Introducing Engadget Korean and German!

Remember how when we launched Engadget Poland a couple weeks ago we said that we were just getting started rolling out new international versions of the site? Well, today we're announcing two exciting new Engadgets we've waited for years to get started: Korean and German! They're both in beta, so to speak, so try not to mind the sawdust as we work out the kinks. Big ups to Brian, Jason, Manfred, and everyone at our international teams that made these new sites possible. Oh, and if you're waiting for Engadget in your language of choice, don't worry, Korean and German aren't the last we'll be rolling out!

Read - Engadget Korea
Read - Engadget Germany

[Travis @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:47PM]

I took a semester of german.. I don't expect to be browsing your german site, kudo's though

[Nightmare @ Jul 4th 2008 1:16PM]

ich lebe engadget

[Lowest Ranked @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:49PM]

Ich, für ein, begrüßen unsere deutschen und koreanischen Engadget Websites.

[Jeremy K. @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:49PM]

Awesome!
Ehrfürchtig!
최고!

[indeego @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:52PM]

Oh, darauf habe ich tatsächlich lange gewartet .. sucht ihr Autoren für die deutsche Ausgabe?

[Jendrik @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:52PM]

Nice, let me know if you need any help =)
A lot of articles to be translated, huh?

[DestroyerMTL @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:56PM]

Eingadget!

[Simon @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:57PM]

Might be looking for French translators ?

[Eli @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:46PM]

Seconded. Be sure, Ryan, that you know that many of us here can help with a French site, including myself!

[Seb @ Jul 3rd 2008 7:01PM]

Thirded-ed-ed

[Who Knows @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:58PM]

지독한 백치!

[TJ @ Jul 4th 2008 7:09AM]

I know you used some internet translator. No koreans say like that.

[luuk @ Jul 3rd 2008 3:58PM]

YEAH Lets change a perfect good website in one with less....


like how many "german-gadget" people cant read english?

[jason @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:02PM]

good point. I havent met very many germans that could not speak english.

seems like a waste. Russia has large droves of people, and most of them cannot speak english (or speak english well). It would make more since to do it in good old russian rather than polish (which doesnt apply to this post but the polish site) or german.

[kjb434 @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:04PM]

Yeah,

And many Europeans speak it better than many Americans.

Maybe we should have an Engrish site! (and no, i didn't misspelled English by accident)

[PJD @ Jul 3rd 2008 8:40PM]

I suspect you will find more english speaking people in poland than in germany. i am german, but which site will i take now? the english which i sometimes have difficulties to understand because of the slang or the german which wont post all the news - or will they?

[Isaac @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:00PM]

Why do you keep making these sites? Spanish (Maybe Chinese) is the other most read language besides English yet the Spanish site has no comments on any of the articles.

I mean, if people actually really used the other language sites I would be more then happy for you guys to use your resources to build better ones but they don't.

[CUBSWILLWIN @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:56PM]

In my opinion, they are just doing because it's fun. If not, I don't know.

[cf292007 @ Jul 3rd 2008 6:06PM]

i think they are doing it to compete with gizmodo. They have versions of their sites for Australians, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Spanish, British, and French people.

[Scott @ Jul 3rd 2008 10:43PM]

Australian and British? Must be a joke.

[Jakob Henner @ Jul 4th 2008 4:19AM]

Gizmodo doesn't has any Danish version, but I guess the British and Australian versions focus on the country itself and not the language.

But a Scandinavian Engadget could be cool, Norwegian and Danish are almost identical. Swedish is way different but we understand it. But I'm having no problem understanding the "official Engadget"!

[The Dude @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:01PM]

Das Engadget?

[giantenemycrab @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:01PM]

I'm german and I can't read english.

[Pizzicato @ Jul 3rd 2008 6:07PM]

Me too, i like the pictures though.

[dEXIT @ Jul 4th 2008 5:28AM]

Improve your English!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU0j0r_cqvk

[bob sakamano @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:02PM]

bigups manfred!

or is it man for short?

[Danakin @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:03PM]

Super Toll! Dies ist wunderbar!

[Eric @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:03PM]

마지막으로, 좋은 소매

[happymaster23 @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:05PM]

This is nice, but which languages are on the way?
If there can be Polish version of Engadget I hope, that Czech is no problem too... ;)

[test @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:18PM]

im from germany and i dont think that a german page makes sense
nearly every german can at least read english

so who needs a german version


for example gizmodo has a german page but i never read it because it way behind their english version of it an of course way behind your page

to make a long text short

there is no need for a german engadget site

schöne grüße aus deutschland
greetings from germany

[Stefdio @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:35PM]

Hope to see in italian, my english is soooooo baaaaad XD

[connorcam @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:39PM]

Harro Hans Brix!

[Yuri @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:40PM]

Ooh! Do an Engadget Simplified Japanese site!

I can only read a few hundred Kanji =( So if you made it all in hiragana and katakana then I wouldn't feel so stupid XP

[diulei @ Jul 3rd 2008 6:58PM]

Good god, a page in all kana... that would be a long of vertical scrolling

[electron @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:41PM]

how come they have different/better posts on the german site????

[Ahmed Alzayani @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:41PM]

Arabic Engadget http://ar.engadget.com/

[mcbeanish @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:44PM]

ricky jeon and thaddeus herrmann be rocking those sites...

[jean @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:45PM]

when engadget in FRENCH?

[lUp @ Jul 4th 2008 9:56AM]

don't be so stubborn and learn a foreign language, frenchie :D

only because of you government protecting the "glorious french language" doesn't necessarily mean, that you, for one, can learn something :)

on a side note, the german RSS feed is broken (XML syntax error)

[hq @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:45PM]

finally the sometimes quite funny engadget headlines become completely unfunny when translated into german ;) (like a lot of funny english things become unfunny in german... and vice versa)

[geezer @ Jul 3rd 2008 6:00PM]

exactly my thinking, I am German (living in Scotland) and read a few of the headlines on the new German Engadget site and the translation is, well, awful and the joke lost. It's simply because of the wordplay in the English language that can't be translated. Besides that, it's behind the original site so why bother reading it...but I guess the ad space will sell well ;)

I'll stick with the English version, Dankeschön!

[Kei @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:47PM]

Still waiting on Engadget Arabia.

You've got a good person over here *raises hand*

[Kei @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:47PM]

Still waiting on Engadget Arabia.

You've got a good person over here *raises hand*

[Karl Viklund @ Jul 3rd 2008 4:53PM]

I don't see the need for this at all. Most people can read and understand some English. It's not a good idea to divide the community. I think it's bad

[Daniel @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:01PM]

ooh crazy im a mix of the 2 ethnicities, and can't read both languages but i can speak korean lol

[Qugeist @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:04PM]

yay! anyway, I've been reading Engadget English and Chinese Traditional (as well as Autoblog En/ChTrad) for a or two now :)

[shmengie @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:08PM]

is that a schnitzel in your leiderhosen or are you just happy to see me?

[L.Rawlins @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:11PM]

I'd like to see an Engadget English.

That's right, english English. All this 'after the jump', 'deets' and 'big ups' are just down right confusing.

;oP

[Interpol @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:21PM]

Any guesses on when Engadget Klingon will be out?

[Sascha @ Jul 3rd 2008 5:53PM]

kudos to you guys for another Engadget language version.

well due to the fact that i am running some german sites and blogs i can only tell you, not every german wants to read news in english!
we are still talking about the most spoken language in europe guys and engadget is doing a good job to support it!

just make sure that your german editors are keeping the site updated!

and for all the critics, just look at the german version of The Inquirer. It's doing really well.

Anyways, your german site is in my newsreader and i will make sure to support it with some backlinks (like you guys did with my blogs so many times before)

Cheers

Sascha
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