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Similar browser extensions are made before. HN discussions: Language Immersion for Chrome https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3921773 Polyglot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669162
"UPDATE: Due to the shutdown of the Google Translate API, Polyglot is no longer being maintained. It's been ported to use Bing Translate but due to rate limits the service is relatively unreliable and cannot be guaranteed to work consistently."
I'm not convinced by this approach since I prefer to learn Spanish words in the context of Spanish sentences, but I haven't given it a fair shot. Of people who have tried this or similar extensions, did you a) find that you learned much? and b) keep using it for a prolonged period?
Being able to repeat the words i "looked up" is essential for me.
Very cool idea but slightly disappointed by the language options and constraint on websites. I barely use any of the sites it supports and don't learn any of the languages. I'm wondering how difficult it would be to pipe random words into google translate and replace them.
OH! And it works on other sites too, but that's "experimental" since it's not tested on all sites (which is why we put the on/off slider). Might be interesting to build a DOM parser- in the future -that figures out where relevant, "could be translated" content is in the webpage.
The idea of this plugin is a neat way to increase my vocabulary a bit and thus I have installed it. But one annoying thing is that I need to open the extensions popup page to click on "translate". I think that it would be nicer if the translation would just happen on pageload.
I will look into doing that myself maybe since the project is on github anyway, but I am at work now. :-)
EDIT: Created an issue for it now ;-)
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OH! And it works on other sites too, but that's "experimental" since it's not tested on all sites (which is why we put the on/off slider). Might be interesting to build a DOM parser- in the future -that figures out where relevant, "could be translated" content is in the webpage.
It was not very clear to me what the slider meant. Good thing that I read this comment section I guess. The slider 'on' means that the translation happens on all websites, whereas off it only happens on the selected sites?
Very nice. Would love support for German!
Sigh. I was working on EXACTLY the same idea. Well, looks like these guys have the momentum now and the product looks good. Good luck!