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Really cool concept, love the split view. The voiceover feature is nice, but I think an inline dictionary would be even more useful - maybe something along the lines of macOS' built-in lookup (https://i.imgur.com/qGTQ80a.png)


> I think an inline dictionary would be even more useful

Yes this. It would make a huge difference for me at my level. I'm finding that I lose my focus on specific words. I can gather the general meaning from the sentence and/or paragraph but...

Translating the entire paragraph is too much of a crutch and forces me back into thinking in English. If I can get past the single word(s) with a click, I can keep my thoughts entirely in the second language. I suppose an extension could probably fix this...


Readlang is the extension you're looking for: https://readlang.com/

I've given it a quick try, and it seems to work fine with this site


Totally agree, we'll work on this feature next.


Ironically enough, macOS's dictionary is missing the correct (in this context) translation of refléchir in this example :)


I made something like that for myself some time ago: https://aprelo.wearekiss.com




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