FVerschoor Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6354 days ago 44 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch* Studies: Spanish, Russian
| Message 1 of 3 11 August 2010 at 8:36am | IP Logged |
I recently came across a plug-in for Google Chrome that translates some random words in
whatever you happen to be reading into your target language
(Fou
nd here).
Here is a picture of it in action:
Has anyone used anything like this before? How accurate can I expect this to be? It
seems like a great way to sneak in some Russian while studying for other classes, plus
it's easy to turn off and on as needed.
Fiona
Edited by FVerschoor on 11 August 2010 at 8:37am
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ALS Senior Member United States Joined 5809 days ago 104 posts - 131 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Finnish, Russian
| Message 2 of 3 11 August 2010 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
I use a plugin for FireFox called Foxreplace. It works on user generated lists instead of Google Translate, so it can be used for things other than languages, but this looks quite nice for random vocab exposure. I may start using Chrome more often.
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Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6016 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh
| Message 3 of 3 11 August 2010 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
It can never be 100% accurate, and I would avoid it like the plague.
However, it could ve better than FoxReplace as it is tied into the Google Translate engine, so it might take context into consideration -- but they don't say whether it does or not. It doesn't make it clear whether it makes any attempt at conjugations or declensions, though. I suspect not.
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