NAVER Dictionary for Android

I got this app because I wanted to try out Accentia. The app has a lot of features that I find helpful. The dictionary is nice, the daily conversation is cool, and I like Accentia a lot, but it also has a lot of problems. I enjoy using Accentia’s talk feature, but the app often cuts me off while I’m speaking and makes me record things over and over. You can’t hesitate for even a second, or else it will cut you off or force you to re-record the sentence over and over. I like Accentia because it allows me to listen to native speakers and practice my speaking and reading, but these issues hinder my ability to do that. NAVER, please fix some of the recording features in Accentia.

As someone who speaks several languages, has worked on machine translation, and also used to live in Korea, I think this app is disappointing. The most obnoxious issue I’ve had is that I’m rarely still logged in and the app clearly has loading times that are egregiously slow for a mobile app. Compare this to something like Pleco for mandarin and it’s even more obvious. There should be an option to disable some features that require internet connection. Also, the UI is designed in a way that I can’t easily tell which direction (english to korean or korean to english) I’m even trying to translate in. The times it has worked in the ideal way, I did get pretty good results in terms of definitions and examples. Although, I think the examples need curating because they often aren’t very diverse. The desktop site at least has far better usability in my opinion

항상 아이패드 스플릿 뷰로 어학공부 했는데 업데이트 하면서 스플릿 뷰 기능이 사라졌습니다 ㅜㅜ 너무 불편해졌어요 ㅜㅜ

WORST DICTIONARY EVER

계속 홈 화면에 뜨면서 창을 닫지도 못하게 만들어서 진짜 짜증나네요. 아니 어떻게 창을 닫지도 못하게 홈화면에 광고를 뛰우나요? 지웁니다. 다신 네이버 안 써요