You run into unfamiliar words online all the time, but you don’t want to translate the whole page. We used to open a new tab and search, which gets tiring. As I wrote at the time:
As non-native English speakers, we sometimes come across unknown words or sentences when navigating web pages. Most of time, we open up a new tab and google for the meaning.
This Edge extension lets you select a passage and translate it into the language you choose, using Azure Translator.
It was a hackathon run by the Student Ambassadors program and the Microsoft Edge add-ons developer community. I built it with Yousra, the student ambassador who helped me run my first event; the same month we also prepared the GitHub workshop together.
Looking back, it’s a little funny: we wrote the extension in React, and the judges couldn’t build it, so they said it didn’t run.