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Skritter and Online Dictionaries

jcdoss   May 30th, 2011 11:32a.m.

I use MDBG as my primary Mandarin dictionary, and Denshi Jisho (www.jisho.org) for Japanese.

One of the things I find incredibly useful is, at MDBG, the ability to click a link and have a new word added to my Skritter queue. I love this feature!

Are there plans to do something similar for Japanese? I'd love one day to find a "add this word to your Skritter queue" link among the options at www.jisho.org.

Mandarinboy   May 30th, 2011 5:01p.m.

I think you can do that already. Try the bookmarklet. I use that for Chinese all the time. Add the bookmarklet to your browser, browse any page with characters, mark the word/character you like to add and click the bookmarklet and it is saved to your queue. I think that it is actually two different bookmarklet, one for Chinese and one for Japanese. Guess you need to log in to a Japanese session to download the Japanese version. You find it at skritter first page under tools.

DaXia   May 31st, 2011 2:31a.m.

我都不知道有mdbg这个网页词典呢。竟然还有直接把所搜索的词连接到skritter排生词中的一个功能啊。真的非常方便。我以前都是用nciku但是看来mdgb不但比它方便,而网速也比较快。谢谢楼主的建议!

Kai Carver   May 31st, 2011 11:11a.m.

I second @Mandarinboy's recommendation of the bookmarklet(s).

By the way @DaXia I enjoy reading your new, all-Chinese messages. It's work though! I should say I cheat by using the excellent Chrome extension "Zhongwen: A Chinese-English Popup Dictionary" https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kkmlkkjojmombglmlpbpapmhcaljjkde
Without the extension I wouldn't be able to read the messages, or I'd have to really cheat and copy them into Google Translate. With the extension I feel I have augmented intelligence! Zhongwen Goggles.

Ah that reminds me, that extension also provides an easy way to add vocabulary to Skritter: just press 's' when hovering over a word you want to add.

It's only for Chinese though, so a bookmarklet is still necessary for Japanese and for words or expressions that aren't in the extension's dictionary.

Grahameh   June 4th, 2011 5:22p.m.

Kai, thanks for the reference to the Zhongwen Chrome extension. It's great!

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