Comments on: LingQ Exited Beta

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:30:47 +0000

Rmss,
I usually record single words, and sometimes phrases, but rarely complete sentences.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:29:48 +0000

Sure, Steve. Let me contact you directly. Thanks.

By: Rmss

Rmss — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:57:09 +0000

Hm, for what I’ve seen so far I think it’s an impressive system. But I’m still a bit overwhelmed by it, as I don’t exactly know how to use it’s vocabulary section.

By the way; are you only adding loose words to your flashcard system or sentences too?

By: Steve Kaufmann

Steve Kaufmann — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:21:08 +0000

Edwin,

I would be happy to discuss our system with you over Skype if you have the time.

Our Help is certainly not as good as it should be.

With regard to the other sections of LingQ that you find less useful, I must say that our Write section and the online discussions with native speakers are both very popular with many of our learners.

The vocabulary section can be effective but might require some explanation. I certainly use a variety of its functions for my Russian studies.

In any case, let me know when you would have time for a discussion about LingQ and language learning in general. I would like to record this discussion and we could both make the recording available at our respective blog sites, if you agree.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:06:34 +0000

14578 words are the number of different words I have encountered so far. These words include names, places, and foreign words. Then each conjugated form of a verb is counted separately, as well as singular and plural forms of a noun. Besides, I have not learnt all my encountered words. They are just marked as ‘known’.

I think I know about 3000 French words so far, which is far from being fluent in reading.

By: Milan

Milan — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:57:49 +0000

Edwin, does that mean you now have enough vocab to speak French fluently? 14578 known words is a mighty lot of words. Didn’t Steve mention you only need to know 10-12K to be advanced and fluent?

By: Edwin

Edwin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:50:26 +0000

As of today, my total words of reading is 196322, and I have 14578 known words and 974 LingQs created.

Contents for English should be good, as they have been adding since version 1. Contents for French and other languages are still weak.

By: asad

asad — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:00:00 +0000

How many total words of reading have you done with the lingQ system for French? My total words of reading was “100,000″ for English language in the last month. 5,000 known words. And 100 lingqs were created.

I agree with your impressions regarding the system. It was an enjoyable experience to read something at lingq. Flashcard is a feature I think is a nuisance and ineffective. It does not test your knowledge of vocabulary is an effective way. It is just there as a filler.