Just had to share a really handy new toy from Google. If you download the new version 2 of the Google Toolbar, then you also get the following:

WordTranslator
Ever need to translate words on English web pages into another language? Don’t bother looking up words one by one - just hover your mouse cursor over an English word and Toolbar’s WordTranslator will tell you what it means in your own language. WordTranslator currently supports translation from English into Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German and Spanish.

Once you’ve installed it then as your mouse moves across a word in a web page, then you will be shown the translation of that word in whatever language you’ve chosen. I’ve set it to French so it’s a handy reminder and it’s a useful way of checking your vocabulary. The toolbar is available for Firefox and for Internet Explorer.

Try it, you’ll like it.

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