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LXer Feature: 21-Oct-2006

LXer will begin posting German-language articles to the newswire.

You will soon see articles in German on the newswire, interspersed among the English articles. This effort to expand LXer's German readership is in line with our global audience and sponsorship from German groups. Approximately 45% of our audience is from outside the United States. We will be watching the growth of the German audience with an eye toward adding new languages for readers in other countries.



The German articles will be original materials published through LXer as well as links to external German news sites carrying news about GNU/Linux and Free/Open Source Software. To help smooth the integration of German articles into LXer's newswire, German articles will have German discussion threads. English articles will retain their English discussion threads.



We are pleased to announce that one of our regular readers, Wolfgang Lonien, will be working as a Contributing Editor to provide content in German. LXer regulars know Wolfgang well as a Debian user. Wolfgang's blog posts have been featured occasionally on LXer's newswire. You can read more about Wolfgang on our team page.

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Comments (19)

dcparris Story submitter ·
Danke!
techiem2 ·
So will you be offering a learn to read German course along with these articles? :)
dcparris Story submitter ·
I'm so glad you asked! We're offering free german courses, in partnership with Google:

[url=http://www.google.com/search?q=learn german free&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official]http://www.google.com/search?q=learn german free&start=0&ie=...[/url]

:-)
techiem2 ·
But those aren't taught personally by you! :)

*Adds a bunch more bookmarks to his long list of things to study*
dcparris Story submitter ·
"danke", "bitte", "Auf Wiedersehen", and about 10 (literally, one - ten) other German words is about all you would learn from me. And that's if I can figure out the spellings of the rest.

And now you've learned "sensationsmeldung!" You learn quickly! :-)
ccady ·
For those of us who cannot read German, I hope that the articles are easily separated. I hope the RSS feed can be split for those who want it.
jimf ·
Sorry, I haven't even been keeping up on my Japanese, but good that we're branching out.
dcparris Story submitter ·
For now it will be integrated, with the German articles being interspersed among the English articles. I don't expect we'll see large numbers of German articles initially. Once our German readership grows a bit, we'll launch them off to a separate domain, and begin adding other European languages to that domain.

You'll notice it, but I hope you won't find it aggravating. :-)
dcparris Story submitter ·
jimf: I would like to start working with an Asian language in the near future. I had been working on that with little success, and the opportunity to work with German seems to be the better one at the moment. So I'll keep plugging away at the Asians, but right now, it's German. :-)
techiem2 ·
So many languages, so little time to study them...
dcparris Story submitter ·
True that!
1c3d0g ·
rm /LXer.com/bookmark

:-/
techiem2 ·
Anyway, I think the multi-language thing is cool. Especially the multi-domain idea. Like lxer.com could be everything, then you could have en.lxer.com, de.lxer.com, jp.lxer.com, etc. for the various language specific lists.
incinerator ·
coole Sache, Parker ;-)
hkwint ·
I agree with ccady above: At least we could prefix our non-English stories with 'DE: ' or so? If I (might) start writing in Dutch stuff becomes confusing, so I think prefixing is a good idea.

(Prefixes may be a problem, since English speaking people call 'Deutschland' Germany, and they call the language spoken in the Netherlands 'Dutch', but we'll sort that out)

Uhhm, Schönen Tag!
Sander_Marechal ·
@hkwint: That's why there are ISO country codes :-)
hkwint ·
I know, I vote in favour of it!
dcparris Story submitter ·
You raise an interesting point, Hans.

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