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Just tried it out. Seems like a nice idea and can see how it might be useful.

However, for the Android version in Chinese, it's very difficult to get the translations of the words - it defaults to translating entire lines. Also, when you try and adjust the amount that is being selected, if it hasn't finished reading out the whole line, you get two chunks being read simultaneously.

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Hey, thanks for the feedback. We definitely need to improve the app for Chinese - word tokenization is much harder here so we don't handle word selection well right now. Our app is most polished for languages like Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Russian.

Stay tuned though! We definitely want to make it work just as well for Chinese in the future!

I thought that would be the case. I tried it in French and I understood the app much better.

Though one other thing, it didn't seem that clear how to add words to flashcards. I later figured out that it automatically adds them when you click translate, but might be better to have an option to add them or not? Or at least a little notification saying "flashcard added".

Great feedback. We plan on adding both - a notification, as well as a button to add and remove flashcards after tapping.

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