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| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5238 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 1 of 7 06 May 2015 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wondered if anyone had seen this "hack" on life-hacker about a chrome extension which will replace randomly selected words on a web-page you're reading with one from your target language.
The link is here Personally I'm ambivalent about it. I can see where it might help me learn new vocabulary in my target language, which is a plus. But having used Google translate (the underlying engine for this plug-in) I'm not really sure I would get the correct word. I wondered if anyone else used anything like this? I've not seen anything similar for Firefox or Opera. If you have used it what do you think? Either way, what is your opinion of this plug-in, extension? Is it useful to have randomly selected TL words interjected into the page you are reading in your native language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 2 of 7 06 May 2015 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's a firefox add-on but it didn't work for me :(
I think it's much more efficient just to read less L1 pages. Khatzumoto suggests blocking the English wikipedia etc. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 7 06 May 2015 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree that the question of whether Google translate would get the word right is an issue. The bigger issue for me is whether an occasional foreign word in the midst of English words is the kind of learning I want to do.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 4 of 7 06 May 2015 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
I like to use the English wikipedia to select "other languages" so I can find exactly what I'm looking for. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5868 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 5 of 7 07 May 2015 at 3:15am | IP Logged | ||
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I tried it for a while until it just seemed to get annoying rather than interesting and
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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4292 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 6 of 7 07 May 2015 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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It seems much simpler to just read everything in the target languages. I do this for
basically everything. No English at all unless I have to deal with an Anglophone or interact with an Anglophone. In addition, refraining from google.com, google.co.uk, google.com.au, google.ca, and google.co.nz if you use Google as a search engine for example, and using google.es, google.pt, google.fr, google.nl, google.no, etc. seems like it would be more efficient. It makes more sense to me to substitute all words 100% instead of just a few in the L2. I set the homepage in a rotating cycle. A different L2 every few weeks, and the default search engine in Chrome I have set to a rotating cycle, one of the non-Anglophone Googles. Edited by 1e4e6 on 07 May 2015 at 5:16am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 7 of 7 07 May 2015 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||
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My homepage is a blank page so I don't know, but I do rotate all my language settings all
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