Foreign Accents

i hope someone (10.86 / 7)

Finds this list helpful. I'm exhausted from compiling it; now I have to grade and edit student papers.
Ugh.

"I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it."

Steven Wright

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by: lorraine @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 12:43:12 PM CST

feeling gifted (7.67 / 3)

What a wonderfully generous gift you have given us, Lorraine. I have made clumsy attempts myself to find news from around the world.

I watch BBC each morning around 3 am - then go back to sleep. I find the BBC almost as corporate and disgusting as US media - but bits of news do get through - and I get a pre-dawn jump on the global situation.

Again, thank you for these resources.

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by: katecontinued @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 12:57:34 PM CST

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My students (9.00 / 2)

are supposed to read foreign newspapers on the web three times per week. If I don't do this legwork for them, they're clueless as to how to find this stuff, so I start them with a list and then ask them to add to it over the semester.

next up: alternative news sources/magazines on the web. I'm saving that list for later this week, after I get this grading done.

"I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it."

Steven Wright

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by: lorraine @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 13:07:07 PM CST

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Thank you so much for this (0.00 / 0)

I've been reading some German and some Russian papers online but this is great and helps a lot. 

Boy don't you hate grading student work.

My will is easy to decide, for I have nothing to divide. My kin won't need to fuss and moan Moss don't cling to a rolling stone. -- Joe Hill,

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by: slick riddles @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 13:52:50 PM CST

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My least favorite part of the job (n/t) (0.00 / 0)

Procrastination: Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.

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by: Linnaeus @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 15:00:51 PM CST

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three more (5.00 / 2)

Taipei Times (Taiwan)

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

Times of India (India)

surf putah, your friendly neighborhood central valley samizdat

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by: wu ming @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 13:20:27 PM CST

I doubt (7.25 / 4)

any of the above papers put "American Idol Judges are Meaner this Season" on their front page

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." ~Jimi Hendrix

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by: Damnit Janet @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 13:34:10 PM CST

this one from China (2.00 / 1)

is almost as good:

Chinese Army Symbol of Peace and Justice

"I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it."

Steven Wright

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by: lorraine @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 13:42:33 PM CST

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Thanks. (5.50 / 2)

I used to subscribe to World Press Magazine, which I understand has not been published for about a year.  This link to foreign new sources is from the person who was editor of that magazine:

http://www.worldpres...

It is good to see what other countries have to say about things that concern them and us.

World Press Magazine is where I learned that most of the world outside the West thinks water and access to it will be the source of more wars in the 21st Century than oil.  Iraq has four or five rivers.  The Palestine terroritories have the aquifers primarily under them.  Learned that info in 1999.  The Indians and the Africans are already suffering for want of water that is afordable and not privatized.

Vigilance is the price of freedom. That means us citizens, and not our professional military or its industrial complex bleeding us for every dollar they waste protecting corporate hegemony. That is part of what weakens citizens and puts us in danger.

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by: Silverbird @ Tue Jan 30, 2007 at 14:18:48 PM CST

exactly! the best source I know of short of learning 20 foreign languages ... (5.00 / 1)

Good for you!  I was just about to post a link to their site when I saw your post.

  If only we'd known sooner about your initiatve, Lorraine. And what a fine one it is, too! 

 

Read - think - speak - doubt; create - explore - give - love.

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by: proximity1 @ Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 08:07:32 AM CST

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feel free to keep posting more (0.00 / 0)

One of the things that I tell students, even when they're gathering foreign news, is that they need to check the press agency that reported. They could, for example, be seeing a reprint of an AP story in an Indian paper, or they could be seeing a simple Reuters wire that's been carried internationally. The trick is finding the news that's been published independently--and in Australia, for example, where Murdoch owns a huge portion of the press, the major dailies may all be reporting pretty much the same thing. When I get a moment, I'll link to some of the more outrageous sources--the kinds of "blood libel" stories that still show up in newspapers that one can find online.

"I have an existential map. It has "You are here" written all over it."

Steven Wright

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by: lorraine @ Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 09:00:16 AM CST

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The Mexico Herald (0.00 / 0)

Mexico City edition of the Miami Herald.

http://www.mexiconew...

The People's Republic of Moronia--If it ain't fixed, don't broke it.

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by: Jules Siegel @ Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 11:55:31 AM CST