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19 Feb, 2008

Translate Text from WebPage Inline

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Google| Student Tools

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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!

4 Responses to "Translate Text from WebPage Inline"

1 | Suzanne Cadwell

February 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am

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.

2 | Jeff VanDrimmelen

February 19th, 2008 at 10:17 am

Susanne, that sounds great. What extension are you using to launch Firefox to go to a random page every time? That sounds great!

3 | Paul Hamilton

February 19th, 2008 at 10:27 am

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

4 | Suzanne Cadwell

February 19th, 2008 at 10:51 am

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!

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