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I’ve a hard time reading some of my favorite blogs, including Eee Personal computer News and Blogeee because, well, I don’t talk German or French. Not fluently anyway. Historically, I’ve tried to deal with this limitation of mine by subscribing to each site’s RSS feed and trying to figure out what articles are about by squinting at the headlines, scratching my head, and looking at the photos. Each now and again I find something I think might be interesting and I pop it into Google Translate. But I’m fairly certain I’m missing some interesting stories this way.

Mloovi is a new service that makes it much easier to follow a blog or news site published in a language you don’t talk. Mloovi basically takes the contents of the feed, runs it through Google Translate, and then syndicates a new feed.

There are a few limitations to Mloovi-generated feeds. First, you’ll occasionally be confronted with an advertisement, but Mloovi needs to make money somehow. Second, Mloovi strips images from RSS feeds and only shows a partiel feed even if a web site’s original feed was full text. But Mloovi can still be massive time saver if you want to follow some foreign language sites. Mloovi works with any languages supported by Google Reader, including Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Hindi, Norwegian and English.

Mlovi also has a handy widget that lets web publishers offer subscription links in mulitple languages.

[via ReadWriteWeb

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