Feature Requests

This feature would add a small, optional “Grammar” button next to LingQs or highlighted phrases. Tap it, and boom: a quick, plain-language explanation of the grammar behind that sentence, powered by a lightweight AI model (like OpenAI’s o3-mini). Still confused? Ask a follow-up question. “Why is this subjunctive?” “Could I use a different tense here?” The AI responds in real time, keeping you immersed and informed. Why This Matters • Keeps learners in the flow. No more bouncing between LingQ and grammar sites. Get the answers where you are, when you need them. • Deepens understanding. Grammar explanations turn passive reading into active learning. You’re not just guessing—you get it. • Feels like magic. Tap a sentence, ask why it works the way it does, and get an answer. It’s like having a personal tutor sitting in your pocket. Why Now? The tech is already here. Small AI models can handle this beautifully without slowing things down or breaking the bank. All LingQ needs is to build the bridge. This feature would instantly level up LingQ’s value—not just as a reading tool, but as a full-on language learning companion

It would save a lot of time to be able to upload a whole Course/Book at once. Select to upload all of the text files, select to upload all of the audio files: same-named text and audio are linked together and the filenames auto-populate to the name of the lesson.

YouTube auto-generated captions, at least in Danish, are not formatted into nice paragraphs in LingQ so this request is to somehow clean this up. These auto-generated captions have line breaks based on (I guess) character count to keep the lines about the same size. This makes for inconvenient and short paragraphs in LingQ, and the audio timestamps are often set to be too long... and I think can be overlapping. These auto-generated captions are pretty accurate and could be a huge asset in learning but because of the paragraph breaks they are not very enjoyable to use in LingQ. If it isn't possible to detect a more appropriate sentence start/end for the paragraphs, another idea would be to combine 2 lines into 1 paragraph. Perhaps the current overlapping audio timescales could help to sort out which paragraphs to combine. It seems that the start times are fairly accurate so they may be a more reliable indicator of true position and might be used for the previous sentence ending as well. Capitalization and translations might also help sort out where to break things. The highest priority, I think, should be in trying to correct the line breaks/sentences as it's easier to adjust the audio start/stop using the "edit lesson" screen than to cut/paste and edit the text.

There are incorrect pinyin in many lessons and courses. Pinyin is an important part of learning Chinese. Please fix this issue.

Suggested by StewartLikesLingQ on this post: https://www.lingq.com/en/community/forum/open-forum/language-reactor-new-valuable?post_id=329313 "It would be even better if LingQ had it's own plugin like language reactor allowing us to LingQ/Mark Known Words on Youtube/Netflix subtitles without needing to import them into LingQ which would save a lot of time. For now I have to use LingQ side by side and it's a hassle or else I just have to read through the subs on LingQ first and then watch the video with Language Reactor after or vice versa."

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.

If I already know "pen", it would be nice if it didn't show "pens" as a new word Especially frustrating in korean since the same word shows up so many times because of different conjugations

I like using the speech recognition to practice my pronunciation -- probably my favorite feature of LingQ. Often I'm so bad that it will try to recognize my speech in english (native lang) rather then the Danish I'm trying to practice. In fact, and maybe I'm wrong, but sometimes when I am repetitively trying to get something right it feels like it is factoring in my past attempts and doing more and locking more and more to the english. Is there a way to lock it to the current language, or strongly weight it to that?

Will allow for more customised find and replace functionality with an editable lesson.

A feature that deletes any stage directions. With Netflix I think these are all within square brackets [applause] - therefore a simple regular expression to find and replace.