How To Use And Install Google Translate Extension for Chrome

As technology turns our world into a global village, the need to understand each other has never been greater. 

Google picked up on this human need early on and started working on creating a web translator extension for the world.

That is how ‘Google Translate’ was born. While the early versions of this webpage translator extension were still very rudimentary, the current version of the google translate extension is doing wonders to connect people and information.

In this tutorial, we are going to go over the following topics;

• How to install Google Translate Chrome extension
• How to use Google Translate Chrome extension
  • Example how to translate selected text section quickly 
  • Example how to translate an entire web page quickly
• Go over some frequently asked questions

If you haven’t added the google translate web translation plugin to your chrome browser yet, we strongly suggest you do. Adding google translate to chrome is very easy to do and incredibly helpful as it empowers you to get your information from any language source!

To add translate function to Chrome you simply need to download the chrome google translate plugin. 

 Google Translate can be found in the Chrome Browser Web Store as a chrome extension. Such Chrome extension is also referred to as an add-on or plugin, or app. So if you read about Google Translate extension, Google Translate Plugin or Google translate addon, or even Google Translate app, they are all the same. 

Learn how to install and use Google Translate with your Chrome Browser 

Step 1 – Go to the Google Chrome Store

Go to the Google Chrome Extension Webstore: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions

Note 1: The Google Chrome Webstore is the official Google web store, so you can be confident that these ‘Chrome extensions’ are legitimate, and safe to add to your chrome browser. 

Note 2: It is very easy to ADD + also to REMOVE Google Chrome extensions without any hassle!

Step 2 – In Chrome store: Search for ‘Google Translate’

In this case, we have chosen ‘Google Translate’.  This extension is currently installed by well over 10 million users and has been a favorite choice for many years now. Google Translate has a good history of updating their the quality of the translator tool!

Step 3 – Add Google Translate to your Chrome Browser

The installation is extremely quick and easy. Simply click ‘add to Chrome’ followed by clicking the ‘add extension’ pop-up.

How to use Goolge Translate To Translate Text in web page on your Chrome Browser 

Example 1: How To Use Google Translate extension to translate selected text!

So, now that you have installed Google Translate addon to your Google Chrome browser, you are ready to use the extension and translate any selected text online into any language you choose.  

In our first example, we are going to show you how to find the translate button so that you can quickly translate the selected text of your choice on a webpage. You can follow the steps to translate any foreign language with any website you’d like. 

This Google Translate function of a selected text is especially handy if you want to copy, edit, or share the translated text. If you are only interested in reading, we’d suggest you skip to the Google translate ‘translate entire webpage function’. We describe how to do that in EXAMPLE 2. 

(Note that extension installations are browser and user-specific, so if you want it installed in all your different profiles you’ll have to install it again or use the Goolge sync option to have your Google Translate extension available in all your Google Chrome profiles.)

In our example, we go to www.mimundovisual.com in our Chrome browser where we have the Google translate extension installed. 

Steps to use Google Translate to translate selected text on a web page

1. Select the text in the webpage you want to translate.
2. Right-click your mouse or trackpad. In the right-click menu you can observe the ‘Google Translate’ function right there.
3. Click the ‘Google Translate’ button
4. You now are redirected to a google translate webpage that has already translated that selected portion of text into your default translation language. You can select and re-translate that piece of text in any language you want. 

Note: Google Translate also has an option you can select in the user settings which can translate any selected text immediately on the webpage without the right-click, but we have found that function less reliable and therefore do not recommend it. For strictly reading purposes we’d refer you to our ‘How to use Google Translate to translate an entire web page’

EXAMPLE 2: – How To Use Google Translate To translate entire web page?

If you want to translate all the text on your screen, you can use a Google Translate function that allows you to translate the entire webpage at once. This is especially useful if you are interested in translating the text for reading purposes. For editing, sharing, and copying translated text sections we refer you to EXAMPLE 1. 

In our example, we are going to translate a full article of the Spanish website www. mimundovisual.com in English

Steps to use Google Translate to translate the full webpage

1. Locate the Google translate extension button next to your search bar on the top right of your screen 
2. 1. If you pinned the Google Translate you can simply click it immediately
   2. If you haven’t pinned your Google Translate extension, you can find it by clicking the icon for all extensions on the top right of your search bar. This icon looks like a ‘piece of a puzzle ‘.
3. Click ‘Translate this page ‘ and you are DONE!

The web page of this article is currently still in Spanish, simply on click on ‘Translate this page ‘ will do the trick!

Once clicked, you can now experience the entire wepage ‘excluding text in images’ translated in your default translation language. In this case, all the Spanish text is now in English!

NOTE: You can always REMOVE any Chrome extension