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Ooh, those simplified news sites/newsletters sound great, I'll have to see if I can find something similar for Norwegian!
Noospeak.com has Norwegian. It is the one I use.
This is super cool, I might fork this and change the prompt to Danish, and maybe use MIstral or DeepSeek as it has better Danish capabilities. I moved to Denmark and just passed my A1 exam, so looking for more easy stuff to do. DR.dk has `ligetil` which is simplified/easy danish news. So if I can find similar, I use it. I can probably have LLM do easy for me. Also Noospeak for daily newsletter in Danish. LLM has been…
I tried to figure out if the translation is correct (the concept of a "studio apartment" in English is not easy to express in Swedish, and "ateljé" is certainly not it). I even found this [1] comment on Reddit, detailing the exact same concern. Perhaps worth looking into? [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Svenska/comments/1j4teje/comment/mg...
Don't know Swedish, but I'm fully lower-to-mid intermediate with Norwegian (I hit limits, but my workplace is Norwegian). Swedish and Norwegian are really similar. In Norwegian, they don't talk about bedrooms as much as total major rooms. So a studio apartment, the sort that contains a private bath and kitchen area, is a one-room apartment. A one bedroom is a two-room apartment.
And it looks like Swedish (unsurprisingly) is similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/Svenska/comments/16aigvx/question_o...
That example is removing a lot of text. Is this the issue in the changelog or is it still removing details?
From what I can tell, I'd hardly want to read the original. Way too verbose and I highly suspect the rest of the book is similar.
I also learned Swedish, which I think is very interesting, because Sweden has 1/4 the population of California, but has a relatively large influence on Western culture. At least in my mind. Regarding learning a language, I recommend looking into Dr Krashen's theory of language acquisition, specifically comprehensible input. His favorite resource is comic books. For Swedish, I really like SVT with a VPN.
I second comic books, though the Swedish tends to be super colloquial and you will get stuff like "dig" rendered as "dej" (which is how it is generally pronounced, but not how it is formally written.) Kalle Anka is always the classic go to for Swedish learners.
NRK on the other hand actively tries to block everyone, which makes Norwegian a lot less accessible.
That example is removing a lot of text. Is this the issue in the changelog or is it still removing details?
It converts to lätt svenska (simplified Swedish), which is usually intended for beginners / students and I believe is the point here. The translated text is missing a lot of details, though, yes.
I found this very useful for learning second language: https://immersivetranslate.com/ Daily news is better resource than books IMHO. I have no vested interest here. The thing is, since it's not open source, I'm a bit worried about data privacy, especially because the plugin can see everything I browse.
I don't think news will give you a well rounded vocabulary. Im studying with an Anki deck which got its word order scraped from news. I know three different words for price (price in general, specific item, and formal) but I have yet to see, say, oven.