LingQ Review

Your channel has help me a lot of to improve and enhance my English skills, thanks. I really appreciate it

Very useful, thanks man!

Malĝis mia amiko! I am having trouble with LingQ. I use it very often to improve my listening, and I really like the stories. But I set myself a challenge to learn French after 25 years of ignoring that language after learning it semi-OK to survive on the streets of Brussels. What I'm having a hard time with is knowing what to do in the feed. I don't know where these feed items come from, or how I choose one vs the other. What's more, according to Lee, much of what shows up in the Esperanto feed is poor quality; I suspect other languages aren't as bad in that regard, but I don't want to be listening to poor quality material. I feel like I'm missing a vital piece of "how to use LingQ" information. In other words, as long as I use the 60 stories I'm good, but beyond that, I don't get it. Thank you sir.

I've found LIngq useful for learning Russian, but the best stories I found for starting were supplied by an independent tutor, Evgeny. They were simple enough, but also interesting to keep me engaged. Now I import much of my own content, even selections from War and Peace.

Uh, oh. I don't think I could pay 9 dollars for an app when I earn 100 dollars a month in my country.

but it's a pity that we can't open the lingQ website or use the app as normal in China

Thank you for this, I’ll check it out. I’ve found Talk to Me in Korean and LingoDeer to be the most helpful so far in learning Korean.

Please review HelloTalk app.

Not gonna lie, I gasped at the Radio Ambulante feature

how is the import/export flashcard working? can I import a list of word and use in flashcard?

If you dont pay for a subscription you cant click on some of the blue words. Can you explain why that is

Your review was very convincing, but now I am not so sure. Not only (as you remarked) the free version sucks. Unless you know right from the beginning which settings to change, the 20 LingQs are gone and the testing is over before it even began. But what put me off even more is the many mistakes in their German marketing mails. How can they teach me a language if they make so many mistakes themselves?

At first I used it passively, but now I am obsessed with it. It and the Spanish With Paul courses are where I've made my greatest advances.

Try forge. You will love I. It's also free

Something I found from Luca Whathisname is Learning Languages with Netflix. I don't currently use Netflix because of the Cuties controversy, but at some time in the future I will use it again, with LLWN. It is great for using movies to learn languages. Better than DVDs+VLC player, which is largely how I learned Spanish.

Right on. Thanks for the review.

Just paid for a month of LingQ and, admittedly, regret my decision. Korean grammar is such that you can't really understand the language just by looking at non-contextualized translations of words. It may be more useful for Chinese, which I'm much more proficient at; yet another tool for Chinese while I continue my quest to find decent Korean learning material!

beginners can use linq right?

I implore everyone to boycott this software. The owners have attacked and shut down Learning With Texts and Foreign Language Text Reader, two free open source software platforms used by people who don't want to fork out 120 a year to put up with LingQ and it's terrible design, poorly written code and broken ass website.

I think LingQ is a little difficult to use to start a language from scratch if it is not related to any languages you already know. If you do know similar languages it can work really well though. I think if you are in the situation of trying to learn a language from scratch in LingQ, focus on very easy texts in the beginning, like the 60 mini-stories they offer. Otherwise I agree that you could use a simpler platform, like Rosetta Stone or maybe Duolingo, to build basic vocabulary first.

I like Itzy " not shy".
You piece of shit

Can't but help stare at your cute face. I paid for subscription.. gotta pay to play to learn

Omg I always thought it was pronounced Ling Q not link lol

If I want to learn German and my native language is Spanish but I also know English, do you believe I should use LingQ to learn German in Spanish or English?

Looks cool, but honestly the trial version shouldn’t suck, if it does, they should work on that. If I can try something for free and it sucks, I am obviously not coming back to it.

Very good analysis, that’s it: for me Duolingo (and Busuu) complement LingQ.

I find it very expensive, since the users are providing most of the content (correct me if I'm wrong). I've tried the demo version, and found it to be too VERY slow and unresponsive, not to mention the "you are out of lings for today" limitation. The UX needs some serious rethinking, too many stuff on the screen. If you are a reasonable programmer, you can create a similar app in 1 week. IMO.

I can't work out how to get the 35% discount, is there a code?

Hi! I am looking for a companion learner for my children during this Covid mess. Would you do a comparison of Lingq and Babbel? Which one would you recommend?

I use rosetta stone with lingq

It took me a while to figure out how to use LingQ efficiently while learning language. It is a really good app in my opinion, especially if you decide to learn more than one language. Very easy to visually compare by the ratio of blue/yellow/white words how far you managed to get.
My main issues are that the translations are picked by users and sometimes they are really bad. Sometimes they are surprisingly good. And not enough high quality introductory beginner content, especially in less popular languages.
Also a pet peeve of mine is that all your data are on third party server and you subscribe monthly/yearly, so should LingQ stop working, all that effort you put into saving words will be lost. It might not be very likely, but I think it is worth pointing out.


Anyway, I usually read and listen to stuff outside of LingQ, but then I import what I read to LingQ and just mark words I know and especially those I do not know. And then after some time I get back to that material and see how much more I know now and usually I see a lot of yellow words turn white. And it is strangely rewarding to see all the stuff I actually learned after a year.

Thanks, this was a pretty good review. I like how you showed how the system works, though you concentrated on vocabulary issues. What about grammar or conjugation? Does LingQ expect that you pick this up from seeing the words in context? Also, much of language isn't translated literally word for word. How would this handle expressions or compound verbs? German in particular is famous for a verbs meaning changed by a distant preposition. So I am intrigued enough to try the app, but can't believe it has worked out all these problems.

Dawid Podsiadło is that you?

Finally a review from someone that doesn't feel like they did it for a friend or because they were getting paid. Instead, this felt like a genuine, and honest review from someone that has used it, and walked us through visually what they either liked or didn't like. Thank you so much. I was really on the fence about adding this as a language learning tool for Japanese since I am self-teaching. Thank you so much for such a helpful and honest review. BIG thumbs up from me.

Thank you! How is LingQ any better than the Google Translate Extension for Chrome? I love finding interesting articles online and simply using the extension to highlight, and automatically get the translation and pronunciation of, any unfamiliar word or phrase.

I've been learning Spanish and Japanese for a couple years now and consider myself advanced beginner to low intermediate on both of them. After watching Steve's videos I've been considering trying LingQ and this review settled it for me. Gonna buy a month subscription to try it out and commit myself to getting my money's worth :)

the free version sucks.. i watched this to figure out if its worth buying the subscription

That is the single best website out there. It has been of paramount help when it comes to learning words, which I believe is the most essential part of the language acquisition. My advice is that you spend 40 days on lingq and you will soon become addicted to it. Seriously guys I’ve learned over 10.000 headwords in the course of 12 months on this website . It really works and I highly recommend it to anyone achieved a B1 or B1+

I love LingQ

When importing from a website, the text just shows up as a big block of text with no paragraphs. Do you know of a fix or workaround to that?

I agree Duolingo and Lingq complement each other. Begin with Duolingo and then graduate to lingq.

Thank you for the review! How did you get Radio Ambulante in the LingQ App?

LinQ is very good! Some of the beginner stuff gets boring quite quickly, but it's well worth the money!

I found this review very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you mate, I am learning GErman and I used couple of months Mosalingua and since 1 month Lingoda. But Lingoda seems too advanced for my level, also the price is not cheap respect LongQ. What do you think about Lingoda?