English-Russian Dictionary Free Reviews
4/5 rating based on 5 reviews. Read all reviews for English-Russian Dictionary Free for iPhone.
English-Russian Dictionary Free is free iOS app published by Nikolay Vorobiev
Confusion of enormous proportions
abereut
Actually, one star is overstatement. In order to deserve at least ONE star these developers have to mention the true size – a 459 MB download required for the app to start working. Yep, there is no typo – 459 MB !!! Tried several times while connected to the WiFi on iPhone5 with no luck… 2 Hrs later, the moronic database was downloaded. On principals, supporting developers I paid for this "free" app – just hoping they improve the whole installation routine for otherwise harmless app. Finally: When customer pays for it, should this app be still named "English–Russian Dictionary Free"?
Runs hot and cold
WestofLeft
This dictionary has great phrase tracking. All you need is the first noun, adjective, adverb or verb in a phrase to look it up. And it seems fairly adept with more modern language. Indeed, a lot of the words and phrases, I mean a lot, are technical-use only. Not a negative. However, some execution, as opposed to content, is odd. For instance, it divides results in ways not clear to the casual user. There are "clumps" of results divided in nonstandard ways. It took me a long time to sort out that the first heading, because all headings are abbreviated, was Общенно, or "general" in Russian. I think. Why on earth a does a heading need to be abbreviated? There is simply no good reason. In printed dictionaries they are shortened to save space, but these headings occupy entire lines in any case. So why? The answer is they shouldn't be. As for the other abbreviated headings, I still haven't figured those out. Content: the usual text under the "General" heading is a riot of undifferentiated words, sometimes with oblique explanations. But those are in Russian, so how can the English-speaking user derive those? Occasionally I can use what I know of the language to sort them, but usually the clumps, which amount to 20-50 words and phrases, are unexplained gobbledygook which is not helpful. It seems this dictionary was copied, uncritically, from a print work that wasn't really suited to this format. And probably done by machine without editing. It was probably cheap.