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Learning Spanish on the Kindle? Hmm…
Posted on March 18th, 2009 4 comments
I spent six weeks in Argentina learning Spanish, and I’d love to keep up my limited skills by reading in Spanish. But, the fact is, my vocabulary just isn’t good enough, and whipping out a dictionary at every other word is too cumbersome.With a few relatively straight-forward changes, the Kindle 2 could really help out here. Amazon (or some clever hacker) could modify the existing dictionary to do translation. When you hover the cursor next to a Spanish word, an English translation of the word would pop up.
The technology behind this doesn’t seem so tricky. The Kindle 2 already has a dictionary that operates in much the same way: when I hover next to an (English) word, a definition pops up. Thus, Amazon would just need to swap out the English dictionary for an Spanish-English dictionary.
4 responses to “Learning Spanish on the Kindle? Hmm…”
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GREAT idea! Is kindle listening?
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muveee May 21st, 2009 at 07:45
Yo creo que generalmente Amazon no le preocupa el mercado de diccionarios, especialmente diccionarios de lengua Espanol – tu recuerda ‘gato satisfecho no le preocupa el ratón’…!?
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szlevi May 21st, 2009 at 07:50
Pero estoy de acuerdo, Amazon tiene que ofertar libros espanoles para Kindle epecialmente diccionarios – muy util tenerlo aqui.
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szlevi May 21st, 2009 at 07:51
PS: Why on Earth this OpenID shows different names for my two previous posts it’s beyond me…
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Anonymous April 13th, 2009 at 10:34