LingQ | Learn 42 Languages Reviews

Great concept

I8veggies

I like the idea of using this app. But after reading only one or two articles I’ve run out of LinQs and every time I want to look at a word it wants me to upgrade to premium. Even though I’ve reviewed some prior LinQs and lowered the number I have listed I still cannot add more words. I don’t feel that I have explored the app enough to justify paying for it, but feel that I also can’t use it now without doing so. Too bad, I was looking forward to this one.

Love the new design!!! ???????

Mynewph0ne

Hi I just want to say that this app is amazing and that the new design of the app is awesome in all ways really. Now everything looks better than before, I mean before was good but now with the new design of the app is more organized and easier to use it. It’s totally incredible. ???

Love lingQ

CrafteeCat

This is a great app. I uploaded a Russian ebook I have to it and am happily working through the book with LingQ's dictionaries. I am very, very happy with it. I'm certainly learning just what I want to learn.

LingQ: Great Reading Platform, Forums distract

Reviewer7531

The system, with its highlighted words, is great. 5 stars. The feed needs fixed, it's just a bunch of random articles. I can't find my own uploaded content half the time, even under Imports, without searching specifically by name. 4 stars. The forums are toxic - there's a 85% male ratio on there, I'd estimate. Questioners are a mix of internationals, and "bros" who use their words-learned as a way to measure themselves. I thought the forums had a bit of toxicity to them, then I got straight up attacked by someone I had never talked to. Another time, spam was posted in a forum, and I called the person out on it, and a group swarm came after me. They also accused me of "group think" while they swarmed, without ideas/original thoughts backing up their opinions, just insults. The spam they posted had a gender-dynamic to it; trying to convert men (and men only). I don't know if Steve's looked at the user data, or even cares, but I'd bet he's pushing away women users from his site. I'm someone comfortable swinging it with the guys, and dang, do I not want to be on those forums. Within 7 days of starting my membership, I was being bullied [and by someone who thought I was a man, since he called me a "little boy."] The fact that very few women ever speak on the forums is an extra sign that LingQ has cultivated a bad chat culture that is (likely) driving away female potential users.

Growth

EnglandJonny

I'm growing in listening and reading.... That's huge

A few bugs keep it from getting a perfect review

cessnadude

This a versatile and quite useful app, but some bugs that came up right away are annoying. The “fill in the blanks” for word review flash cards don’t have a third tone option, and even on fifth tone pinyin words they are marked as wrong even when spelled correctly! (“de” was marked as wrong, even though the “correct answer” was also “de”). Even with those few annoyances, it is still a very useful learning tool.

Great idea, too confusing to use

Dan Bough

The concept is great. Import articles or go through some curated lessons, highlight words you don’t know to get the translation and study them until you learn them. Unfortunately I felt like all of the content was random. The translations of the Japanese words were wrong a lot of the time (for the context) and the flash cards etc reflected the wrong translations which felt weird to me. Also, the advertisements (ie Steve’s videos) kept mentioning sentence mode which I have no idea how to use (or if it’s even a real thing). Overall the app felt clunky. Maybe Japanese is too hard to fit into a platform like this and/or maybe the app is new and they’re still figuring things out but it’s def not for me.

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