I just recommended someone to use Firefox for its excellent translation capability. And I think my reply warrants an entire post, so here is a copy of my reply. This is just a reminder that you can visit websites with other languages too. However Japanese and Korean are not supported yet, which would be helpful for me. Hopefully they add the support soon. But for German in example it works:

You could use a translation tool, for something that looks interesting to you. At least Firefox makes this easy, with its builtin translation functionality (without Google as far as I understand, and I think local/offline only, but can be wrong). Firefox is my main way to interact with Lemmy:

Directly in the addressbar for non native languages:

Or through menu:

BTW I just saw the link that describes it: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation

Note: Unlike other browsers that rely on cloud services, Firefox keeps your data safe on your device. There’s no privacy risk of sending text to third parties for analysis because translation happens on your device, not externally.

One more reason to use Firefox.

Edit: User Lazycog in the comments pointed out that you can also open a new tab for free text translations. Type about:translations in the addressbar and you get this:

Edit: Another user Arthur Besse in the comments pointed out that you can translate current selection only too. And you need to install language packs, so those will be available offline too. Otherwise its online connected I assume.

Select text and right click, so you can translate that part only:

Go to Firefox General Settings page, scroll down to Translations section and download the packages you need. Also checkout what its own settings has to offer, for some customization:

  • Lucki@feddit.org
    41·
    2 days ago

    Sadly the translations are shit and even worse than the infamous Google translator. Nothing comes even close to DeepL. At least it’s local though.

    • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      For me it’s been actually pretty good. But I guess it could be language dependent

    • thingsiplay@beehaw.orgOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      I wouldn’t say its shit, although I don’t have extensive experience. Need to test this more. At least it works and for privacy focused people its better than nothing. I don’t expect it to rival Ai supported translation that are capable of very complex and good translations like DeepL.

      • astro_ray@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I have noticed that translation of closely related languages are better in Firefox. Although I also feel that is true foe almost all translators

      • Lucki@feddit.org
        2·
        2 days ago

        Well, it’s the same AI supported translation running locally, so I very much expect it rivaling the online service.

    • Arthur BesseA
      2·
      1 day ago

      in my experience DeepL has the best results for some language pairs while Google is better for others (and has a lot more languages).

      But, these days I’m happy to say Firefox translate is the first thing I try and it is often sufficient. I mostly only try the others now when the Firefox result doesn’t make sense or the language is unsupported.