Feature Requests

Have you ever been using LingQ and come across a word or a sentence and wonder to yourself: how does this sentence or word grammatically work? I think this would be a wonderful new feature for LingQ. Just click on a word or a phrase and hit the explain button and the ai will break everything down for you, allowing you to follow up with questions. I think this will save users time from having to go back and forth from LingQ to ChatGPT.

我刚刚学习完lingq的60节迷你故事，我打开了另外一本书，但是这一句太长了吧，对于初学者，实在是太艰难了，我使用lingq学习日语的时候，就完全没碰到过这样分段的句子，你们的系统识别的分段绝对有问题。 我需要真正的句子模式

It would be nice to be able to gift Premium to another user. Currently either the gifter needs the password of the giftee, or the giftee must be given the full credit card details. Neither solution feels good. I imagine something like this: The gifter pays for x months of Premium for another user. This triggers authentication checks, etc. The giftee gets some number of days to claim this gift. If not claimed, the money is returned. For security, anti-spam and other reasons, this would only be possible with a bidirectional Friend connection of some sort.

Please can I make an app suggestion. I noticed that the mobile web browser and app are different and there is a feature on the mobile web browser that I think doesn’t exist on the app which would really help my use and enjoyment of the app. Please can you add to the app the ability to filter by course type / provider ? I want to use LingQ to study what my language exchange talk friends send me (import) but I also want to be able to use LingQ for discovering my own content - and I would prefer to be able to filter not just by context (which the app already does) but most importantly by media type. I have different preferences for different types of media and it would really help my enjoyment of the app if I could easily filter between text, video, and audio, on the fly - as I enjoy each type at different times - walking, eating, sitting in the evening on the couch - please add this!

Add a button in the playlist tab that shares the playlist as a share in the library for me to more quickly access and choose a lesson from.

There is a recurring issue when using LingQ on different platforms. When reading in browser and later switching to iOS app the reading status will not sync immediately and the user doesn't have the ability to force a sync either. Example: Reading in browser from 5th to 20th page in a lesson Opening the lesson in iOS app will show reading status at 5th page Using the "refresh" option will not update the reading status Previously added LingQs are forgotten and still highlighted as new in the lesson While reading the app will randomly update and sync the reading status on its own This behavior means that a user has to manually find the page where they stopped reading. For me sometimes while I'm looking for the page the app will update, but other times it takes so long that by time it syncs I already found the location. Troubleshooting steps tried: Using the "refresh" button (Doesn't seem to work on iOS. When tapped, the reading status bar will flash green as if syncing the status but then returns to the local state without updating.) Force quitting the app Quitting & reopening the lesson This seems to affect achievements too. Most recently I started reading in browser, then continued on iOS. The reading status was not synced and while I was catching up and re-adding the previously added new LingQs the app notified me of having reached 20.000 words which should not be possible as all words I was adding have already been added in the browser. The achievement popup was shown just as my reading status updated in the app, but I didn't receive a notification in the browser for the achievement. Note: the issue seems to only affect desktop to iOS sync. The reading status in browser is correctly synced each time. Recommended solution: refresh button should force request reading status from the server. In most cases it seems that LingQ stores the correct reading status but won't sync for minutes or even when this option is tapped.

It would be very useful to group courses to create series of ebooks. For example, we could add all the Harry Potter books in a course collection called "Harry Potter". Right now, it can be done with tags, but it's hard to visualize.

For languages like Japanese, that don't use spaces to seperate words, it would be useful if the user could easely split or merge characters directly in the reader app. This could be done by clicking between two characters while holding a modifier key (shift, strg, et. al.). This way the user doesn't has to rely on the ai splitting, which doesn't necessarely create the best results.

Integrating RSS feed reading capabilities into LingQ would provide a centralized location for users to access content from various external sources. This would allow users to subscribe to their preferred blogs and news sites, displaying new articles directly within the LingQ interface. This integration could also facilitate seamless import of these articles into LingQ for language learning purposes, streamlining the process of adding new content for study.

For some languages, the current number of 9 words for creating a phrase Lingq is a real limit. Seeing that you are improving speed now, would it be possible to expand it? For example, a language like German needs often more words because of the structure of the sentence. Creating a Lingq for a longer sentence would help to better understand separated verbs, or verbs structures that are far from each other. In the screenshot below, you can see many cases in one short paragraph and it's often like this. At the end, a user gives up. Thanks.