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I created a new browser extension for Esperanto

by niko0604, February 8, 2019

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Language: English

niko0604 (User's profile) February 8, 2019, 6:52:40 AM

I created a new browser extension for Esperanto called Esperanto Word Tabs. It loads a new new-pair in every new tab. It's a simple but fun idea. What do you think?
It can be installed in the Chrome Store:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/esperant...

Metsis (User's profile) February 8, 2019, 11:35:31 AM

Let me see, if I understand the idea correctly. For every tab you open you get a pop-up window with a random word in English and its Esperanto counterpart. And that's it.

What I have found, is that word lists like the one in Lernu, are insufficient for any deeper learning of E-o. Those word lists provide only "a horse is ĉevalo" style translations without any examples, how to actually express things. For that purpose you need real, mono- or bilingual dictionaries like PIV. Therefore I suggest to add into the extension a link to the explanation in PIV or some other real dictionary.

schnellfenster (User's profile) February 9, 2019, 11:18:38 AM

Good idea! Thanks, I will download okulumo.gif

niko0604 (User's profile) February 16, 2019, 9:24:59 AM

Metsis:Let me see, if I understand the idea correctly. For every tab you open you get a pop-up window with a random word in English and its Esperanto counterpart. And that's it.
You almost got it. It's not a pop up that opens. The random word-pairs are loaded in the new tab page.

Metsis:What I have found, is that word lists like the one in Lernu, are insufficient for any deeper learning of E-o. Those word lists provide only "a horse is ĉevalo" style translations without any examples, how to actually express things. For that purpose you need real, mono- or bilingual dictionaries like PIV. Therefore I suggest to add into the extension a link to the explanation in PIV or some other real dictionary.
You're right in that deeper learning of the words and their context is hard without examples and longer translations. I created this extension for fun more than language learning. I also wanted to give more tools to the community. I noticed that there are not many programs out there.

niko0604 (User's profile) February 16, 2019, 9:25:50 AM

schnellfenster:Good idea! Thanks, I will download okulumo.gif
Thank you for giving it a try! Let me know what you think and of any features you would like to see.

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