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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4085 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes  Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 1 of 12 10 January 2014 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Is it possible to have inline access to a dictionary which gives the meaning of a German
word (in English) in a German text? I know that kindle has something like this, does Linux? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5323 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 2 of 12 10 January 2014 at 8:57am | IP Logged | ||
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StarDict should work, if you find a good dictionary for it.
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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4085 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 3 of 12 10 January 2014 at 9:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Isnt that just a dictionary?
I am looking for the following functionality: I am reading a German text, I highlight a word, the English meaning of the word appears. I believe Kindle has this functionality. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 12 10 January 2014 at 10:08am | IP Logged | ||
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If you're reading the texts online, I'm sure there are plugins, e.g. popup dictionaries. Do a search for plugins for your preferred browser.
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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4681 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 5 of 12 10 January 2014 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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In Stardict settings, there is an item called "Scan" (which you also need to check at the bottom left of the main window) which is basically a little pop-up that appears after you've selected some text and pressed the pre-defined key. It works well.
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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4536 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 6 of 12 10 January 2014 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Firefox I use the extensions "Fast Translate" and "Grammarly", which work well.
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| RedBeard Senior Member United States atariage.com Joined 6105 days ago 126 posts - 182 votes Speaks: Ancient Greek* Studies: French, German | Message 7 of 12 10 January 2014 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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The wikipedia page for Stardict indicates that it may do the trick:
"While StarDict is in scan mode, results are displayed in a tooltip, allowing easy dictionary lookup. When combined with Freedict, StarDict will quickly provide rough translations of foreign language websites" Sounds promising... I may need to look into this myself!' :wq! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4085 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 8 of 12 11 January 2014 at 5:35am | IP Logged | ||
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I forgot to mention one crucial thing: I want this for reading e-books, not just for
browsing websites. Does this mean that browser plugins are not of use?
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