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LinguaBrowse is the ultimate web browser for reading foreign-language native materials

LinguaBrowse

by James Birch

What is it about?

LinguaBrowse is the ultimate web browser 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).

App Details

Version
3.2.2
Rating
(10)
Size
197Mb
Genre
Education Travel
Last updated
August 31, 2021
Release date
October 23, 2017
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App Store Description

LinguaBrowse is the ultimate web browser 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).

It offers the following tools:

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

• DICTIONARIES FOR YOU: LinguaBrowse supports 900 different dictionaries, both bilingual (e.g. English→French and French→English) and monolingual (English→English and French→French).

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

• VOCABULARY LIST: Automatically build a vocabulary list of any words you find yourself needing to define.

• 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), adjust text size (eg. if Chinese characters are too small), and disable links (to define words embedded in a link). Web pages visited in Safari can also be shared directly to LinguaBrowse.


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
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Norwegian Bokmål
• 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

"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 Japanese via jisho.org. Usage of this website is given with permission by Kim Ahlström; details of the licensing for its content can be found at: https://jisho.org/about.
• The App Store® screenshots and App Preview demonstrate lookup of French words via https://glosbe.com, in accordance with their Terms and Conditions (https://glosbe.com/terms_en.pdf). Content in the screenshot is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 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 the 'Licenses' page in-app.


PRIVACY POLICY
LinguaBrowse respects your privacy. See our policy for details: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/38641550


TERMS OF SERVICE
https://birchlabs.co.uk/linguabrowse/infopages/tos.html

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