Reader Jay alerted me to Google Toolbar 3, now in beta:
Just wondering if you have tried out the new Google toolbar?
It has a great new translation feature that will help us learners of Korean. Configure the translation feature to translate words into Korean and whenever your mouse hovers over an English word, a box containing the Korean will come up. It doesn’t seem to work on all words, but the basics are covered. Now if only it would do Korean to English…
As a rule, I don’t use IE (and the Toolbar is not available for Firefox). But the Toolbar does work as Jay described. The 68.2% of my readers who still use IE may find it to be a useful tool.
Posted by kangmi on March 6, 2005 at 2:04 AM2 comments
The further I move along in the Sogang University course, the more I’ve noticed the poor sound quality of some of the audio files. I was grateful to read that I’m not the only one who noticed it:
Sogang University offers a pretty good online site for learning the language. Again, it’s not ideal. The people talk too fast (well, it’s never too early to learn that Koreans do speak their language very fast and sometimes rather sloppily) and on top of that, the recordings are not very clear.
The audio is usually good enough, but sometimes the quality is bad enough to make the actors completely unintelligible. In some cases, the actors talk over one another.
Posted by kangmi on March 3, 2005 at 8:16 AM9 comments
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