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:
- Useful chunks get a highlight after the line is segmented.
- 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 character will change.
Characters, no spaces, no tones on the page
Spoken Mandarin has tones. Almost nothing you read online writes them. The page also refuses to put spaces between words, so “where does this word end?” is the real beginner wall — not the existence of characters. The extension segments Simplified Chinese so a highlight can land on 苹果 or 已经 instead of a single orphaned character.
Measure words, 了, 的, and 过 are easy to drill as isolated cards and still miss in a news lede. Seeing them attached to a noun you already wanted to know is closer to how the language is actually used.
Be precise about the writing system: output is Simplified Chinese. That matches most of the mainland web. It is not a claim that Traditional Chinese is supported as a second target, and it is not a pinyin-only tutor.
English ↔ Chinese is live
English → Chinese and Chinese → English are both in the language picker. All 12 languages work with English. Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic 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 or claim Traditional Chinese as a mode. It is a reading overlay for people who already spend time in the browser.
Questions
Simplified or Traditional Chinese?
Glosses are Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans). There is no Traditional-Chinese mode. If you mainly read Taiwan or Hong Kong sites, this pair will still run, but the written form it teaches is mainland Simplified.
Chinese has no spaces. Can it still highlight words?
Yes. The extension segments Chinese before it paints. Word boundaries are genuinely hard; it will not be perfect on every name or compact headline.
Can I read a Chinese page and see English?
Yes. English → Chinese and Chinese → English are both in the picker.
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.