App Profile: English Dictionary-TH, ID, ZH

hollyrayanne

Rating: 3/5

I’ve been using Nciku and LINE for a while, but on the app, I don’t see an option to draw the characters then search that up, unlike on the website. Add that and you’ll get 4 stars. If it’s already there, make it more accessible.

CvonD1

Rating: 5/5

After using Line for two weeks, I realized it is an amazing help when I am studying a lesson in simplified Mandarin Chinese: if I am not sure of what I heard or what I am reading, I can either use the microphone (with Chinese activated on my keyboard, of course) or hand-write the characters, and the app analyzes the sentence as it heard it or as you wrote it, then you tap “Analyze” and it gives you the pinyin AND the English translation. If I keep the phone a bit away from the sound source, it captures the sound a little better. I rarely have to do it more than once. Next step would be to try the app in a conversation with a Chinese Mandarin-speaking person. I bet it would work very well, as long as both speakers have a little patience to let the app analyze what is being said. It only takes a few seconds per sentence. The app accepts up to 500 characters at a time, which is a lot. This app is an astonishingly excellent tool, and I use it together with Pleco (Pleco gives me the stroke order of any word I need to study). A HUGE THANKS TO THE GIFTED DEVELOPER(S) OF THIS APP!

jozek46

Rating: 1/5

I’ve struggled with this for hours. It gives Thai as my default setting, won’t allow me to access Chinese or Indonesian, which I also downloaded, and when I try to delete the Thai dictionary, which I don’t need , and which prevents me from using the others, I get the message “ You need at least one dictionary”. It just doesn’t work if you happen to download more than one language, and, again , there’s no customer or tech support , and no directions whatsoever online for fixing this mess.