About
This webpage is a project during the HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript Course at the University of Regensburg.
Features
On the fly translation
You can enter any text or upload any text file into your
Workspace where you can read it
without major concerns about vocabulary:
Just take your cursor over any word you cannot recall at
the moment and a translation, if available, will pop up.
Also, in order to spare you precious time even if the
length of the text could be measured in meters, the
calculation takes place direktly when you need it. So don't
forget pressing the "show more"-button whenever the page is
done.
Language Select
Before starting to work you will need the correct
languages to translate from into. Those you can choose on
the left side in the navigation bar. Predefined are
English, German, French and Latin. Of course, that's not
even by far the extend of choices Glosbe, the dictionary
this site works with, offers. Therefore you can simply
enter the language code instead by choosing type in the
select menu.
These
are Glosbes supported Languages.
And
here
you can find Wikipedias collection of the ISO 639-3
language codes used by glosbe, e.g.
- acx (Arabic)
- bar (Bavarian)
- cdo (Chinese)
- dan (Danish)
- grc (Ancient Greek)
- pol (Polish)
- rus (Russian)
- sco (Scots)
- spa (Spanish)
Single Translation
If you want to know some word that does not occur in your
text or another form of it is asked for, simply use the
translation field static to the left.
In case you forgot to switch the languages, the translation
field below will tell you.
Vocabulary Sheet
Several more features will assist you training your text
understanding and vocabulary: Create your
own Vocab Sheet to
save, send, print and take wherever you go.
Any translation, as well in the translation section to
the left as in any translation container for a word in the
test, is clickable and will directly appear as entry in
the vocabulary sheet below. Furthermore it's possible to
add your own translation if you found a better one or want
to take a note on some specialty. This can be done in any of the
translation containern of the text.
Once added you can also remove them individually in case
there's no need for the entry or delete the whole list.
When you feel your vocabulary list is long enough for the
moment and you want to take it with you, go to the vocab
sheet and click the Download-button - your Browser will
supply you with a HTML-version of the current collection.
Thanks
Thanks to all those, who tirelessly assisted me building this
page, no matter how discouraging my problems and questions
were.
(And of course to those I left without me working on
it!)