Hey Mike,
Absolutely fantastic application. Really impressed with it all, and cant wait to test out the Flashcard apps. I DL'd the full complete version and very happy to see Pleco offering a student discount. I'll definitely be promoting this app through various academic centres, including British Inter-University China Centre (Oxford, Bristol, Manchester); BRIDGE (Bristol East Asian Studies PG Network); White Rose East Asian Centre; CPN (China Postgrad Network). This should help get the word around to the vast majority of those of us involved in long term study of Chinese and China in UK Universities, and hopefully win some lifelong Pleco users for you. So, if you've got any specific messages on Pleco, future devts and/or comments about the iphone app to pass directly to hundreds of professional and advanced Chinese learners (many at the beginning of their career in chinese studies), please get in touch.
I've been waiting for something like this to come along for such a long time. Really makes learning and maintaining Chinese so much easier. Thanks for all the hard work.
Just a couple of suggestions:
1. a dedicated chengyu dictionary (I know chengyu are included in one dict, but a dedicated dictionary would be great).
2. HSK vocab flashcards/dictionary (i know its covered in existing dicts, but studying for the HSK and learning Chinese ain't the same thing. An HSK vocab resource is essential)
3. academic dictionaries such as social science, economics etc/also dicts on place names/names
And finally:
Any chance that you'll be adding japanese functionality to PLECO???
And can you add me to a list for email updates on Pleco releases?? Thanks.
Mike Gow
PhD Candidate
British Inter-University China Centre
University of Bristol
Visiting Researcher - Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Suzhou