Feature Requests

To aid in sentence mining it would be nice to be able to select a word and be offered a short list of that words usage in a variety of sentences. This would mimic a feature found in Language Reactor that I find useful.

I’ve been using LingQ and really enjoy the platform, but I wanted to suggest a feature that would improve the listening experience. Right now, the audio can only be played from the beginning or rewound in increments, but there’s no way to start playback from a specific word in the text. It would be incredibly useful if clicking on a word in a lesson would make the audio start from that point. This would help a lot with comprehension and repetition, especially when trying to focus on tricky sentences or unknown words. I know LingQ already has sentence mode and text-to-speech for individual words, but having the ability to start playback from any word in the full audio would make learning even smoother. I’d love to see this feature added in a future update! Thanks for all the hard work on LingQ it's a great tool, and I appreciate the effort that goes into improving it!

This feature request proposes a new way to review LingQs using spaced repetition within the context of their original lessons. The system would recommend a daily set of lessons for review, chosen because they contain LingQs due for revision. Ideally, users could configure: The number of lessons to review every day The maximum lesson length (to avoid overly long content like full book chapters) Courses to avoid This will improve vocabulary retention by allowing users to review words and phrases in context. It would also make studying more efficient by automating lesson selection based on spaced repetition principles. The ability to limit lesson length ensures the reviews remain manageable and focused.

Uses your language level to reply with the expected complexity - Corrects your spelling/grammar succinctly - Pick your own conversation topic, select from some prechosen, or just self-directed journaling - Uses words that you have lingqs of - Suggests using words or phrases that youve lingqed that you could have used but didn’t - Could use community created prompts/stories/personalities Ive been using chatGPT for this style of writing practice, this proposal would let it count towards my daily goals with some added benefits of using my LingQs. Here’s the prompt Ive been using that works well for me: You are a language teacher that gives feedback and corrects mistakes for my writing. I will write in swedish as best as i can, including any words that i dont know the swedish word for in quotes, for example: jag ”know” det. Your response should correct any mistakes in spelling and grammar, and make a list giving me the swedish translation for any words in quotes that i didnt know. Be succinct, so that i can quickly read the feedback and continue writing.

When we click in a word what we dont know in the text, it shows a little number with a coin, thats how frequent this word is used in the language. Would be nice to be able to filter the flashcards based on this parameter

Im not sure what how to refer to this screen but its when listening and reading to a playlist item. When viewing a text with audio on mobile, the highlighted current spoken/shown text automatically stays in the middle of the screen to make it easier to follow along without having to scroll the page up. Or better yet, include a way to control where the text will be fixed on the screen so one could choose it higher or lower when its being used. Currently the text is fixed to the bottom of the screen and moves up when the next sentence is spoken, this makes it harder for follow and see whats coming next, especially when there is a bit of delay when automatically moving to the next paragraph

When importing eBooks, allow users to manually define chapter start and end points. Alternatively, implement an AI-powered chapter detection feature to automatically identify chapter breaks within the eBook file. This will allow LingQ to create lessons based on chapters instead of arbitrary word counts, making it easier for users to track their progress and complete reading goals on a per-chapter basis.

Right now the youtube video is either way too small, or covers the text. Either choice really limits the use of the video. The video should be resizable in some way. Maybe a split screen choice.

LingQ could create an Http API with the following interfaces: - Secure API token for login - Get user’s lingqs dictionary - Modify lingq known value number - Create new lingq (and retrieve possible definitions) - Get days coins/goal With this, users can use software that utilizes the http API to learn in new environments, for example: - games/apps that use Lingqs - Kindle/ereader adoption - Chrome/browser extensions that show webpages in your language and highlights words according to lingqs/allows LingQing from any webpage - adoption into Anki-based software While it might be easy to fear other Duolingo-like apps popping up after making a public API like this, you would still have control over the majority of the method used (per-word learning), and users would probably still tend to use the LingQ app and website for their main learning as their coins earned from these other sources would contribute to their goals.