The web is truly worldwide, the epitome of globalization and the ever-shrinking world. As much as the McDonaldization of the world means that cultures are on an homogenizing course, there are still plenty of differences to embrace -- language is one of them. Spend just a little time surfing the web and there's a reasonable chance that you'll encounter a foreign language site, or at least a few words and phrases that are beyond your high school French and Latin.
Enter stage right Google Translate. This service of course n'est pas nouveau. In fact Google Translate has been around for ages. Mais maintenant il y a un Chrome extension that makes the translation process easier than ever. Oubliez visiting a dedicated website, now your translation is a mere click away.
Grab yourself a copy of the newly announced Google Translate Chrome extension and you'll be able to quickly translate passages of text or individual words by highlighting and right clicking. This is a handy option if you're reading an article that contains a few foreign words, but you still have the ability to translate entire pages.
Chrome will usually offer to translate web pages that are written in a foreign language, but should this not happen automatically, you can instigate it manually. Rather than highlighting words to translate, just click the Google Translate toolbar button in Chrome and the whole page will be converted to the language of your choice.
Grab a copy of the extension and get translating!
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