As great as the English dictionaries are, the most useful dictionary in the professional bundle is the Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian (现代汉语规范词典, GF in Pleco). This dictionary is entirely in Chinese, defining Chinese words in Chinese. Although the definitions can be hard to grok at times, the Chinese explanations often provide much more clarity, and sometimes feels like having a Chinese teacher by your side. When Chinese terms are defined in English, the definitions suffer because foreign words always bring other connotations and associations. I have four kinds of definitions I love coming across in the GF dictionary.
This add-on, included with the Professional bundle, is a little hard-to-find but well-worth the effort. Be sure to download the full, extended version. I, too, was concerned about downloading a 1.6 GB add-on on top of the 200+ MB base engine. Let me assure you that the difference in pronunciation quality is night and day, just remember to make Qiang your default audio engine.
The pleco.com website does a great job of documenting the Pleco app. If you have a specific question, you can always send an e-mail. Pleco founder Michael Love does a great job of getting back to you with a spot-on answer.
I use Skritter just to practice single characters. At first I pumped 1000s of words into Skritter, but that just became too time consuming. Now I follow imron's method and mass add, drill, then delete words in pleco flashcards. This combination of separating out handing writing practice from actually remember words has been much more efficient for me. I can write words when I need to, but I don't need to invest ridiculous amounts of time actually writing those words out.
Pleco is an amazing tool for learning Chinese. Of course, our dictionary is distributed by Pleco, but there are so many more great features that make it a truly indispensable tool. We recommend the Pro bundle, which includes flash cards, outstanding handwriting recognition, text to speech and native recorded audio, a document reader, stroke order animations and more. There are also dozens of dictionaries available: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Chinese to Chinese, Chinese to French or German, specialized dictionaries of classical Chinese, Cantonese, medical Chinese, etc. There are also graded readers, and even a digital version of Endymion Wilkinson's Chinese History: A New Manual. Truly a one-stop shop for your Chinese learning needs! Learn more
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One thing to consider is the dictionaries available. Especially in the Chinese-Chinese department as you advance. For the price of wenlin, you could load up on quite a few more dictionaries with the pleco solution.
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I want to buy the best pleco combo right up front, as I am an older person, studying to make up for lost time. I hope you guys can comment. I know there have been other threads on this but my computer does not load all of the graphics and I cannot find the search window!
3. New "Complete" Bundle
Thanks to an amendment to another one of our dictionary licenses, we're now able to offer every single 2.0 dictionary together in a single bundle, something that a restriction in that license prevented us from doing before now. This new "Complete" bundle costs $199.95 and includes all 8 of our current dictionaries, and it's available along with the other bundles in our online store. It does not automatically entitle you to any new dictionaries we might release in the future, however.
If you've recently purchased a brand new copy of Pleco 2.0 with another bundle and wish you'd bought this one instead, send us a note and we'll be happy to try to work something out to let you switch. We've also just lowered the price of the Basic bundle from $70 to $60, and added the NWP dictionary to the Linguist bundle, so if you've purchased either of those bundles recently and would like a credit for the price difference / additional dictionary, let us know; we've already done this automatically for all Basic / Linguist orders placed in June.
A few months ago I bought the Pleco Professional bundle. And a few days ago I recieved the e-mail about the update and new complete bundle (and the option to change your mind if you rather bought the new bundle). There are some changes in the new version: one of them being a larger character writing square.
For purchases, I would suggest buying the basic bundle to start with. This gives you a dictionary suitable for beginners and intermediate levels but at any time you can add on any other dictionaries you may need.
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