title: iOS - plist file, nsuserdefaults or text data file
body: <p>I am working on a mobile app which needs a lot of data. Simply put, the data will be for multiple languages and consist of all the words possible for that language. The app would start with only the English language and a lot of it's words. Then the user can choose to download more languages and their data.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to figure out the best way to read/save/update this data. Should I create a plist file with English data to start with and just keep adding more data as user downloads new languages? Or should I save all the data in nsuserdefaults? Or, should I just include a text file with all the data and parse it on the fly?</p>
  
  <p>Suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>ps: i understand that as this is a mobile app, file space and parsing time have to be considered</p>