Italian native here. The quality of "podcast" is really really good. I spotted only one mispronounciation in the first couple minutes ("siete pronti ad immergervi...": immergervi had the stress on the wrong syllabe) but the rest was extremely good - kudos!
Hacker News in Slow Italian
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In the meanwhile, try this to train your ear and practice French with current news using easy vocabulary (they do speak very clearly, worked wonders for me when I was learning). https://francaisfacile.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/journal-en-françai...
try https://frenchspin.fr/category/le-rdv-tech/ for tech news
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I'm guessing choosing a regional variety of Spanish to use could be fraught.
I'm sure you're already familiar with the following, but could be interesting for others. Spain (the country) has multiple official languages, one of them being the European Spanish called Castellano Spanish. This is what people refer to as "Spanish language". However there are others, like Catalonian, Galician, Basque, Valenciano etc. languages, which are also "Spanish", but not mutually intelligible with Castellano…
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#86Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)
As a native Italian speaker I can tell you two things: 1. The translation is great. I actually never used ChatGPT for translating content and this opens a new world for me. 2. The text-to-speech is good, but less so than the translation itself. It still is completely understandable, but if you are a learner I believe it could cause some bad habits over time. For instance, at around the 30 second mark, the translation…
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#87Let me know in here if there is a particular language you'd like to see for this! Not gonna lie, the costs run in order of dollars per episode, so if you are keen on listening to this, let me know, otherwise it would be a waste of money :)
Would be really cool in Spanish!
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Ok, let me try and generate one episode for you when I get home. Curious to hear what you think afterwards :)
i too would love to listen to a Mexican Spanish version
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i too would love to listen to a Mexican Spanish version
I would love Spanish from Salamanca, Spain — which is supposed to be the gold standard.
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Would be really cool in Spanish!
Yep Spanish Spanish (Madrid) please!