zhongwen

I don't know Mandarin, but I found this browser extension [1] very useful for quickly translating some words. It doesn't translate sentences unfortunately, but I guess you can use machine translation for that. I'm curious if/how anyone here has integrated LLMs for their language learning process. Also after you learn a certain amount of basic words in any language, I recommend trying to learn that language from inside out. Basically instead of translating new words to your primary language, look for a dictionary which will explain those words with basic ones you already know. [1] https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen

Hanzipopup Popup Dictionary for Chinese Language Port of zhongwen (https://github.com/cschiller/zhongwen) browser extension as UserScript for Android and iOS. A UserScript for browsers to show meaning in popup for selected Chinese characters. The UserScript uses zhongwen browser extension codes. Source https://github.com/krmanik/hanzipopup

This is pretty good for someone who can speak Cantonese but can't read/write it. As an example, I speak Mandarin and can't read/write (much) Chinese characters as I spoke it at home while growing up in Australia. So, I can imagine there'd be quite a lot who are in a similar situation to me but with Cantonese who would benefit from this (not just as a learning tool). I've been using the Zhongwen[0] browser extension to "read" websites that have Chinese characters for many years as hovering over Chinese characters will display a popup with the pronunciation ping yin. It may not be the speediest way of understanding a block of Chinese text. I could imagine someone creating a browser extension that would replace the font used on the website(s) with the Cantonese Visual Font when the extension is enabled. [0] https://github.com/cschiller/zhong