wulfgar Posted September 21, 2015 at 04:23 AM Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 at 04:23 AM For reasons I won't get into, I'm considering quitting LingQ and using a better tool to help me read. Here are my requirements. Must have: Mac compatible. Mouse over/pop-up dictionary with pinyin and english definition. Nice to have: Free. Memory of the words I know. Color coding of the words I know. Ability to edit/add definitions. Lots of other languages available. A site rather than something to download. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naijahusker Posted September 21, 2015 at 12:43 PM Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 at 12:43 PM Benny Lewis provide for free an online version of "Learning With Texts" (LWT). This is what I use. Unlike Lingq, you will have to import your own reading material and segment it yourself. Here is the link http://lwtfi3m.co/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfgar Posted September 21, 2015 at 06:13 PM Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 at 06:13 PM Thanks, but I'd prefer not to download anything if possible. I've heard LWT is pretty hard to set up, and I'm not an IT guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
naijahusker Posted September 21, 2015 at 06:34 PM Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 at 06:34 PM It is an ONLINE version. No download necessary. Yes the offline version is an arduous task to setup 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfgar Posted September 21, 2015 at 07:23 PM Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2015 at 07:23 PM Ah, ok. I'll check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfgar Posted September 29, 2015 at 04:04 AM Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 at 04:04 AM Wow - looks extremely difficult to set up. That's too bad; guess I'll continue my search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiLe Posted January 6, 2019 at 04:33 AM Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 at 04:33 AM maybe you can have a look at Vocab Splitter (http://www.vocabsplitter.com). Its functionality is similar to LWT and LingQ. It only supports learning Chinese so far, but it will support more languages in the next few months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiLe Posted January 6, 2019 at 04:37 AM Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 at 04:37 AM And also, for learning Chinese, Vocab Splitter seems doing a better job than LWT. It's because LWT can only split single Chinese characters and ignore the meaningful words which may contain multiple characters. Vocab Splitter can split the texts by meaningful Chinese words, which is very similar as LingQ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiLe Posted January 6, 2019 at 12:53 PM Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 at 12:53 PM Sorry I was wrong about LWT -- it can also split the Chinese texts by meaningful words. Is there a way to delete my wrong post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Posted January 6, 2019 at 07:18 PM Report Share Posted January 6, 2019 at 07:18 PM 6 hours ago, WeiLe said: Is there a way to delete my wrong post Not really any need to delete your post, you have clarified your mistake. It can ruin the flow of the thread so its better just to correct yourself in a new post. When you have made 5 posts you can edit posts and then you can fix the error in your post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted January 7, 2019 at 12:00 AM Report Share Posted January 7, 2019 at 12:00 AM On 9/21/2015 at 2:23 PM, wulfgar said: Must have: Mac compatible. Mouse over/pop-up dictionary with pinyin and english definition. I developed a program called Chinese Text Analyser that does this, but it's not free. There is a free trial though so you can check it out to see if it suits your needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webmagnets Posted January 10, 2019 at 01:23 PM Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 at 01:23 PM I made a bookmarklet that works on any* Chinese web page. It lets you click a word and see the pinyin. Then if you need the definition you can click again. I was tired of having to copy and paste text into a tool. Check it out at Pinwean.com. It is designed to gradually wean you off of pinyin. *If you find a web page where it doesn't work, please let me know in a private message. This is very much beta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VocabSplitter Posted April 6, 2019 at 02:09 AM Report Share Posted April 6, 2019 at 02:09 AM Give a try to VocabTracker, It supports learning Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Korean, Dutch, Arabic, Ukrainian, Latin and more language are being added and will come soon. To use the tool, you can install a Chrome plugin, which can let you analyze and highlight words on any web page (including Chinese and Japanese). The following is a screenshot of splitting Chinese text into words on a web page from wikipedia.org: It can also popup various dictionaries: If you learning material is not from internet(ex: from PDF, Word or TXT files), you can go to https://www.vocabtracker.com to import the text into the tool manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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