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| LinguasorbRich Newbie United Kingdom linguasorb.com Joined 5430 days ago 7 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 16 15 January 2010 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
Hi, If you enter 'the word' as the English it will only replace that exact combination i.e. it will replace 'the word' but not 'word' or 'that word'. I think for what you want you could enter.. the word / das wort and seperately word / (das) wort you can also customise the highlight colour to indicate the gender. I dont know what gender that would be but for Spanish I have been using a blue background for masculine words, pink for feminine and green for non-nouns - instead of adding the article. In the future I might beable to add the functionality to automatically add the article and plural variants when a noun is added. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6127 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 10 of 16 15 January 2010 at 2:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh, I see. Thanks. I'll try the color highlight system here for now.
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| Hashimi Senior Member Oman Joined 6261 days ago 362 posts - 529 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)* Studies: English, Japanese | Message 11 of 16 20 January 2010 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is a similar firefox add-on called "Characterizer".
It is intended to be used with Japanese kanji, but it is customizable so you can use it in any pair of lanugages. The most important feature in this add-on is that it is completely offline and do not require an account. The second feature is that you can add/import as many words as you want in a few seconds unlike Linguasorb which is very slow, one word each time. If Linguasorb has these two feautres (or at least the option to import a large number of words at once) it would be better than Characterizer since it has very useful features like the highlight, tooltips, etc. Edited by Hashimi on 20 January 2010 at 1:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LinguasorbRich Newbie United Kingdom linguasorb.com Joined 5430 days ago 7 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 16 20 January 2010 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Very interesting, thanks for the post. It seems like a bulk import is quite important to people so I think I'll add that next. I am planning some other supporting tools that will use your personal word list so i think a user account will still be needed for that so you can carry it across different tools and mediums, but perhaps a standard list of common words could be offered without sign up. One of the extra tools is this iGoogle gadget www.google.co.uk/ig/adde?hl=en&moduleurl=http://www.linguaso rb.com/widget/linguasorbgadget.xml&source=imag It basically just cycles slowly through your personal word list (with option to hide/show the English) so you get an additional language hit whenever you go to your home page. I thought it might help to revise those words that dont come up on web pages very often. Edited by LinguasorbRich on 20 January 2010 at 1:40pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LinguasorbRich Newbie United Kingdom linguasorb.com Joined 5430 days ago 7 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 16 16 April 2010 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi all,
Sorry it's taken me so long to get on top of this and do an update to the toolbar - I've been working on lots of other language bits and bobs for the website. Anyway, I've done what I can to make the toolbar more usable following your suggestions. Now it has over 1000 words in the dictionary already, and you can add/remove groups of words (colours, food etc) to your list in one click. It also has a afew common word groups already added so as soon as you register you will see it translate certain words on web pages without having to do anything. So far the ready made word groups are for Spanish only - but I'll be adding other languages over the next few days now that the infrastructure is there. I also now have a database of Spanish verbs and conjugations (http://www.linguasorb.com/learnspanish/verbs.aspx) so I can now look at getting the toolbar to translate the different verb forms instead of just the infinitive. The toolbar page is here http://www.linguasorb.com/toolbar.aspx . I'll post again when I add the default word lists for other languages. As before, this is really going to be user led, so I'd like to know your thoughts and suggestions so I can try and implement them. Thanks Rich 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 16 17 April 2010 at 6:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I'd try it, but I already use the Firefox add-on FoxReplace.
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| vijar82 Newbie Canada Joined 5584 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Studies: French, English* | Message 15 of 16 12 September 2010 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Rich,
Could not install it on FireFox 3.6.9 :(. Rajiv 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tally Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Israel Joined 5610 days ago 135 posts - 176 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew* Studies: French | Message 16 of 16 12 September 2010 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Looks very useful!
I wish you would add Italian though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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