Language Learning and Translation Add-ons for Firefox
Let’s face it; a lot of people spend a lot of time in front of the computer and on the internet. Well it may not count half of the world’s population or a number near to it but let’s consider the reality that even people from third-world countries can access the internet through computer shops. People who are online tend to communicate with people from various parts of the world and there seems to be no bounds to exploring different things through the internet.
Learning a foreign language is one of the interesting things an average person who goes online can involve himself or herself into. If one knows how to communicate in more than one language, he or she will be able to accomplish more things perhaps engage in educational and business endeavors. How would you like it if your computer browser has tools which can help you learn a foreign language?
One of the most popular web browsers nowadays is Mozilla Firefox. It has a lot of easy to use features that is why it has attracted a lot of users. The add-ons which deliver various functions are very useful and can be customized according to the users’ needs.
If you are interested in translating and learning foreign languages, here are some of the many available Firefox add-ons you can download for free and use to your heart’s content:
- Backword. This Firefox add-on can help learn and translate languages. Its features include translating English words into German, French, Russian, Spanish, Korean, Italian, Japanese, and Traditional or Simplified Chinese when a mouse cursor is hovered over the word. With just a single click, the add-on remembers all context of the word and it also lets you know how the word is pronounced. You can also search for the meaning of the word with just one click and it lets you review all words and context collected on a build-in page.
- FoxLingo. Considered to be the ultimate language tool, FoxLingo allows web page translation in over a thousand and five hundred different language pairs. Its features also include searching foreign pages using terms written in your own language, automatically translating websites by recognizing their domain, and it has access to more than ninety language resources. This add-on also has more than a hundred links to language learning sites of different languages and it also allows its users to use it in complete privacy. It supports fifty languages including Afrikaans, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Filipino, French, German, Italian, Korean, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese, and a lot more! It also uses thirty-six web page translator services including Google, Ask, Live Translator, Yahoo, and FreeTranslation.
- LanguageBob. This Firefox add-on helps its users by revising and learning languages effortlessly. It uses the Smart Word Replacement format for no hassle learning and helps you learn languages naturally. You can browse the internet while LanguageBob will drip-feed you the language, you will be able to surf the net as you learn a language! If you browse in the English language, you have the option to learn Chinese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian or German. If you browse in either of those languages, you also have the option to improve your English skills!
- Firelang. Firelang is a language support tool that helps users learn foreign languages while surfing the internet. It includes noun colorization according to the noun’s gender and it replaces articles with interactive placeholders and fully customizable context-menu translation with a context logging feature.
The add-ons presented above are just few samples. The Firefox browser runs on various versions of Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS and other Unix-like operating systems.
So what are you waiting for? Download these add-ons on your browser now and start learning a new language!
For further reading about tools learning languages read the article that describes several free online tools for learning languages.
