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I had the audacity this week to overestimate my tiny Chinese capabilities and try to learn some Mandopop song lyrics. The lyrics weren't available by default with the American iTunes Store, but I was able to go to Mojim.com and find the lyrics.
What I found was that there are SOOOOOO many characters I've never seen before used in the songs. Even using the Reader, I recognized hardly any of the characters. That's when I realized it would be fantastic to have both the PinYin and the Characters shown simultaneously. What I'm talking about is something like you see in Groundfinch or Readmersion (both iOS apps...see attached image for example of Groundfinch).
I poked through the setting for Pleco but didn't see anything. The closest I could get was to have the Reader read the lyrics and show the definition bubble at the same time. This doesn't quite have the same "smooth" effect when trying to memorize song lyrics.
Is it there but I'm missing it? If not, please consider this a request to include a capability like this.
EDIT: one additional capability that would be cool is a Traditional/Simplified switch. I know it's difficult going S->T, but many of the songs are by Taiwanese artist, and hence the default lyrics one easily finds are in Traditional...but I'm learning Simplified and if there was a simple conversion tool, that would be great.
What I found was that there are SOOOOOO many characters I've never seen before used in the songs. Even using the Reader, I recognized hardly any of the characters. That's when I realized it would be fantastic to have both the PinYin and the Characters shown simultaneously. What I'm talking about is something like you see in Groundfinch or Readmersion (both iOS apps...see attached image for example of Groundfinch).
I poked through the setting for Pleco but didn't see anything. The closest I could get was to have the Reader read the lyrics and show the definition bubble at the same time. This doesn't quite have the same "smooth" effect when trying to memorize song lyrics.
Is it there but I'm missing it? If not, please consider this a request to include a capability like this.
EDIT: one additional capability that would be cool is a Traditional/Simplified switch. I know it's difficult going S->T, but many of the songs are by Taiwanese artist, and hence the default lyrics one easily finds are in Traditional...but I'm learning Simplified and if there was a simple conversion tool, that would be great.
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