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Welsh Translation On The Fly

Written by John Yunker Posted on by John Yunker

John is president of Byte Level Research and author of The Web Globalization Report Card. He is based in San Diego, California.

The BBC has launched a new feature for Welsh speakers who aren’t too fluent in English. The Web application is called Vocab. Here’s an article excerpt:

    Vocab lets users hold the cursor over a word and get an instant translation without having to leave the site.

    Developed by BBC Wales’ New Media department, the programme is available free of charge to Welsh-language websites outside the BBC. The device uses a database of 22,000 words chosen from the BBC’s Learn Welsh online dictionary.

    It is aimed at everyone from Welsh learners to fluent Welsh-speakers confronted with an unfamiliar word.

    Vocab allows a word’s meaning to be checked instantly without a reader having to use either a paper dictionary or click out of the site to a separate online dictionary.

It appears that Vocab will be expanded to support additional language pairs.

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