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1. Highlight English text on a web page.
2. Right-click the highlighted text.
3. Choose Ukok ñan Kajin M̧ajeļ / Translate to Marshallese.

Google Translate opens in a tab next to your page with the translation. Your original page stays open in its own tab.

The extension uses one translation tab so tabs don’t pile up. Each new translation appears in that same tab. To go back to your page, click its tab.

If you close the translation tab, the next translation opens a new one.

Your selection was too long. Google Translate accepts about 5,000 characters at a time, so the extension stops at 4,900 and shows that page instead of cutting your text short.

Select a shorter part, such as one paragraph, and try again.

Translations come from Google Translate. Machine translation into Marshallese is less accurate than for widely spoken languages. Short, simple sentences translate best. For anything important, check the meaning with a Marshallese speaker.

Most websites, including learning platforms such as Moodle, in regular page text and in text boxes.

A few places work differently:

• PDFs opened in Chrome: text translates, but paragraphs may run together.
• Embedded activities from another website (for example some H5P or SCORM content): text translates, but paragraphs may run together.
• The Chrome Web Store: text translates, but paragraphs may run together.
• Google Docs: does not work, because Docs uses its own right-click menu.
• Chrome’s own pages (such as Settings): the menu item may not appear.

Not yet. This version translates from English to Marshallese only.

• Make sure some text is highlighted first. The item only appears when you right-click selected text.
• Check that the extension is turned on: go to chrome://extensions and find Marshallese Translator.
• If you are in Google Docs or on a Chrome settings page, see where it works.
• On a school Chromebook, the extension is installed by your school. If it is missing, ask your teacher or IT department.

Check your internet connection and reload the tab. If your school blocks translate.google.com, the extension can’t work; ask your IT department.

Use it for instructional material such as lessons, instructions, questions and readings. Avoid student names, grades, personal messages and other private information: selected text is sent to Google Translate and saved in browser history. See the privacy policy.

In the Google Admin console, add the extension by its Chrome Web Store ID and set it to Force install for the students’ organizational unit. It updates automatically.

It asks for four permissions, none of which show a warning at install: context menus, active tab, scripting and storage. It does not request access to all websites, browsing history or the tabs list.

No. It only reads the highlighted text at the moment the menu item is chosen. It doesn’t add anything to pages or run in the background.