Backword 1.3.5.1

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• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Date added: September 24, 2007
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Sadly, this language translation tool's plain user interface and awkward navigation will probably confuse users who aren't already familiar with English. In fact, Backword seems to have it backward with its stated purpose of helping people learn English.

Backword's Options menu features a very basic user interface. You can choose from nine different languages, add URLs to your list of favorite word-search sites and customize the layout of the pop-up translation window. The interface is in English, however, and it's not offered in other languages. As directed, we hovered our mouse over words on the Web. Some of the words yielded a pop-up translation and some yielded nothing. When the translation window did pop up, a translation of the selected word was displayed in our chosen language. From the pop-up window, you can send the word to a review page that lists the selected word, the translation and the source page/URL.

For anyone to benefit from this free translation tool, they'd have to already be pretty familiar with English, which makes it somewhat useless as a language learning aid. Users trying to learn English should look for a better translation tool.

Publisher's description

Backword extension helps people learning English. Features include: Translate an English word into French, German, Spanish, Russian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional or Simplified Chinese when mouse cursor hovers over it; With one click, remember all context of the word, such as URL of the page and the paragraph which the word belongs to; Get Pronunciation of the word with a flash; Write a note for the word; Search more explanation of the word with one click; And review all words and context collected on a build-in page.

This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

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