Apparantly, 20 Minutes now publish in English via an app.
Pity it’s with an app, and not available on-line.
Just to round out this thread, I'll add the following albeit I think it's best to read the local news in the local language.
That could be very good news...
But, unfortunately, I am very "un-optimistic" toward companies who force their potential users to use their service via mobile apps instead of the web.
And a news agency is among to most "bizarre" in that category.
If it’s free, YOU are the product.
and one has to register....
I'm a dinosaur that cannot imagine how people is able to work without at least 2 monitors.
However, on average half of website traffic is mobile (phones + tablets). The other half, desktop. Don't know the numbers for 20min.ch and don't know the trends. Maybe it makes sense for them to start with mobile, eventually desktop catches up.
Also as bowlie mentioned, readers are the product. I think the people that would prefer to read news in English in CH is a population for interest for marketing. For most jobs you need at least 1 local language, if one is here without enough knowledge of local language it only means high skills, therefore disposable income.
If reading on an Android OS or iOS , open 20min.ch / srf.ch etc in chrome or safari browser and let it auto translate it for you in english.
Works really well and translation is about 90% accurate .. some times it can be little funny, remember once it was something like below when auto translating from blick.ch :
Blick at Bad Bahnof
was translated to
Look at Bathroom Station
The original link said that 20M was using machine translation and warned it wasn’t going to ne perfect. In other words not much better than having your browser translate.
I'm confused.
On my phone, 20min is automatically translated into English without an app, and on my laptop, I just open it in chrome and hit the translate tab if needed.
Not everyone knows that. In Safari you click on the Aa at the far left of the URL box and click on Translate. iOS and Mac OS.
The automatic translator is working out really well for 20 Minutes.
This is what happened to the busses that were abandoned in front of the slaughterhouse
https://www.20min.ch/story/so-erging...redLanguage=en
And the caption on the pic on page 4 turns them into buffalos...��
Here Bussi, Bussi, Bussi 😂
It actually gets better. As someone who speaks German quite fluently I am pitying the poor people who want to use 20 Minutes English version to improve their language skills. https://www.20min.ch/story/lonza-war...redLanguage=en
This is just ridiculous. A human proofreader might be needed. The German headline is completely different.
If someone wants to do that, reading it in German isn't ideal , but probably a better approach.
What's wrong with something completely different?