61–68 of 68 posts
Wikipedia currently has a Beta feature name Hovercards You can enable it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
I prefer Chrome's extension called Google dictionary. Every time I highlight a word, it pulls up a definition. Anywhere on the web.
This already exists on Wikipedia. Under preferences, select the Gadgets tab and enable "Navigation popups". When hovering over a link in a Wikipedia article, a small popup will appear, in addition to some metadata about the link, the first paragraph of the article will appear, including links that may appear in that paragraph, which can also be hovered to make another popup appear.
The OP's design for it is much nicer. Navigation popups have been around since 2005, and while in some ways better than the OP's design (pictures!) this is useful enough to test it as default behavior. Hover doesn't work on mobile, so perhaps they should appear if you click and hold for a few seconds.
Neat idea, but the article also made me discover Basic English and its 850 words. Didn't know about that, I think that should be mentioned when you learn English. Does anyone know of similar general purpose word sets for other languages?
This would be great. All my attempts at learning a new language are thwarted by the seeming daunting nature of the task. 850 (or so) words? I could see myself doing that (and then continuing on to another few thousand words.
I believe Tim Ferriss did something like this for learning Japanese. He made the list himself, but published it for others. It's in "The 4 Hour Chef" and probably on his website.
Wikipedia currently has a Beta feature name Hovercards You can enable it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsec...
Incidentally, this was what my diploma thesis was about. The basic idea was to have a single »text« that contains lots of possible branching or expansion points, depending on certain criteria. Depending on those criteria you'd get a expanded or contracted text to read that would be tailored to what you already know or are interested about. Altering the text in small parts (like [−1½] mentioned in another comment – I…
Neat idea, but the article also made me discover Basic English and its 850 words. Didn't know about that, I think that should be mentioned when you learn English. Does anyone know of similar general purpose word sets for other languages?
>Does anyone know of similar general purpose word sets for other languages? This would be great. All my attempts at learning a new language are thwarted by the seeming daunting nature of the task. 850 (or so) words? I could see myself doing that (and then continuing on to another few thousand words. I believe Tim Ferriss did something like this for learning Japanese. He made the list himself, but published it for oth…
I looked into this more (had an urge to learn Spanish today). Frequency dictionaries might be a good place to start. Here's the Spanish one I found [1]. It's a dictionary sorted by frequency of use (in a 20 million word text survey) instead of alphabetically. I imagine you can find a similar dictionary for other languages.
[1] http://speak-spanish.ru/wp-content/uploads/A-FreDictSpan.pdf
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I prefer Chrome's extension called Google dictionary. Every time I highlight a word, it pulls up a definition. Anywhere on the web.
OS X and iOS users can do this in Chrome and Safari, I think the shortcut it selecting a word and pressing Command-Control-D or something :)