How to see sentence translation in app?

Support & Feedback Forum
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Scenario:

I am using the app.

I don’t understand a sentence, but I understand the words (so clicking on words doesn’t help).

I can’t figure out any way to tell it to show me the translation of the entire sentence.

On the web version I just use the “Show Translation” menu option, but, I have not found that on the app.

Note: I don’t want to go to sentence mode because its navigation is bad (nothing ever tells you what sentence number you’re on, and there is no way to go back to a particular sentence number by number even if they didn’t conceal the numbers), and the audio is often very wrong for sentence mode.

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On Android, the sentence number is shown briefly on the top slider

  • when you enter the sentence mode
  • when you slide to another sentence
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Thanks! I don’t see the “upon entrance”, but that doesn’t matter because I do see the “upon sliding (either direction)”, which would be helpful.

(But I miss having audio with the text, and sadly there seems to often be some problem with audio alignment.)

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@zorbital “Show Translation” option in the menu is available on the website version only.
On the mobile, to view translation for phrase, you need to select a phrase. Tap and drag to select it. Or, you can use the Sentence mode.

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Thanks; I didn’t know you can drag to select.

But the popups get in the way.

How do you disable the popups in order to drag & select an entire sentence?

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It only lasts a second, but it shows.

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@zorbital What popup are you referring to? Also, keep in mind that you can select up to 9 words at once, that is the limit.

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I can’t really select anything most of the time because it pops up word definitions when I touch near a word.

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@zorbital I can’t reproduce the problem on my end. You need to tap and hold on a word and then the option to highlight a phrase will appear. Please give it another try.

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Ok, I tried again.

Same result.

I click and hold on a word, and it selects that word and possibly one next to it, and a big popup comes up and obscures half the screen.

(A) I see no way to highlight a phrase from there

(B) I also cannot see half the text on the screen because the popup is in the way