Mandarin The Wild: Learn Chinese – Dictionary, Pinyin & YouTube Subtitles

Learn Chinese on YouTube, Netflix and any page: point at a word in Chinese subtitles or text for its pinyin and meaning in context.

Learn Chinese from what you already read and watch. Point at any Chinese word on a web page, or in YouTube and Netflix subtitles, and a small card shows its pinyin and the meaning that fits the sentence. A Chinese-English pop-up dictionary that reads the whole sentence. Keep the words you want, and meet them again in Review. Made for high-beginner and intermediate learners of Mandarin who want to read the Chinese they actually come across: news, forums, comments, articles, shows and YouTube videos. WORKS WHERE YOU READ AND WATCH • Any web page, in simplified or traditional characters. • YouTube captions and transcripts, and the subtitles on Netflix, Disney+ and Viki. • Google Docs and Word for the web, and PDFs opened in Chrome or Edge. POINT AT A WORD • Point at any Chinese word on a web page. A card opens beside it with the meaning that fits the sentence, and the pinyin. • Rest on the card, or press Enter, to see its parts: each piece with its own pinyin and meaning. • When a word could mean more than one thing, the card shows the options. When it can't tell, it says so instead of guessing. • Select a phrase or a sentence to read it in natural English, then go through it word by word. • On YouTube, point at the Chinese captions or at the lines of the transcript to look words up as you watch. • Press H to hear a word in a recorded natural voice, wherever we have a recording of it. • Can't point at it? Paste up to 1,200 characters into Explain text in the toolbar menu. Alt+Shift+M explains the text you've selected, or opens the menu. KEEP WHAT YOU WANT TO LEARN • Press M to keep a word to learn. It goes to your Backpack and into Review, with its sentence and a link back to the page. • Press K for a word you already know. It stays in your Backpack, out of Review. • You can change both keys, and neither one fires while you're typing. • Looking words up needs no account. Keeping them needs a free Mandarin The Wild account. • On YouTube, press M on a caption or transcript word to keep it with a link back to that moment in the video. YOUR PAGES, YOUR CALL • Pause it on any site with one switch in the toolbar menu. • The page stays as it is. Only the word you point at is highlighted, and only while you point at it. • Meanings are looked up on your computer, with the dictionary built into the extension. To find a word's recording, the card sends only that word, its pinyin and your chosen voice to mandarinthewild.com, with no sign-in, sentence or page address. Selecting Chinese sends just the selected text, with no sign-in, for its English translation. • When you keep a word, the word, the paragraph it came from and the page's address and title go to your Mandarin The Wild account, so you can find your way back. A short practice page opens when you install it, so you can try every move first. Your free account also opens the Library on mandarinthewild.com: graded stories and articles at your HSK level, where every word works the same way. Dictionary: definitions in our own words, built on open data credited in LICENSES.txt inside the extension.