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Add link to Google news

Mandarinboy   July 5th, 2012 12:49a.m.

I like to see my words in context and one way to do that is to search for them in Google news. e.g. like this:

http://news.google.com/news?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=on&sa=N&q=银行卡

Is it possible to add such a direct link from skritter to get this directly? It provides for me much needed reading practice and tends to make the words stick better since i can see them in real context from daily news. In a way it is an advanced way of getting example sentences from real life. If i switch to the Chinese version I can also do a lot of settings to adjust my preferences but this basic link works well.

scott   July 11th, 2012 12:44p.m.

Thanks for the idea! I've added it to the beta site. Give it a try.

Mandarinboy   July 11th, 2012 7:24p.m.

Thanks a lot for this! It works great and helps me a great deal. Even though dictionaries are great they do not beat to see the words in greater context. This works wonders for my learning of new words.

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