I thought other Skritter users might like to know that there's a new version of this fantastic Firefox plug-in available.

As before, Perapera-kun provides a pop-up of the pinyin/definition when you put your cursor over a character on a website. Now it also lets you save those characters (with pinyin/definitions) to a list which you can then export (and then import into Skritter, obviously!)

太好了! That is nice to know. I will have to checkout that plugin again.

SWEET! I just tried it and it's awesome. Here are the steps I followed:

1) Get Perapera-kun from here by clicking "Add to Firefox": https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3349

2) Restart Firefox

3) Get the Chinese-English dictionary from here:
http://www.box.net/shared/eephotibsj

4) Restart Firefox

5) Click the Perapera-kun icon in the lower right corner of Firefox to activate it

6) Start mousing over words and hitting "S" to save them.

7) Choose "Select -> All" to select all the entries you saved.

8) Choose "Entries -> Copy" and put them in a custom list or your queue. I've set up a custom list for myself called "Perapera-kun Words", and I'm going to make a new section for each day that I use it to add new words, like 12/01/2009, 12/04/2009, etc.

Then you can just repeat steps 5-8 whenever you're reading a Chinese web page. It's actually really fast and easy, so everyone should definitely try it. Perapera-kun also makes reading any Chinese web site easy. So glad it's operational again without hacking!

I have to say, I've been using it for a while and it makes reading Chinese TOO easy. I think I rely on it as a crutch and as a result I am not learning to read as quickly as I should.

James

Yes, that's very true, James. I don't learn much if I overuse Perapera-kun. I have to concentrate and try to read the word and only use Perapera-kun to look it up if I can't get it. Gotta try for that active recall, just like when practicing on Skritter.

What a great tool. Although I can see the sense in the overuse issue I think one can quite easily avoid that by first switching the addon off, trying without it and then activating it for the bits one couldn't manage. I will now definitely spend more time on Chinese websites ...before it was just too annoying always looking up the key words.

If anyone didn't quite get how to install the dictionnary on the first go (like me:), you have to open it using Firefox. Perhaps with other versions it does that itself....with me it didn't.