Pleco 2.0 Add-on Files

Please note that ALL OF THE FILES BELOW ARE UNSUPPORTED - we offer them as a service to our customers, but we take no responsibility for their content or accuracy.

The files below are specifically designed for Pleco 2.0 and won't work with an earlier version; see this page for PlecoDict 1.0 add-on files.

If you've developed a useful dictionary or flashcard list that you'd like to see added to this page, contact us.

 

Dictionaries

We offer several free add-on dictionaries for Pleco 2.0 based on various online dictionary projects.

How to install:

Windows Mobile: Double-click on the downloaded file; it should automatically extract to a folder. Drag the .pdb database file inside of it to your computer's desktop. Then, copy that file to your handheld's memory card; you can use the "Install Add-on" command in the Automated installer to do this, or copy it over using one of the manual installation methods (put the file in the "Pleco" folder that you created on your memory card when you installed Pleco).

Palm OS: Double-click on the downloaded file; it should automatically extract to a folder. Drag the .pdb database file inside of it to your computer's desktop. Then, if you installed Pleco using Palm Desktop / HotSync, simply install this new file like you did Pleco's other data files. If you installed the software directly to a memory card, put your memory card in your card reader again, open up the Palm / Launcher directory on the card, and drag the .pdb file into there.

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Flashcard Lists

We also offer a couple of sets of premade flashcard lists.

How to install:

Windows Mobile: Double-click on the downloaded file; it should automatically extract to a folder. Drag the text file inside of it to your computer's desktop. Then, copy that file to your handheld's memory card; you can use the "Install Add-on" command in the Automated installer to do this, or copy it over using one of the manual installation methods (put the file in the "Pleco" folder that you created on your memory card when you installed Pleco).

Palm OS: Double-click on the downloaded file; it should automatically extract to a folder. Drag the .pdb database file inside of it to your computer's desktop. Then, if you installed Pleco using Palm Desktop / HotSync, simply install this new file like you did Pleco's other data files. If you installed the software directly to a memory card, put your memory card in your card reader again, open up the Palm / Launcher directory on the card, and drag the .pdb file into there.

How to import:

After you've copied the flashcard list to your handheld, to get the new cards to actually show up in Pleco you need to import them into your flashcard database.

Windows Mobile: Open up the flashcard Import screen (see the instruction manual for details on that), click on the "Choose File" button at the top of the screen, and select the flashcard file from the list of available files. Make sure the text encoding is configured to "UTF-8", then tap Import to begin the import. Once the import finishes, go into Manage Flashcards or Manage Categories and the new cards/categories should now be available.

Palm OS: Open up the flashcard Import screen (see the instruction manual for details on that) and choose "PalmDoc (Int)" if you installed the flashcard database to internal memory (i.e., you used Palm Desktop and put the file in "Handheld") or "PalmDoc (Card)" if you installed it to your flash memory card. The flashcard file should now appear in the file list - select it, make sure that the text encoding is configured to "UTF-8", then tap Import to begin the import. Once the import finishes, go into Manage Flashcards or Manage Categories and the new cards/categories should now be available.

Download Links:

See the "Flashcard Exchange" area in our discussion forums for many other flashcard lists, including subject-specific vocabulary and vocabulary from other textbook series. Some other Pleco-friendly sources for flashcard lists are:

• HSK Flashcards - site with lists for the Practical Chinese Reader and New Practical Chinese Reader series, along with an HSK flashcard list which uses its own embedded definitions (instead of linking to dictionary entries like our version does).
• Popup Chinese - subscription site with audio lessons / transcripts and Pleco-format vocabulary list export.
• ZDT - free / open-source desktop software with lots of available flashcard lists and the ability to export those lists in Pleco format.
• ChinesePod - supports Pleco (1.0 and 2.0) format flashcard list exports.
• Shengci - site with about 20,000 flashcards that can be exported by category in Pleco format.

Note that most of the lists on these sites and the Flashcard Exchange forum are only provided in text format; this is no problem for Windows Mobile (just copy the files to your handheld like you would with the text files in the above instructions), but with Palm OS you may need to convert them to PalmDoc format before you can install them on your handheld. The Popup Chinese lists are in XML format, so they won't work on Palm unless you copy them directly to your flash memory card, but again will work fine on Windows Mobile if you just install them like any other add-on.

 

Document Reader Files

We haven't assembled our own collection of files for the document reader yet, but Pan-Logic Software hosts a number of Pleco-friendly Chinese texts, along with a set of New Practical Chinese Reader flashcard lists.

 

Woman Audio

Along with the male-speaker audio files included in the official Pleco 2.0 release, we also recorded another set of files with a female speaker. Unfortunately, the recordings didn't turn out as well as we would have hoped and the files tend to have a lot of static / background noise (not to mention a significant number of mistakes / truncated syllables); we're trying to clean them up enough so that they can be part of the official release, but for now we're making them available here as an unsupported add-on instead.

These files are only usable if you've purchased the male audio files for Pleco 2.0 - otherwise they'll remain locked / in demo mode.

How to install:

Windows Mobile: Double-click on the downloaded file; it should automatically extract to a folder. Drag the .pdb database files inside of it to your computer's desktop. Then, simply copy each of those files to your handheld's memory card; you can use the "Install Add-on" command in the Automated installer to do this, or copy them over using one of the manual installation methods (put the files in the "Pleco" folder that you created on your memory card when you installed Pleco).

Palm OS: Double-click on the downloaded file; it should automatically extract to a folder. Drag the .pdb database files inside of it to your computer's desktop. Then, if you installed Pleco using Palm Desktop / HotSync, simply install these database files like you did Pleco's other data files. If you installed the software directly to a memory card, put your memory card in your card reader again, open up the Palm / Launcher directory on the card, and drag the .pdb files into there.

Download Links:

Pleco 2.0 Woman Audio Files, Beta 7: pd2b7-womanaudio.zip (144 MB)

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