How it works
Enable the extension on a site you read. It highlights useful words in the article, not a separate lesson window. Hover a highlight to see the meaning. Chrome itself stays in English.
The loop is short on purpose:
- Words that are worth noticing get a highlight.
- Hover (or tap the highlight) for the translation.
- Keep reading. The page does not become a worksheet.
Coverage is a slider, not a promise that every word will change.
RTL, connected letters, almost no vowels
Arabic learners often meet the language as isolated, fully vowelled textbook words. A news site is the opposite: right-to-left, letters joined, and short vowels left off. كتب on a page does not tell you which vowels the writer heard. The hover gives a meaning for that written form in that sentence.
Hamza and alef variants (أ, إ, آ, ا) look interchangeable until a dictionary search fails. The engine folds some of those shapes so a word can still be found. That is plumbing, not a claim that spelling no longer matters.
Dialects are what people speak. Most of the Arabic you will actually browse — newspapers, ministry pages, Wikipedia — is Modern Standard. This pair does not pretend to be Egyptian or Levantine lessons. If you already study a dialect, treat the hover as MSA support on the written web.
English ↔ Arabic is live
English → Arabic and Arabic → English are both in the language picker. All 12 languages work with English. Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean are bidirectional (EN↔). Hebrew is English → Hebrew.
What this is not
It is not a course, a streak, or a classroom. It does not teach handwriting, and it does not claim dialect coverage. It is a reading overlay for people who already spend time in the browser.
Questions
Modern Standard Arabic or a dialect?
The pair is English ↔ Arabic. Most news and official sites you will read are Modern Standard Arabic, usually without short-vowel marks. There is no Egyptian, Levantine, or Gulf mode.
Does it work on right-to-left pages?
Yes. Arabic is a shipped pair in both directions. Tokenization has to respect RTL and letter shaping; the page should stay readable.
What about tashkeel (vowel marks)?
Most of the web omits them. The hover is a meaning for the written form on the page, not a promise that every short vowel will be restored.
Price
There is a free week, then $5 a month. Cancel anytime. No user counts or review scores on this page — those belong on the Chrome Web Store listing if they exist.