App Detail » LinguaBrowse

What's New

Prevent the click-to-define functionality failing on certain pages by resolving potential namespace clashes.

App Description

LinguaBrowse is the ultimate Safari Extension for reading foreign-language native materials. It assists in the study of 30+ languages, with special support for English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and German (see full list at end of description).

By adding LinguaBrowse to Safari, you can use the following tools:

• TAP-TO-DEFINE: Look up word definitions in a popup dictionary with a single click.

• DICTIONARIES FOR YOU: LinguaBrowse supports 900 different dictionaries, both bilingual (e.g. English→French and French→English) and monolingual (English→English and French→French). Note: dictionary quality varies; bilingual ones based on English tend to have the most entries.

• TAP-TO-SPEAK: Hear how words sound (via text-to-speech) with a single click.*

• TRANSCRIPTIONS: See how to pronounce words, for languages that don't use Roman characters (eg. Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Russian, and more).

• DEFINE SUB-WORDS: For compound words (eg. German compound nouns), define any sub-word. Disclaimer: may not work in all cases.

• NORMALISE FORM: Look up the definition for a word either as-is, or via its dictionary form (where available) for more reliable results.*

You can also show/hide transcriptions (to test your comprehension) and disable links (to define words embedded in a link).

*Not available for all languages.


SUPPORTED LANGUAGES TO STUDY

You can study any of the following languages with LinguaBrowse:

• Arabic
• Bulgarian
• Chinese (simp)
• Chinese (trad)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Hindi
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hungarian
• Icelandic
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Khmer
• Korean
• Norwegian Bokmål
• Persian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Vietnamese


RELATED LINKS

• Visit the "Support URL" to get in contact about bugs/feature requests via Twitter (or just tag @LinguaBrowse in a tweet).
• Visit the "App Support" URL to see documentation on how to configure LinguaBrowse correctly for your language of choice.


USER STORIES

Review from LinguaBrowse iOS:

"Living in a foreign country and doing plenty of reading in my second language is quite challenging for me, but this app has helped me a lot from menu to newspaper reading..." – yqiiil

"This is a great app. I've been looking for something like this for my phone to keep up on my Chinese reading comp. It's so convenient to have the pinyin on for words I have forgotten!" – phebebaba


PERMISSIONS AND LICENCES
• The App Store® screenshots show Wikipedia webpages, which are licensed under CC BY-SA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License
• The App Store® screenshots and App Preview demonstrate lookup of various dictionary definitions via https://glosbe.com, in accordance with their Terms and Conditions (https://glosbe.com/terms_en.pdf). LinguaBrowse is not affiliated with Glosbe. Contents in those screenshots are drawn from: 1) en.wiktionary.org, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/); 2) tatoeba, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); and 3) JMdict-Japanese-Multlingual-Dictionary, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
• To see usage licences for the LinguaBrowse logo, visit the "Developer Website" URL.
• For software licences, visit https://birchlabs.co.uk/linguabrowse/infopages/macos/licenses.html.


PRIVACY POLICY
By installing the Extension, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed with LinguaBrowse's Privacy Policy:
https://birchlabs.co.uk/linguabrowse/infopages/macos/privacy.html


TERMS OF SERVICE
By installing the Extension, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed with LinguaBrowse's Terms and Service:
https://birchlabs.co.uk/linguabrowse/infopages/tos.html

App Changes

• June 16, 2019 Initial release
• October 27, 2020 New version 2.1.0
• August 06, 2021 New version 2.1.2