Wordology
Adds a calque to foreign-language web-pages to aid language learning.
What is Wordology?
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Summary
Ask any non-native speaker how they learned to speak such good English, and you'll generally get a response involving watching movies with subtitles, playing video games online, or living in an English-speaking country. You don't learn a language in order to use it, you learn a language by using it.
Wordology is a browser add-on for Chrome and Firefox intended to help turn your foreign-language reading from homework into a natural part of your routine. Inspired by Lingq and FLTR, Wordology allows you to add translations for individual words and display them with a simple mouse-over. Words are color coded: green for known words, and red for unknown, helping visualize your progress. In addition, Wordology's "Smart Matching" heuristics will automatically detect variant forms of words such as plural nouns or conjugated verbs, saving you from having to add every single form of a word.
Wordology does not support phones or tablets.
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User reviews summary
Pros
- Functionality and simplicity combined well
- Useful for language learning and translation
Cons
- Only accepts single words and not phrases
- Strange implementation for marking words as "known"
Most mentioned
- Amazing and super useful extension
- Ability to hide red highlighting
- Desire for adding phrasal verbs or collocations
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Safety
Risk impact
Wordology is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Wordology if you trust the publisher.
Risk likelihood
Wordology has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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