Background
I'm the developer of LinguaBrowse, a web browser for the foreign-language web. To justify why on Earth you should need such a thing, I'd like to explain where I'm coming from first.
I started learning Mandarin in 2016, and found it tough to persist at. My principal complaint was that I was sick of textbook study: I didn't want to learn how to give directions, describe the weather, detail my family tree or go through the typical curricular language-learning path. I wanted to jump straight into reading and conversing about the kinds of topics that actually interested me.
This is possible through immersion in native materials. But Chinese characters are notorious for breaking immersion: the characters themselves are time-consuming to look up in the dictionary; lack of spaces make the actual word boundaries unclear; and pronunciation cues are insufficient to know any character's sound on sight. All that time spent reaching for the dictionary eats into your time budget for mastery (not to mention your energy).
The solution
This is where LinguaBrowse comes in. It enables immersive reading in Chinese. Simply visit any Chinese-language website (go ahead and ask a native what sites they frequent!), and it'll have your back.
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Injection of pīnyīn into the webpage, live. You can hide the transcriptions to challenge yourself, too.
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Instant tap-to-define, in-app – never highlight or copy-paste a word into a dictionary app again.
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Words are immediately spoken upon tap, so you can train your pronunciation.
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A vocabulary list is automatically built from any words you find yourself defining. It's sorted by frequency and can export to CSV format (so you can subsequently import it into Anki or any other SRS app).
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Dictionary definitions default to English, but can be in any other language you'd like (yes, we have a Romanian <-> Chinese dictionary... I cannot guarantee its quality)!
I should also mention that it works for 30 languages in total, although Mandarin was the first!
Where to get it
It's available for iOS on the App Store.
No Android support, but please do indicate interest if you'd like me to develop one in future.
Contact
You can reach me anytime at Twitter @LinguaBrowse. My tweets are often about cross-platform development in general, but it's also the only place I really share LinguaBrowse-specific news.
Of course, you can also private message me on Reddit.
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