>>I use a lot a feature of Google toolbar that translates words from Spanish to English on-the-fly. When I read Spanish text online I hover the mouse of the word and see a translation. I don't know of any other tool that does that.
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>In Chrome, if you go to a foreign language page you get similar functionality. You also get a toolbar popping up asking if you want to translate the page.
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>OTOH, Google's translate functionality is pretty sucky at least in context. Individual words might be fine, but whole text not so much.
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I agree that overall the entire-page translation is not so great. I am fluent enough in Spanish that only need to lookup a word here and there. And the individual word, on-the-fly translation, is sufficient. I might try Chrome. Thank you.
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