About
LinguaBrowse is an iPhone/iPad web browser for reading foreign languages. It makes online native materials accessible by breaking down language barriers.
Whether you're reading Japanese, Chinese, Russian, French, English, or any other major language: this app gives you everything you need to understand the text fully.
Features
Phonetic marking
Annotate scripts with phonetic characters simply by tapping the 'abc' button shown below in-app.
Currently showing Japanese. See: Mandarin
Tap to define
Tap words to instantly look them up in a dictionary, using the iOS built-in dictionaries*, or online dictionaries as a fallback.
* These must be installed via Settings > Dictionaries.
Collect vocabulary
Each word you define will be added to a frequency-sorted vocabulary list for future reference, and can be exported to CSV format (e.g. for use in Spaced Repetition Systems such as Anki).
Tap to speak
Tap words to use iPhone's text-to-speech function to speak them. 37 different voices, covering 24 languages (with multiple accents and dialects) are available as detailed in the next section.
Supported languages
LinguaBrowse supports to varying degrees 30 different languages:
* Phonetic annotation is not applicable to languages using Roman characters
Language |
Tap-to-speak |
Tap-to-define |
Phonetic annotation* |
---|---|---|---|
Japanese | ✓ | ||
Mandarin (simp. & trad.) | ✓ | ||
Korean | ✓ | ||
Russian | ✓ | ||
Thai | ✓ | ||
English | ✓ | N/A | |
French | ✓ | N/A | |
Spanish | ✓ | N/A | |
German | ✓ | N/A | |
Danish | ✓ | N/A | |
Italian | ✓ | N/A | |
Dutch | ✓ | N/A | |
Swedish | ✓ | N/A | |
Portuguese | ✓ | N/A | |
Turkish | ✓ | N/A | |
Czech | ✓ | ✗ | N/A |
Slovak | ✓ | ✗ | N/A |
Romanian | ✓ | ✗ | N/A |
Polish | ✓ | ✗ | N/A |
Icelandic | ✗ | ✗ | N/A |
Norwegian | ✗ | ✓ | N/A |
Hungarian | ✗ | ✗ | N/A |
Croatian | ✗ | ✗ | N/A |
Finnish | ✓ | ✗ | N/A |
Bulgarian | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Arabic | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Ukrainian | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Hebrew | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Cantonese | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Greek | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |