Maori - English Translation
The Learning Media website provides an excellent and free online English - Te Reo Maori and Te Reo Maori - English dictionary. This page offers a web browser plugin to quickly query in that dictionary.
These plugins allow you to query the translation directly from within Mozilla or Firefox, giving you free Te Reo Maori - English translation. If you're looking to translate Maori words (not whole sentences yet sorry), this is the one for you!
Add the English - Maori language translation plugin for Firefox (or Mozilla)
Ngata English - Te Reo Maori Translator Plugin v1.1
Add the Maori - English language translation plugin for Firefox (or Mozilla)
Ngata Te Reo Maori - English Translator Plugin v1.1
Once you've installed the plugin, you'll have a new 'search engine' installed in the search box of your Firefox (or other Sherlock-capable) browser. Choose "Ngata English - Maori" or "Ngata Maori - English" from the menu (like this)
Type the word you want to translate or paste it in from the web resource you want translated, and hit the ENTER key. You'll get a lookup straight away from the Ngata dictionary ... ngāwari!
If you don't (yet) use a browser that's capable of using Sherlock plugins, just go straight to the dictionary instead, this plugin isn't for you. Oddly this doesn't include Apple's Safari web browser (ironically, as they created the Sherlock plugin format), and (shock!) you can't add custom search capabilities to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It works really well in Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers, which makes many of us very happy indeed. If you really like the idea of a browser that can have English - Maori translation added to its capabilities, we hope you'll consider giving Firefox a try ...
Comments
Hey, that's a pretty cool
Hey, that's a pretty cool tool. :) I refer to the Learning Media site frequently for the online dictionary, so the plug-in will be pretty hand.
Hi, Please would you repost
Hi,
Please would you repost the Ngata Dictionary Plugin. The link on Learning Media's site points here (as: http://giantrobot.co.nz/gr/tools/mozilla/ngata/ -not this, http://www.giantrobot.co.nz/blog/ngata-te-reo-maori-english-translation-... the page it redirects to)
But there's no plugin here! The link above just goes round in circles. (Yes, I've even tried in IE)
I am a happy user of the Firefox plugin, but somewhere I've deleted the Maori->English entry.
Hoping you can help
Paul Stockley
Inglewood
Cheers Paul - fixed now!
Cheers Paul - fixed now!
Thanks Mariana - looks like
Thanks Mariana - looks like I'll finally be able to make one that works for IE now - they've just released a browser that lets you add search plugins.
Wow, Microsoft are really catching up with the play these days ;)
I fixed the Ngata plugins
Some months ago I wrote a
Some months ago I wrote a quick Mozilla plugin to make the Ngata English - Maori translation service a little more accessible, giving us a nice friendly Maori word translation service from within the browser. Posted the plugin to MyCroft and forgot about it, using it occasionally to quickly look up words.
Offered at the time to let the Learning Media site take the plugin and host it, but never heard back ... maybe they don't use Mozilla and didn't get how useful it was :) Learning Media, if you're reading this: please, accept my offer and host the plugin on your site. It's a great dictionary, and this plugin makes it so much more accessible to people ...
The Ngata site got rearranged a few months later and the plugin was no longer functional. (Boo, hiss from crowd.)
Until now! (Cheers!) I've got it working again, even posted some useful instructions on the download page. here's hoping this is useful to lots more people than just me ... if you like it, let me know!
Wonderful resource. I would
Wonderful resource. I would highly recommend it and am doing so. I recon it is an essential in todays tech savvy world. Congrats. anychance it will work with Opera and/or flock browsers?
Thanks for your comments,
Disappearing plugins...
Hello again.
Thank you for your help last July. Now I have another curly one for you.
I have both e2m and m2e search plugins installed, but have had a recurring problem with one disappearing from the list. Several times.
I thought I was perhaps deleting them by mistake, but it seems that Firefox is somehow eating them...
What I've discovered is this:
My search plugins live in C:\Documents and Settings\OEM\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ykrq7ask.default\searchplugins
and both are still there.. along with the replacement I just reinstalled. Somehow, occasionally the m2e query has
?reosearchword={searchTerms}
'corrected' by Firefox (...?) by the deletion of 'reo'.
Has anyone else noticed this? Is it fixable? Why does it happen? What is the meaning of life?
Regards
Paul
Te Reo plugin admendment
I am sorry, what I meant to say was I wanted these plugins for IE, I have now installed them into Firefox and for some reason I thought I had saved them somewhere on my other computer....What I have found is that Ngata (" Click here to download the Maori Dictionary search plugin and search directly from your browser's toolbar.) has a plugin for IE7 so thank you I don't need any help....Sorry for the confusion, I installed IE7 and now I have the Te Reo on both Firefox and IE7.....Thanks very much....Mike
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