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Language Immersion Extension for Chrome

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dleewo
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 Message 1 of 5
03 May 2012 at 3:38pm | IP Logged 
This is a pretty cool extension for Chrome. The link below has a video explaining how it
works:

US">Language Immersion for Chrome

I especially like the ability to hover over the foreign language and her it spoken
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TixhiiDon
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04 May 2012 at 12:13am | IP Logged 
It does seem like a great idea, except that for Georgian it sometimes works and sometimes
thinks "Ah, I can't be bothered with Georgian. Will Spanish do?"

EDIT: Oh, seems like it just needed a little warming up! It's now working fine. Wish
there
was audio for Georgian too, but beggars can't be choosers.

Edited by TixhiiDon on 04 May 2012 at 12:14am

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pingvin10
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25 May 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged 
For some reason, it doesn't work for me, so I had to find an alternative:

Mind the Word for Chrome.
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jean-luc
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25 May 2012 at 2:31pm | IP Logged 
The idea is cool but I completly distrust google trad for anything more than getting the gist of something (and maybe not even...).
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Serpent
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25 May 2012 at 5:29pm | IP Logged 
Google is fine for individual words.
Anything like that for Firefox? I've got polyglop but it doesn't work :(


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