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Dear euronews team,

one of my teachers showed me your website a few weeks ago and since then it’s pretty much been a constant part of my life. I absolutely love the fact that you can choose from eight languages (even if I only understand three of them). Seeing as I’m studying interpretation and translation this is a very useful tool.

I am also a fan of the videos on your page. Too many websites just concentrate on the writing aspect of journalism, but the way you deal with news is quite unique as far as I am concerned. My computer is fairly old and it has no problem whatsoever to play your videos. I always have issues with pages like YouTube and other video sharing services, but this one runs perfectly.

My favorite section of euronews is probably “cinema”. You’re not only reviewing big blockbusters. Instead you also have those little indie gems that make your page so much different from a lot of other movie review sites.

Keep up the good work and have a nice day,

Almer

13.12.08

Dear euronews team,

I’m deeply impressed by your site. There’s one platform for people all over the world where they can find the same news and choose in which language they want to listen or read to them (or even both) :D.

I usually listen to those articles which are in German and listen in read to those in English to improve my English skills, and I found out that some articles vary a little bit. I have to mention that I am not upset by this fact but I think it is good, because Europeans don’t need to know everyone involved into the Rod Blagojevich scandal. Nevertheless all the articles are very similar and extremely well done.

I’m looking forward to listen and read the next breaking news.

kind regards,
erna

Dear Weather team, I have been amazed to see that Zürich weather predictions for the last three weeks averaged between 10C and 16C. That is something! I have personally experienced between -5C and +5C during that time. Somehow your information about Zürich is way off target. Thanks for the great news broadcasts. Ther other major networks are repetitavely boaring and long winded. Ron

13.12.08

Dear euronews team,

Thank you very much for devotion and effort you put in your work. You are a revolution in the branch of journalism. In the past one could either listen the news on the radio, seen them on television or read about them in the newspapers and now thanks to euronews one can combine all these dimensions at the same time. Even more important fact about euronews is that you are not led by any government or political party so you portray the events as objective as possible, what is not always the case in every country. Due to the fact that you do not charge any thing for the usage of your Internet pages, you brought tons of information to a waste audience. I think your work will increase immensely the level of awareness of what is happening in our world. I just wanted to thank you for that.

With regards,
Martina Cvek

Dear euronews team,

I wanted to say that this website is really great and useful for language learners. There are great vocabulary and as I’m studying English it is not only an excellent site to keep myself up to date but also to learn the language itself. What I also like about the site is that the topics are translated in many other languages so it is possible for me to compare the translations. Another positive point is that there is such a wide range of topics and it covers every field.
Keep working like that!!!

Dear euronews team,

First of all I would like to say thank you for a informative and well-structured website. I really enjoy reading your articles. I´m studying Translation & Interpreting so this is a great way to improve my reading and listening skills and when I don´t understand something I can find the same article in German. The best thing about this site is that you can hear the news if you don´t have enough time reading them. I started to work with this page at university but now I´m surfing it almost every day. I even recommended this page to my friend who didn´t know about it and they like it.

Kind regards,
Medi

Dear euronews team,

I just wanted to leave a comment and tell you that this is really a great website providing news on the internet.

I’m from Austria, studying translation and interpreting, and so this page is really useful for me. I know that there are already eight languages here, but also the eastern part of Europe becomes more and more important and maybe you could also add texts in Slovenian, Croatian or any other Slavic language (besides Russian). Maybe I have to tell you that I am studying Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian…

I’d also like to congratulate you on your “no comments” page. This is the most unusual, but also most fascinating thing I ever found on such a website. It gives us as a reader the possibility to interpret the video on our own and to form a personal opinion. I will, for sure, recommend it to all of my friends.

Best wishes from Austria!

As a Historian-International Relations analyst, and as a Greek citizen, I feel grief. I don’t see flames burning down shops, cars, rather I see flames being set on democracy, ideologies, progress. The protestors lose their battle when doing the above, and if peace marches were held throughout Greece, this would be more effective. The problem is that the economic, political and cultural problems within Greece are far too great and the death of Alexandros is the mere ‘spark’ to ignite this fire.

Dear euronews team,

I was recommended your website by one of my lecturers at university and had the opportunity to take a closer look at it for the last six weeks.

Generally speaking, I have to say I really enjoy your services. You offer me the possibility to keep myself up to date with the latest news from anywhere in the world. Second, for a student of Translation and Interpreting (I work with English and Spanish), euronews is a very useful tool in order to improve one’s language skills. To name an example, one has the chance to listen to videos in a great variety of languages and compare the various translations of one and the same story. This is quite an interesting exercise which helped me to enrich my active English vocabulary.

Apart from my positive feedback, however, I would like to make the following enquiry: Since I am totally blind from birth, I need to use a screen-reading software called JAWS which enables me to work with the computer in general, navigate through websites of my interest, etc. Unfortunately, watching videos on the euronews website without the assistance of a sighted person is impossible for me because the “start” button you need to click in order to start a video is not displayed to me by JAWS. Consequently, whenever I would like to watch a video, a sighted person has to click it for me. As you can probably imagine, always being dependent on this kind of help is rather annoying, especially if you would like to listen to videos on a regular basis (meaning daily), not just every now and then, when there is a sighted person available to help. Therefore I would like to know whether it would be possible to program the website in a way that the videos start playing automatically when clicking the respective links. Alternatively, you could display the “start” button as a text rather than a graphic, or you could provide an option to download the videos available at your website.

Since I am not the only blind person having difficulties when it comes to listening to euronews videos, I can definitely assure you that many blind Internet users would benefit from this improvement.

I look forward to your reply.

Kind regards,

Annika Flaake

10.12.08

Dear euronews,

first of all I’d like to say that your multilingual homepage is a great idea to provide news from all over the world. Translating all articles into so many different languages helps especially language learners like me to improve their oral and writing skills.

I also like the newly introduce search option which I was missing at the beginning. Sometimes I like to recheck certain information and so such an option is quite helpful.

All in all, your homepage is a good example of making it possible for everyone to stay up-to-date with the world news and in addition to that also gain certain language knowledge. Many other news pages should take a leaf out of your book.