Mate Translate VS Wiktionary

Mate Translate for translating text from the menubar. Source: almost 2 years ago

I came across this app called Mate https://gikken.co/mate-translate/. Source: about 2 years ago

Https://gikken.co/mate-translate/ They have 100+ languages. The user can pick a word, say "Morning" and find it in all 100 plus languages. They also have pronunciation, phrases etc. I checked a few translations and pronunciations in some languages I know, they seem accurate and manual. Are there free dictionaries, datasets, pronunciations they are using? Or did they hire hundreds of people to compile this dataset? - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Mate Translate - Menubar-resident translation tool. Source: over 2 years ago

On macos you can add english→french and french→english in preferences in Dictionary, and then right-click or force-click on words in most places. also, maybe this is interesting: https://gikken.co/mate-translate/. Source: over 2 years ago

When you use the dictionary in English, as I tell to anyone learning English, the best dictionary is not a traditional dictionary, but is wiktionary.org, which itself includes the same definitions as the ones you've linked, but additionally contains "usage notes" that point out how rare and niche the archaic use of "America" to refer to a geographical continent is. It only comes up when you are talking about... Source: 11 months ago

For single words just use a dictionary. wiktionary.org works most of the time and usually is very informative. Source: 11 months ago

Wiktionary.org is very good if you can read Finnish well enough. I don't expect English wiktionary to have a lot of content. Source: 11 months ago

Two good resources to check for accurate pronunciation are wiktionary.org and forvo.com for a variety of voice recordings for words. Source: 11 months ago

For words, it helps a lot to look them up on wiktionary.org or dictionary.com and read the IPA. For example, "complicated" is a word which stresses the 1st syllable, but you've put the stress on the 3rd. Generally, the stress stays on the same part of the word as the root word (COM-pli-cate), and adding -ed or -ing doesn't change it. e.g. MO-ti-vate, MO-tivating, MO-tivated. Source: 12 months ago