3 Wonderful Google Chrome Extensions for English Language Learners

Learning a new language is one of the most difficult tasks you can take on once you enter adulthood. There are few things you can learn that will add more to your professional resume or enlighten you more culturally.

While learning English as a second language is no doubt difficult, it is one of the most useful tools you can have as a professional. There are an endless amount of tools and resources available today that can help you master almost any task at hand. With applications for better blogging, browser extensions for computer programmers, and much more, the internet is full of possibilities.

As internet technology continues to grow and expand, more and more endlessly useful tools and resources are popping up online. These three Google Chrome extensions are extremely useful and intuitive tools to help you learn English right from the comfort of your personal computer.


Phras.in

While learning the specifics of grammar and punctuation are essential steps in learning English thoroughly, one of the first steps in learning English is typically learning common conversational phrases.

Phras.in is a wonderful browser extension that can help people learn the eccentricities and peculiarities of various phrases in the English language. The extension has an intuitive interface that makes it simple to use and extremely useful. Compare two phrases to see which is used most often or which is correct. The application will show you the number of times that phrase is used through the web in real world sentences. This helps you decide which phrase is more common and gives you access to immediate examples of how that phrase is used in various sentences.



Add Phras.in to Google Chrome


Google Dictionary

This Chrome extension is one of the most popular dictionaries downloads available online and is extremely useful for English language learners and otherwise. This tool allows users to find the definition, part of speech, pronunciation, examples, synonyms, antonyms, and much more of any word they see while browsing online by simply double clicking on any word in the browser.

This dictionary has many other languages and tools that are extremely useful for any individual surfing the web. However, it can be extremely useful for users wishing to learn English online. Save time by having a dictionary right at your fingertips at all times.



Add Google Dictionary to Google Chrome


Learn English Assistant

This Chrome extension is an extremely useful resource for learning English at home. The Learn English Assistant extension collects various resources that are available online, so that you have all of your English language resources in one easy to access location. While this tool does not offer you any specific language guidance, it does make finding useful resources much simpler. The resources that this extension collects are geared towards both ways to learn spoken English as well as ways to write English correctly.



Add Learn English Assistant to Google Chrome

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Lyrics for Google Chrome

This fantastic extension for Google Chrome allows you to get the lyrics of any song on YouTube, Last.fm, Grooveshark and Google Music.

It’s very easy to use. If for instance you visit YouTube and watch a musical video on the address bar you’ll see the icon for the app; if you click on it, a text box with the lyrics for the song will appear on the right side of the video.



Learning English through listening to music is very amusing and effective. You can find some tips and more resources on this learning guide to learn English from scratch using Music.

Add Lyrics to Google Chrome


How Do You Say

This extension allows you to improve your level of English by getting real-time words pronunciation just by highlighting them on the web page. For example, if you visit the website for the English newspaper The Guardian, you’ll see on the address bar the icon for the app (the United Kingdom flag). It’ll be in a shade of grey and if you click on it and then on the “Enable” button you’ll be able to use the real-time pronunciation functionality:



You’ll then be able to select any word from the text and listen to its pronunciation. This app is really useful for learning how to pronounce new vocabulary.



Add How Do You Say to Google Chrome


American / English Radio

Last but not least, a great extension to increase your number of listening hours and thus immersing yourself more in the English language and improving your listening comprehension skills. This app allows you to listen online to several stations from the US and GB like Kiss, BBC Radio 1 or Pulse 87.

Using this app is very simple, you just need to launch it and select the station that you wish to listen to.



Add American / English Radio to Google Chrome

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