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Anybody doing LingQ?
What you think about it? I signed up for the free trial, but haven't tried anything yet.
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c_redman -
Their Chinese capabilities are very crude at this point. I saw in one of their newsletters that
the Chinese module wasn't intended to be used, but they accidentally made it accessible and then
decided to leave it as a beta test. For a beta test, I can't find any status page nor a
bug/suggestion form. I don't know much, other than just trying to test the limits of it.
The application doesn't do any word segmenting. So any text you work with will need to be already
broken into words, so that its vocabulary tools will work the same as it does for other languages.
Of course, Chinese word identification is a challenge for any software application, so I'm not too
surprised it's not implemented. If you do have a text that has spaces between the words, it makes
the experience somewhat artificial, as real Chinese is just a long string of unbroken characters.
They have an optimistic approach to tagging unknown words: Anything you haven't flagged as unknown
when you sign off on the item is assumed to be known. This is a good approach if you are at an
advanced level and have a low percentage of unknowns. But as a lower level learner, I would tend
toward adding half the words (literally) in the text to my flashcards, in my brick wall approach
to learning vocabulary. It's tedious enough to do this that I only played around a little with the
system before giving up. I have other programs that can generate vocabulary lists from a text.
Unfortunately there is no easy way to import it into their database. Oh, and there are only fields
for the definition and an example phrase, no pinyin.
I do like their idea of maintaining study material in personal collections, and tracking study
time for listening and reading. I have all my web texts saved into folders, and I rely on memory
to know what I have already seen. However, I have been studying long enough that I've gotten used
to my own favorite flashcard software and dictionaries, so I will stick with that.
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