Using Chrome extensions to supplement learning

Posts114Likes81Joined8/10/2018LocationPH
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English, Tagalog
Learning Japanese

Do you guys think that using extensions like rikaikun can be beneficial to reading native level sites? I've heard that it can serve as a way to slowly understand hard text. Anyone tried it?


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Chinese - Mandarin, English, Chinese - Cantonese
Other French, Indonesian, Russian, Thai, Vietnamese

My friend suggested google translate as a chrome extension.


The google translate chrome extension translates words you highlight when you hover over them. I try to read as much as possible in the foreign language, and for individual words that I don't know, I highlight them. It is a less disruptive way of reading - I used to toggle between windows to get the translation.. 

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Learning Italian
Other Chinese - Mandarin, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai

Yes, I think it's beneficial, but I prefer reading tools like the one we have.

Learning Italian every day!

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