# Do you read or listen to the news in a second language?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-or-listen-to-the-news-in-a-second-language/273589>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-or-listen-to-the-news-in-a-second-language/273589 "2004-11-08T04:47:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-or-listen-to-the-news-in-a-second-language/273589/21 "2004-11-10T03:03:20Z")

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I read the free Metro newspapers in French, and I read the Saturday Montreal Gazette. I mostly watch news in English, but sometimes I’ll stop on the French news channels if something looks good. The different perspectives on the same news stories make things interesting.

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**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-or-listen-to-the-news-in-a-second-language/273589/22 "2004-11-10T03:56:51Z")

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I get a local Italian-language paper (_L’Italo-Americano_) but my Italian is very poor, so I don’t get much out of it. I am quite proud of myself if I can understand the editorial cartoon. I subscribe mostly just to support the Italian-American community.

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**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-read-or-listen-to-the-news-in-a-second-language/273589/23 "2004-11-10T04:59:23Z")

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I occasionally buy the main Spanish language daily. It’s a local paper, so it has a lot of the same news that the English language papers do, but with a big emphasis on Latino issues.

I also check out Google news and browse wikipedia in Spanish from time to time, but not with any real regularity. I can read Spanish pretty well, better than I can speak it.

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