Poor translations, delivered quickly
My girlfriend's a native Mandarin speaker and I've used this app probably ten times for various words. It has nearly always delivered results that missed the mark. Her little handheld unit is much better. But the app is responsive at least. Just not useful.
Scratching my head...
Type in "apple" and get "pingguo" ... But type in "pingguo" and get "no results."
Response from developer
The reverse is a bit tricky. It helps if you separate the words by blanks like 'ping guo' or, if you know the tones, add them as numbers like in 'ping2 guo3'. BTW, this is a great way to practice the 4 tones and check if you got them right.
Basic. Nice explanation screen, but..
For 我们 it wastes 4 separate displays to give the various meanings of we, us, ourselves etc. This means the scroll list gets stupidly long (what's wrong with "we, us ..."). Very nice that trad & simple char shown on meaning page, but otherwise average to use, esp. since needs 3 separate buttons to search explicit whereas others can auto-detect what you enter!!
Show more
**** Only
Star 1: Offline app with no WIFI needed.
Star 2: All words and translations are correct in all contexts.
Star 3: Quick and instant translation for whatever word you request.
Star 4: Free apps always deserve at least one star.
This app lacks 1 star because it doesn't tell you how to annunciate the word that you require itself.
Star 2: All words and translations are correct in all contexts.
Star 3: Quick and instant translation for whatever word you request.
Star 4: Free apps always deserve at least one star.
This app lacks 1 star because it doesn't tell you how to annunciate the word that you require itself.
Show more
Lacks audio support
This is great as a reference as it's all stored offline and seems to have a very large lexis included. Only wish it had audio to pronounce the pinyin like Google translate.
