Currently just finished traveling to my first Mandarin Chinese speaking country after studying on Lingq for Mandarin for 4.5 years.
Stats of before Traveling to Taiwan: Listening: 10,172 hours Words Known: 107,358 words Speaking: 561.77 hours
As a result of studying hard for this long, was able to get by relatively easy and made friends with numerous taiwanese people who were surprised that I spoke mandarin despite being a different ethnicity. Without Lingq, this type of opportunity would of never happened, and I would of not been able to experience the enhanced version of this trip. Although there were very few cases I didn’t understand the other party and would use english slighty, would say that Lingq made me 90%+ capable of surviving in the country if I ever was to live and move to a mandarin speaking country. For learners of Mandarin, lingq is a super weapon. If I ever had to start over again, I would always come back to my first love, Lingq. Thank you Lingq team as always!
Thank you. It was a great experience. The next real challenge is going to Mainland China next year since their English level is lower, which adds on an extra layer of a challenge
4.5 years, over 10,000 hours of listening, and 107k known words, and then actually going to Taiwan and using it in real life, that’s very inspiring.
The fact that you could make friends and get by so comfortably is the ultimate proof that all that input paid off. Stories like this are exactly why people keep grinding. Huge congrats on the trip and all the hard work.
I plan on using what I’ve learned from you in your YouTube video and forum posts to better my studying, thanks for every piece of advice and tip you ever dropped.
The reason you didn’t find him is because his @ is Chytran1 on YT although his Channel name or title is “Kevin - Language Enthusiast.”
You will have to go from Videos > Livestreams in sections to see his first live stream about LingQ and how he learned Mandarin (3 hours long but worth the watch if you’re new or want to go deep on listening)
congrats! i think its very impressive the dedication you have put in. I would personally love to see a video on your channel about how an average day of studying looks for you to see how exactly you use lingq everyday. Not too many people on YouTube that have used lingq to this extent so i think it would be very helpful to see how its best used.
Now that you have made it this far, do you plan on stopping lingq sometime soon or do you have a new goal number that you feel you need to reach to get closer to 100%?
I think a lot of us would find that super valuable.
@Chytran You’ve clearly figured out a very effective way to use LingQ long-term, and there aren’t many people showing the nitty-gritty details.
I went on your profile and noticed you mentioned using arrow keys to cycle through words, and in another video you showed your exact hand position on the keyboard — little things like that are gold for people trying to optimize their workflow.
I’m especially curious: if you had to start completely from scratch again (like I’m doing now with Russian), how would you approach LingQ? Would you stick mostly to mini-stories at the beginning? How do you decide when to LingQ a word versus mark it known? Do you listen first then read, or read while listening?
Right now I’m just doing lots of listening + a little bit of review and hoping it sticks.
Would love to hear your thoughts whenever you have time.
Currently the route is doing a certain amount of listening everyday and watching only content that contains words I probably haven’t heard yet and do it until the end of time. In order words, doing what a native would do but in a smaller amount to provide consistent improvement since there are other languages under my belt that are the next priority and to visit those country origin and repeat the process. The journey doesn’t end here and is probably the beginning to something more
Any specific questions you have, you can private message me. I reply generally quickly.
For Russian, I noticed that the approach had to be slightly different but the quick answer is important all claimed title ơn YouTube “comprehensible Russian” etc and import as much possible. Also use language reactor for listening. The deadliest pair. Lingq and Language Reactor. I stopped learning it for personal reasons not because of joy, but I found that I can’t use the language in real life if I were to travel unless I go to certain countries such as Kazakhstan
Hey! I initially thought that I couldn’t learn new languages and resigned myself to improving my English as it’s the only foreign language that I know. However, after checking your progress, and seeing your stats here on LingQ, I was inspired to give language learning a try. I gave it a hard think and I settled with German. I can’t think of reasons to learn French, Spanish, Mandarin, etc. but German stood out. So, I will hopefully have my English lifetime switched to German, so I can immediately start working on German grammar and try to become LingQ-creating ready as fast as possible.
As a Native English speaker, and one which is learning German at somewhere around a low A2 level, German shares a lot of similarities with English and vocabulary that appear very similar in nature. English is a Germanic language, afterall.
Haus = House
Wasser = Water
Freund = Friend
It should make getting a few hundred words under your belt pretty easy.
