autumn]

55. It's all good. The group will need plenty of participation.

[JDPriestly]

58. You will be very welcome if we get the group.

You don't have to be a star member to post.

Thanks.

[JaneyVee]

63. I speak Russian, French, Spanish, and obviously English. But I probably don't have

The time to put in to keep up with a dedicated forum. Good luck! I would gladly participate from time to time though.

[JDPriestly]

65. Woah! That's a lot of languages. Wonderful.

We will enjoy it if you contribute what you can.

[smirkymonkey]

64. I would love it!

Thanks for the idea! (although I would love it if they would have English translations since I am not fluent in many languages.)

[JDPriestly]

67. Yes. We will need English translations.

Some newspapers have English editions. And lots of foreign newspapers are in English. This will be a place in which people can post something and ask for a summary or a translation if they can't do it themselves.

So far we have mostly European and English-language speakers. But I think that the group will grow and attract more people who know other languages.

[Earth_First]

68. ...is this above and beyond LBN/GD?

Or would stories of international importance that would normally be included in LBN/GD instead be posted there by forum protocol?

If I would have to visit a forum outside of LBN for international news, I would be opposed to this idea ...

[JDPriestly]

69. This would be in addition to LBN/GD.

I post from foreign sources. Often someone wants the information I got in a foreign source. It takes me a bit of effort to translate some of these posts. A special forum for foreign language sources would serve as a kind of reference library for those of us who go to the extra effort to find and translate these article.

It would be unusual but in this instance, seems to me it would not hurt to bost both in LBN or GD and in the Rorld Forum. Mostly to save translation effort.

[DavidDvorkin]

70. Good idea

I'd join that group.

I have a star, and you can use my name if you still need star members.

[JDPriestly]

90. Great.

[FarCenter]

71. Good idea

Sort of like World Press Review, but with comments?

http://www.worldpress.org/

[JDPriestly]

91. Wonderful!

[FarCenter]

103. kick

[Euphoria]

72. Great idea. Just what we need to begin to counter

the narrow-minded closed perspective of the American press.
Count me in.

[JDPriestly]

93. You are in.

[sabrina 1]

73. Looks like you have a lot of interest in this forum. Do you have enough star members

yet to get it started? Seems like it from reading this thread.

Let us know if and when it is ready to start. Looking forward to it.

[JDPriestly]

94. Will do.

[JDPriestly]

107. The group is started and in the Media forum.

[flying rabbit]

74. No star, but I like the concept. nt

[JDPriestly]

95. You can still post OPs.

[laundry_queen]

75. I can't commit to anything

but I can pop in to help translate some French stuff and I can post some Canadian news stories when time permits.

[JDPriestly]

96. Great!

[NoOneMan]

76. Im pretty sure if there were other countries besides the US, I would of learned about them in school

[think]

80. You weren't taught about The ‘President Of Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan’ ?

[midnight]

77. I like this idea....

[JDPriestly]

97. Please post articles if we get this going.

[leftstreet]

78. Excellent idea!

I like 'World Forum'

[darkangel218]

79. I would like an World Forum too. nt

[Archaic]

81. I would enjoy reading the news from around the world.

Count my star in.

[think]

82. Great idea. Willing to Google Chrome translate and post articles if this allowed

Otherwise I'm stuck with English.

I'm on other sites where people post Chrome translation versions to get the story up and then people familiar with the native language help tweak the translation.

Just a thought

But anyway that the forum is set up I certainly look forward to seeing this forum started!

[Waiting For Everyman]

83. Great idea!

No translating, but another star if you need one.

(I read French well enough to understand for myself, but not well enough to translate.)

[Mojorabbit]

89. I'm in. nt

[JimDandy]

92. Excellent idea. n/t

[Bonobo]

98. Count me in as representing Japan. nt

[suffragette]

99. Great idea

Can't translate, but am good at digging up info.

[octoberlib]

100. Wonderful idea ! Count me in. nt

[Democracyinkind]

101. Cool. i'm in.

[JDPriestly]

106. The group is started and in the Media forum.

[defacto7]

102. Deal me in.

[JDPriestly]

105. The group is started and in the Media forum.

[JDPriestly]

104. The group is started and in the Media forum.