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. Lookalikes that already match English stay unmarked — that matters more in Dutch than in most pairs, because so much of the page looks familiar.
The closeness is the trap
Dutch is the language English speakers under-study. You can skim an NOS lede and feel fine, then miss even (just / for a moment), leuk (nice, not “luke”), or a separable verb that parked its prefix at the end of the sentence. Word order in a dat clause sends the verb to the back; if you read it like English you invent a meaning that was never there.
Everyday nouns are often the ones that do not look like English at all: fiets, keuken, verjaardag, gemeente. Those are the words a government form or a local blog will use without a gloss. Highlighting them on the page you were going to read anyway is the point.
ij/ei and the guttural g are pronunciation problems. This overlay will not fix your accent. It will keep the written word in front of you long enough to stop treating Dutch as “English with extra letters.”
English ↔ Dutch is live
English → Dutch and Dutch → English are both in the language picker. All 12 languages work with English. Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, 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 claim Flemish as a separate mode. It is a reading overlay for people who already spend time in the browser and want the Dutch they keep skipping to finally stick.
Questions
Dutch looks like English. What will actually get highlighted?
Words that already match English and teach you nothing stay unmarked on purpose. The useful ones are the everyday mismatches: fiets, brood, leuk, even, and the verbs that jump to the end of a clause.
Can I read a Dutch page and see English?
Yes. English → Dutch and Dutch → English are both in the picker. An English page can show Dutch; a Dutch page can show English.
Does it include Flemish as a separate mode?
No. The pair is English ↔ Dutch. Belgian sites are still Dutch; vocabulary and register differ in the wild, and the hover is a gloss, not a Flanders-specific course.
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.