I have been very impressed with Google Translate for a while. The ability to translate chat’s, and pretty much anything is changing the way we do research. Well, here is another little tool to help in the process.
I read about a new Firefox extension today called gTranslate. It allows you to select text on any page and translate it to any of the languages that GoogleTranslate supports. Awesome!
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Hey, Jeff!
I’ve been using the gTranslate plug-in for a few months now. I decided that it would do me good to brush up on my Spanish and French reading skills (such as they are). gTranslate pairs well with my other browser-enabled learning strategy: setting Firefox to launch a random page from Spanish Wikipedia and another from French Wikipedia. I find that the more context you give gTranslate (i.e., the longer stretch of text), the better the results.
Susanne, that sounds great. What extension are you using to launch Firefox to go to a random page every time? That sounds great!
Hi Jeff. Thanks for another helpful tip. There is sure an abundance of great add-ons to make Firefox more accessible for an increasingly wide range of needs.
I’m not sure if I’ve commented here before, but I’ve appreciated your blog for quite a while!
–Paul
To launch the random pages, I just nabbed the random page link for each:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Random
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Page_au_hasard
and set them as Firefox’s home pages (Tools–>Options–>Main). You can set multiple tabs by joining them with a pipe (|) character. Love them tabs!