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iPhone Arrives in China, But Where Is Pleco?

For students of the Chinese language, there is one electronic dictionary application that seems to stands in a class of its own, made by a small New York-based software company called Pleco. Certain language learners (myself included) have been known to... ...full story at China Journal

from China Journal on Mon, Nov 02 2009

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