Rikaichan

[flonnebonne]

Rikaichan is an absolutely fantastic Firefox add-on for reading Japanese websites. Once it's installed, you can just hover your mouse over Japanese text and it'll pop up a translation/explanation.

To install: you need to download at least two files, the main extension and a Japanese-English dictionary (or French, German, or Russian). You should probably also download the names dictionary too.

To turn Rikaichan on: go to the Tools menu in your Firefox browser and select Rikaichan. This actually took me a while to figure out because the website doesn't tell you this very clearly and I'm also kind of daft.

Yay!

[Edit] There's also a website that does the same thing. You just paste the URL into a field and click a button to Rikai-ize the target website. Thank you, lucathia_rykatu!

Comments

[lucathia]

Oh hey, I've been using this site for kanji related stuff. Didn't know that there's a similar plug in too. :3 Coool.

[flonnebonne]

Oh yeah! I forgot about the website, probably because I've never been able to get it to work on my laptop for some reason. But I've used it at my work computer. Definitely an excellent site. I'll add it to my post. :)