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| umiak Groupie Poland Joined 4324 days ago 51 posts - 77 votes  Speaks: Polish* | Message 1 of 5 07 July 2013 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
I'm looking for a good pop-up Portuguese-English dictionary (a one that would enable you to read the translation, for instance, once you've hovered over the unknown word with the mouse arrow in the text you're reading). Does anyone know of any? Alternatively, it can be a monolingual pop-up dictionary. I'm mainly interested in European Portuguese, but I won't mind if the dictionary is, for instance, designed mainly for the Bazilian variant. PS: this is my first thread, so sorry if I've posted in the wrong forum. EDIT: Ideally, the dictionary should have audio pronunciation of Portuguese words. Edited by umiak on 07 July 2013 at 11:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4659 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 2 of 5 08 July 2013 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been looking for one of these for a long time, but good Portuguese plugins for browsers are hard to find, or non-existant.
What I use nowadays for Firefox is a plugin called Quick Translation. It's not exactly a pop-up dictionary, but when you select a word, a button pops up next to the word. When you click the button, the translation is shown in a box in the lower right corner of the browser. There is no audio pronunciation, however, but otherwise it is the closest thing to a true pop-up Portuguese-English dictionary that I've found, and very easy to use. There is another (experimental but good) plugin for Chrome that I think had audio pronunciation, but I'm not sure because I don't use Chrome nowadays. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5074 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 3 of 5 08 July 2013 at 2:49am | IP Logged | ||
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Kuji is right. There is a Chrome plug-in. I read about it here on member erikspen's blog On learning Brazilian Portuguese. The plug-in is intended for Brazilian learners of English, but can be used by learners of Portuguese too. The article has a video that explains its use.
At my level, I use a monolingual dictionary. Unfortunately, I haven't found a pop-up for Portuguese online, but I copy and paste into the Priberam dictionary. By copying the word and pasting it into the Priberam window, I don't lose my place when I return to an article because the word is still highlighted. I also use Dicionário Informal and Linguee. Linguee has translated examples in context and is an excellent resource. With a Kindle reading is much easier. I have the Priberam monolingual dictionary installed and it is a pop-up. If you want to do some reading exercises, check out the exercises from erikspen at Reading Exercises: On learning Brazilian Portuguese- Messi vs Neymar. Hover over the underlined words with your cursor for a translation. He also notes below the reading selection. Boa sorte e bem-vindo ao forum! Edited by iguanamon on 08 July 2013 at 3:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| umiak Groupie Poland Joined 4324 days ago 51 posts - 77 votes Speaks: Polish* | Message 4 of 5 09 July 2013 at 1:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Obrigado. :)
I should have specified that I need a dictionary that also works with text editors. I've done some research into it. Maybe someone will find it useful: --at the website where the Priberam dictionary of Portuguese is avilable, they offer various apps that can be used with Word text editor. Here you can see what they offer: http://www.flip.pt/Produtos.aspx Some of the apps feature bilingual dictionaries. --there's also Lingvosoft Professional Suite Portuguese-English. This is a dictionary, translator plus some other apps in one. http://www.lingvosoft.com/LingvoSoft-Suite-Deluxe-English-Po rtuguese-for-Windows/ --Dicionário Aurélio -- a monolingual Portuguese dictionary. It works with the mentioned text editor: http://www.aureliopositivo.com.br/#/Dicionarios_Vitrine_Dici onario_Aurelio None of them features audio pronunciation of the headwords, however. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4942 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 5 09 July 2013 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||
You might want to take a a look at Goldendict. It's available for both Windows and Linux, and they also have an android version. It does take some manual set up to get everything working the way you'd like, though. Once set up, it will work with any text on your system, local or networked. It supports a few different freely available dictionary formats, and also has support for audio, either via Forvo or ABBYY Lingo. I've imported several Babylon dictionaries with good results. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful |
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