Browser extension
Take LingoMeow with you, on any website
Reading something in the language you're learning, out on the real Internet? Select a word or a line and get a hand with it — read aloud, translated, or looked up — without leaving the page.
Why leave the site to practice
The whole idea behind LingoMeow is that a language sinks in fastest around real, lived material — not sentences invented for a textbook. Most of that material lives outside the app: an article, a recipe, a forum post, someone else's blog. The extension brings the same reading tools there, instead of asking you to copy and paste everything back into the journal first.
What it does, right there on the page
- Select a passage, hear it read aloud. It plays exactly what you selected, in the language it's written in — nothing translated first.
- Select a passage, get a quick translation. A small card appears near your selection with the meaning in your own language, so you can keep reading without losing your place.
- Double-click any word. Same quick lookup as on the site — a meaning and a pronunciation — with the option to save it properly to your vocabulary.
- Save what's worth keeping. Save a passage on its own, or save the translation alongside it — either way, it turns up in your journal afterwards.
Same vocabulary, same journal
Nothing saved through the extension is stuck there. A word looked up on a news article this afternoon sits in the same vocabulary as one you saved from a chat yesterday. A passage you kept turns up as an ordinary page in your journal, ready to decorate, translate further, or turn into something to shadow.
Where it works
Chrome, on almost any website — the one exception is LingoMeow's own site, which already has all of this built in without an extension. You'll need to be signed in; the toolbar simply doesn't appear otherwise.
Also in the same book
Whatever you bring in from outside sits next to everything else — chat, journal pages, shadowing, vocabulary — in the same book, under the same account.
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What does the extension actually do?
Select a passage on any website and a small toolbar appears — read it aloud, or get a quick translation in a floating card. Double-click any word for a meaning and pronunciation, the same as on the site itself. Anything worth keeping, you save with a tap.
Which language does the translation go into?
Your own — whichever language you've set the extension to. It's built for making sense of a page you're reading, not for practising the language you're learning; that part happens back in the journal and the chat.
Do I need an account?
Yes. The toolbar only appears once you're signed in — the same account as the website, so everything you save lines up with what's already there.
Does it work on every website?
Just about everywhere in Chrome, aside from LingoMeow's own site, which already has all of this built in natively.
What happens to the words and passages I save?
They land in your journal and vocabulary, the same place anything written on the site itself ends up. Save a line and you get just the line; save a translation and you get the line with its translation alongside it.
Is it free?
Yes. The free plan includes a few translations and read-alouds a day through the extension, and word look-ups are shared with the twenty a day you get on the site. Pro removes the daily limits.