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Gloss teaches you foreign languages by automatically using Google Translate to translate a few of the words and phrases on the sites you visit into the language of your choice. Each time you load a new web page or new content in Chrome some of the words on the page are translated into the language you’re learning, marked in bright red. This lets you learn the words in context while you browse the Internet.
You can disable or enable translation for specific websites or for all web pages by clicking the icon in the Chrome toolbar. There’s also a snooze button you can click if you just want to take a short break. You can read the original untranslated text or hear the pronunciation of a phrase by hovering over the translation.
Gloss selectively picks combinations of common nouns, verbs, adjectives and articles that will be particularly useful to learn. It includes preceding articles and grammatically significant words to help you learn verb conjugations and tenses, adjective forms and noun genders. It also makes sure to pick the same phrases for translation each time you revisit a web page so that you can reinforce the same words and phrases multiple times. When used alongside more traditional language learning tools like books and courses it’s a great way to learn new terms and reinforce existing vocabulary.
We support over thirty languages completely free including Spanish, French, German, Latin, Italian, Japanese, Chinese and Russian. We’re constantly working to add new languages – please contact us if there’s a specific one you’d like to see soon.
Learn more from our FAQ at https://www.glossolaliasoftware.com/
Supported Languages:
Arabic
Bengali
Bulgarian
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Croatian
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latin
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Scots Gaelic
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Under rated, i never write reviews for anything but this is so good i couldn’t help myself
I thought of this concept and then found Gloss. It’s what I was looking for. I hope the developer considers expanding this further to maybe allow us to customize how many of the words are translated (such as 1% to 100%) or letting us click on translations and selecting “known” and then it will always include that translation but add more. Good work.
Simple and effective. As far as I can tell it is the only Chrome extension for replacing text in a webpage with Norwegian. My one request would be that you update the text-to-speech engine for the Norwegian pronunciation. It isn’t accurate for Norwegian at all. I’d recommend pulling in Google Translate’s audio pronunciation, if that’s possible.
Thank you very much! Vielen Dank!
I have tried all the extensions that do this and this is the best one, works very consistently and picks good words to translate in context. the only addition i would like is to be able to control the amount of words translated. So eventually i could get to 50% or even more words as my comprehension grows.
Thank you for this really good extension that helps me learn German. Keep up the good work!
Love this! And recommending it to family/friends. Works exactly as hoped.
Just came to say this, this has been ONE OF THE BEST language learning tools I’ve ever used. From seeing Spanish in context of things I’m doing daily, I’m finally starting to feel like I’m getting somewhere with the language. Amazing idea. Wish this was available for mobile as well. Thank you!
It should have an options to setting the minimum length of word to translate.
Terrible. I wanted it to help me learn Korean, instead it’s just sitting there doing nothing
While pretty useful, even the “advanced” learning option translates mostly basic phrases.
I’m leaving a review because of a big flaw: even when disabled on Facebook it messes up my web Messenger app to the point that it refuses to display the list of conversations, on occasion doesn’t display the text typing field, and restores chat colours to default Facebook blue (minor nitpick, but in addition to the other problems it was very annoying); this all happened within 10 minutes of installing the extension. While it has potential it’s hardly on the level of a paid app. I might activate it when going on a Wikipedia spree.
Really helping me learn, easy to turn off if I really need to focus on the web page. I use it on reddit so my time wasting turns into great learning!
I want to remove this app forever!