Languages

Language and country are settings on the domain, not a separate product.

Any language, any country

Mastheads writes in any language, for any country. Pick both when you set up a domain, and every article the newsroom produces for it - scheduled or asked for by hand - comes out in that language, written for that place.

Written natively, not translated

Articles are written natively in the target language: grammar and idiom that read like a native speaker wrote them, not an English draft run through a translator afterward.

The native register, market by market

Beyond the language itself, a newsroom has a house style, and it differs by country. That register is curated for these markets:

Germany · Sweden · Netherlands · United Kingdom · United States · Australia · India · Norway · Switzerland · Canada · Ireland

In those, the writing follows local newsroom convention rather than a translated approximation of an American one. German takes „…" with the comma after the closing mark. Swedish news ends on the last fact rather than a summary. Reading level is graded on LIX outside English.

Everywhere else, the article is written in your language plainly, with no invented local style. We would rather say nothing about local convention than guess at it - a French article should not be told to use dollar amounts. You still get the language; you do not get a register we have not verified.

The same voice, the same bar

Whichever language a domain runs in, it uses the same voice controls and passes the same quality gates as every other. A German domain and an English one go through identical desks - neither is treated as the primary language with the rest trailing behind.

One subscription, every language

You don't pay per language. No plan gates which languages you can write in, so one subscription covers every one of them, across as many domains as your plan allows - run one in Dutch and another in Norwegian without a separate plan for each.

Related: Voice and bylines · Quick start