Language Splicer

Project - 06.04.19

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Using python, a BBC news article is translated into another language. The English and other language are then spliced together, one sentence after the other. The purpose is to help pick up the language being learnt passively, with the hope of picking up nouns and phrases naturally.

Translating news articles also has the benefit of learning the language at a high level i.e. the sentences outputted will not be at a beginners level but at a level of full fluency.

Python was used for this script. A module, called googletrans, was found which implements the Google Translate API.

Issues encountered were dealling with links inside paragraphs, and identifying the headline, story introduction, and story itself from the rest of the page

Below, a BBC article is spliced with the Spanish language.

And the same example in Japanese.