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You're absolutely right, we typically spend more time our our phones for most people. we're also preparing to port this feature to mobile, possibly based on the mobile version of Firefox browser.

I don't know a tool like this.

But this feature seems to be a fairly common requirement; we can consider add a switcher to implementing it.

Same, I love the idea - but I cannot read the hiragana/katakana (heck even: はい hai yes <- would work well).

Edit: Decided to make my own firefox addon to do it, no worry about daily limits and I can simply update a json file with more words when I feel like I'm remembering things.

I have a deep understanding of this point, a lack of vocabulary makes reading Japanese materials very difficult.

For this scenario, we will translate the Japanese text completely into English first, then inject japanese words in to the english text, the translated text with the injected Japanese words is displayed next to the original material.

This is the main feature I've been using myself, you can try it out and see if it's the feature you want.

I can second this, after finishing my intro Japanese classes I was able to parse the grammar of most sentences. Memorizing vocab was the hard part, so I used OCR on manga pages and then Yomitan to hover over and see word definitions (in English).

I was hoping to take a look at Linguaswap, but it isn't on your GitHub. Is it available anywhere?

Thanks for your feedback!

LLM's makes this kind of words substitution more easier and accurate. we have also tried some methods like NLP, but effect is mediocre, but if we want use it in specific scenarios, NLP maybe more efficient.

The website's visual design definitely needs improvement. we are currently work on it.

Second that. An Ollama version would be great :)

Really appreciate your feedback! we may have overlooked this when handling multilingual support, and we will optimize it in the next version.

we've considered using local llm, but the problem is that for a better user experience, we will add user's new vocabulary list, then inject words based on the list, it's hard to do this on local.

We will seriourly consider the point of support local llm, this will also allow more users to utilize our basic functions.

Thanks for your feedback, appreciate it.

I tried the above words in Chrome, and got the same problem. sorry about that, our tool is far from perfect. this is a bug in the extension, we will fix it asap.

Thanks for feedback, in some cases, we use a NLP lib to detect to language of the word since we support multiple languages, this may be due to language detection failed on some words.

Thanks for your asking.

Yes, we will prioritize support for Safari, Opera, and Arc. Support for other browsers will be added as needed.

Thanks for the feedback, actually we use furigana to show the pronunciation, we use LLM to produce the word explanation, this may be due to LLM instability, could you help tell me the word of this case on your side.

I hear this often but haven’t seen too many translation-free alternatives for the non-immersion tasks (eg: memorizing vocabulary for a standardized exam, daily study in a non-immersive environment). Have you seen any good monolingual techniques beyond “just get tons of exposure”?

I’ve been experimenting with monolingual vocab this month but it is too soon to say if I like it or not: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/korean-language/monolingual-vo...