Pop-up is the core of GlotDojo. When you translate words on webpages or video-based sites, the pop-up will appears. It helps you look up words' meaning in 70+ languages, see pronunciation, images, definition and popularity of each meaning, part of speech and more.
NOTE:
This post is about the basic pop-up that come as default with GlotDojo. The advanced pop-up that comes with Premium Chinese/Japanese Add-on will be explained separately here (for Chinese) and here (for Japanese).
Pop-up breakdown
To open pop-up, you will need to look up words first. If you don't know how to, here's a guide.
1- WPA (Word - Phonetics- Audio) The word that you look up, with phonetics beneath and audio for pronunciation.
2- Pin: Pin Pop-up and move the pop-up around on the screen
3- GlotDojo Settings: change & edit all settings
4- Advanced Translation: for plain translation with Google or Microsoft
5- Language pair: quickly change to another pair source language and translation language to look up words.
(5a) Available language pairs.
(5b) Create & edit language pairs.
What is a Language pair and how to create one
6- IMAGE: view still images and GIF of words with built-in image search.
7- Referencing sources to help you understand more about a word: Google Translate, Google Search, Wikipedia.
8- The definition, including:
- Definition of words
- Part of speech
- Synonyms with similar meanings
9- Frequency: Indicates how often a translation appears in Google search.
10- Save words for review: This feature is coming soon.