Serious flaw
It’s nice that the phrases are categorized by social situations i.e. introductions, restaurant, etc but with no audio right beside it, it’s practically useless. As the Chinese guy said in the audio clip, intonation is everything because it determines the meaning of the phrase.
Missing Pinyin!!
They went out of their way to insult our intelligence by inventing a new phonetic romanization just for this app, and left out the tones! I don't mind the slow but accurate pronunciation -- that can be useful, but anyone even half serious about learning to speak uses pinyin. And omitting tones is outrageous -- you will either not be understood, or be misunderstood, without them, and they cannot be learned just by listening.
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Very shallow functionality and minimal vocabulary.
Useless
Couldn't find a way to use this once. No audio on most words you need. If your hoping to use it for travel forget it. Even lingopal was more help. I'm hardly going to buy the full version when the free one was less than helpful.
Meh
As everyone has complained, the lack of pinyin is annoying. They give you a sort of phonetic spelling of phrases, but is inconsistent. Some phrases ("The drugs aren't mine!") are a bit silly, as well. Not for learning the language, but not terrible in a pinch. Needs a lot more content.
