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Help me test my French dictionary extension for Google Chrome?

Salut tout le monde!

I am an MS Computer Engineering student and I've developed a French dictionary extension for Google Chrome called popupDic (short for "popup Dictionary"). The extension is designed to help beginner/intermediate learners of French who frequently read French texts/articles online better memorize new words that they come across. A short video tour of the extension's features can be found here: http://youtu.be/9eCLUmHCzvw.

The extension has been developed as a semester project for one of my courses. As the next stage of the project, I need to find people to test the interface. The testing procedure will last 2 or 3 days and is entirely online. It basically consists of reading a short French-language text on the Internet each day of the study. I will explain the whole procedure to interested parties but I estimate that it shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes a day.

If you find this extension interesting and would like to participate, please send an email to popupdichci AT gmail.com. In case it's relevant, I would like to say that I do not require any personally identifiable information from any study participant. Also, the project is due in the middle of next week, so it would be really nice to find some study participants by Sunday.

Thank you for reading.

Please note:

  • I am looking for people who are at INTERMEDIATE-fluency levels. Since that is rather a loosely-defined term, basically I'm looking for people who can read something like a news article in French online (perhaps something like you'd find on http://www.slate.fr) and still find words that they do not know.
  • The testing procedure is entirely online, but you will need to have the Google Chrome broser installed because the extension can only run on it (it won't run on another browser like Safari or Firefox, for example).
  • The extension is a dictionary app. It will only translate words piecemeal. It will not translate whole sentences for you. What it will do (hopefully) is to make it easier to remember new words.

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