CONNECT LANGUAGE
Ryon Morrin (Hokkaido)
That’s a lot of wasted time. Immersion becomes a chore rather than something you enjoy doing. Now imagine you can skip forward or backward one subtitle at a time instead of in 10-second increments. Then, you can hover your mouse cursor over a new word (which optionally can show furigana automatically if it’s not added to your known word list) and hold the shift key, and a dictionary pop-up window appears immediately. The pop-up is entirely customizable; you can choose the order of your dictionaries, add pitch accent graphs and information such as word Migaku is a collection of cutting-edge add- audio, font and text size, the size of the window, ons for Anki, Google Chrome, and more that and more. Most importantly, it takes a fraction of make language immersion more streamlined, the time compared to manual lookups, reducing accessible, and efficient. They allow you to interruptions to what matters most: immersion. jump into native content without the hassle of Gone are the days of painstaking dictionary manually looking up definitions thanks to the dives. Migaku Browser Extension with mouse hover The Migaku Browser Extension allows for lookups. Say you’re watching a show on Netflix, and you come across a word you don’t know. the use of default dictionaries, but importing Normally, you listen to the audio a second time to your own is a popular option. Monolingual and make sure you heard it correctly. Next, you take bilingual dictionaries can be used depending on out your phone or open a separate webpage and your preference, and you can decide what order proceed to manually look up the word by typing dictionaries are displayed in the pop-up. For it into a dictionary. Finally, you return to the show example, if you’re in the process of a monolingual transition, you can have Japanese definitions and restart your program. In December, we discussed language immersion and its increasing popularity, especially in the Japanese-learning community. People are seeking the best tools for the job. There’s existing freeware ranging from great to barely passable, but Migaku is raising the bar with their language immersion learning toolset. While it’s still in development, Patreon backers and beta testers (like myself) have early access to this groundbreaking software. But what exactly is Migaku? It’s nothing short of revolutionary.
76 |
