Leggio is a Chrome extension for language learners. Select an unfamiliar word on a web page or in a PDF, and see what it means with the press of a button.
Capitolo primo
Carlo Collodi, 1883
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Drills teach you the rules. Reading teaches you the language: how words sit together, which ones keep coming back, what a sentence sounds like when someone meant it. The trouble is that reading in a language you’re still learning is slow, and the moment you open a translation, you stop learning.
Leggio keeps you in the original. When a word stops you, its meaning appears right beside it, like the facing page of a bilingual edition, and the page you’re reading never changes. Save the words that matter to you, then carry on with the next line.
A leggio is the stand that holds what you’re reading. That’s the whole job.
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Io non so come andasse, ma il fatto gli è che un bel giorno questo pezzo di legno capitò nella bottega di un vecchio falegname, il quale aveva nome mastr’Antonio, se non che tutti lo chiamavano maestro Ciliegia, per via della punta del suo naso, che era sempre lustra e paonazza, come una ciliegia matura.
A news article, a paper, a novel, a PDF from class. Leggio works on web pages and on PDFs in Chrome.
The translation appears next to the words you selected, and the page stays in the original. You read on without switching tabs.
Save a word and it goes to your list, stored in your browser, ready when you come back to it.
Leggio translates with the models built into Chrome, so the words you select are translated on your own machine. The words you save are kept in your browser. There’s no account to make, no server of ours in between, and nothing tracking what you read.
Read the privacy policyLeggio will keep the translation beside it.
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