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This is an incredible App and an essential one for learning Chinese! One can access the dictionary by typing in English, Chinese, or Pinyin entries and then hear the pronunciation in Chinese. It's extremely easy to create customized flashcards and print them or print out lists. The reader feature is amazing, too. One can paste in Chinese and then "read" it word by word as as a whole text. And the OCR feature is extremely useful for inputting printing material and translating it word by word. It's now the only Chinese language App I turn to, and it has made my study of Chinese much less daunting.

I can't IMAGINE a more useful app for Chinese study. Versatile, comprehensive, and practically free...! What more could you ask? It saved me in Taiwan for the year I was there, and brought my vocab up a huge notch.

Very useful app. A must-have for any Chinese language learner.

This app has enabled me to learn more Mandarin in the past two months than I had in the previous two years. It's so convenient to be able to add flashcards directly from the dictionary. And I *especially* appreciate that the flashcards include characters, not just the pinyin romanizations. It makes it much easier to keep homonyms separate, even if you're not trying to learn to read Chinese. On the down side: the dictionary itself isn't wonderful. It's no worse than any other iPhone dictionary, but I wish the definitions had a little more to them. There's frequently more than one Mandarin result for the same English word or phrase, with no explanation as to which translation is better in what circumstance. But that's a common issue with most of the online dictionaries I've tried. One feature I would love to see is audio. I think that every little bit helps when you're trying to learn a language--if you can use your ears as well as your eyes it goes into your brain that much more effectively. Bottom line: this is the least expensive iPhone Chinese app I've tried, and in my opinion it is also the best. Thanks Klaus!

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