Sorry for not rating the App itself but after this first impression I have lost trust and haven’t even tried it.- Update:I now also received a response from the developer, saying that I don’t understand “how it works” and did not read the terms properly.I will leave it up to the reader to judge if users are supposed to read all terms and fine print for every downloaded app or if it is the developers job to ensure transparency (as 99% of developers already do) around when a user is charged or not. These practices should be stopped as everyone is entitled to transparency and understanding when he/she is subscribing to a service. If you’re not careful, you will be subscribed without any additional warnings. The App tricks you into a subscription just for downloading the App. I don’t know if this is the new App Store System or the idea of the Developers. From English to Chinese this doesn’t seem to be much of a problem. The best thing I can suggest is that you find someone who speaks both Chinese and English and ask them to speak Chinese into the app and you will see that the English translation is wrong 99% of the time. You developed the app right? So this is something you should already know. Speak perfect Mandarin ten times and all ten times it gets it wrong!To the developer, you sent me an email asking me to send you samples of how your app doesn’t work but it’s not possible to send a sample of a voice recording since your app doesn’t let you record. VERY VERY much off in the Chinese to English area, the Chinese translation is not even remotely close to the English. When speaking Chinese the English translation is FREQUENTLY NOT accurate and keeps giving different translations in English that are not relevant. I wanted to give this app not 5 but 10 stars, but it fails in the English Chinese Department. Again, please hire linguists and learn conversational pieces to the languages (includes slang and you must hire linguists that were born and raised with the 2 languages you are trying to translate between to get it right). Oh and if anyone says this app works well, it is because they are not fluent and don’t know any better. Good luck developers (hire some more linguists). If it was free then I’d consider it because it is just as bad as the free ones. I will have to stick to learning the language better on a different app I use and keep using the free translations apps (I am not going to pay $5 a month on this app if it doesn’t work well). I hope they make major improvements or make it free. I wanted to test out the app by speaking Spanish to see if the app would translate right into English and vise versa and I was shocked by if 2 of the most spoken languages in the world (aside from Chinese) aren’t translated well then I can’t trust it to translate between my English and German well, especially if it is a more complex language. My German is also very limited so that doesn’t help either. I downloaded it so that it could translate back and forth between English and German because my boyfriend is German and his parents and some of his friends don’t speak English. I am bilingual (English and Spanish).so you are probably wondering why I downloaded the app.
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