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A Firefox Plugin for Chinese Student
November 30, 2006
Dictcn is a very useful learning tool. Just mouse over a word in a web page and it automatically translates it from English to Chinese with pronunciation. The voice tool is great and responds very well with the mouse.
The Chinese translation is handy for Chinese students learning English and it seems just as useful for English speaking students learning Chinese.
However, there is one thing Chinese students should bear in mind: one of the most valuable things I learned from my English teacher was not to look up words in a English-Chinese dictionary. She insisted that every student of her to use only English dictionaries. It seemed hard at first but gradually it had proved to be an extremely effective way to speed along the learning curve.
There is a brief description of the Firefox plugin at Google Code and it can be found in the usual Firefox extension repository.
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