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How to quickly translate words in Kindle app

If English is not your primary linguistic communication, simply if you want to read in it as much as you can, y'all will notice this elementary tip useful. The fox is actually fast and is using the feature to look up reference in Google web search. You can interpret words in Kindle app (iOS, Android, other platforms, also), simply also in other e-reading applications that offer Google lookup.

"Sure," yous can say, "Why not using a built-in lexicon?" I use a dictionary by default, just sometimes a clarification in English is too hard for me, and I tin't figure out a proper Smooth word. In such cases power to quickly interpret this discussion to a mother natural language would solve the problem.

At that place are lots of translating apps for iOS, Android and any other mobile operating system. The problem is that sometimes it's a couple of taps too far to use them. You demand to switch to another awarding, type a discussion once more (or paste it, if there was an selection to copy it in the east-reading app). So you take to switch dorsum to the e-reading app.

How to speedily interpret words in Kindle app

1. When you find a word you want to translate, highlight it, and at the lesser of the explanation window, tap on a Google link.

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You lot'll encounter a Google search page in an inline browser:

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ii. Now, hither comes the trick. In a search box add together ii words that tell Google to find a translation. The phrase is "to Polish", or "to Italian", or "to Portuguese", etc. Please note that information technology should be stated in English, non in your mother tongue. The other phrase that also does the chore is "in Smoothen", "in Italian", etc.

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Tap on Search push and you'll see a translation as on a screenshot below:

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I told you lot it's gonna be quick. As you meet, y'all don't have to get to a special Google Interpret page. It'south but a matter of typing a few words. If you want to be even quicker in iOS, yous tin add together the phrase (like in my case "to Polish") to shortcuts. To do that, open up Settings, so Keyboard, then scroll down to bottom and tap on Add New Shortcut.

Kindle app lets find a Google reference in an inline browser, so to close the search you lot simply take to tap on Done push in the top correct corner. I tested the Google fox in the iBooks, Kobo, and Bluefire Reader apps and it besides work, simply in the first two apps, the Ascertain characteristic redirects to Safari, and then you lot'll need to get back to the due east-reading app every time after the translation is beingness performed.

A good thing most Google Interpret is that you don't have to download to Kindle app the lexicon in other linguistic communication (for example a German language one) if you lot want to await upwards for a word in German linguistic communication. Google detects the original language, then that you tin translate words from any language to any language.

In full general, I'grand amazed with how proficient is Google Translate. Combined with a very well designed and fast mobile interface it can exist a solution to most of the translation tasks you accept on a tablet or smartphone. No extra apps needed.

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