At the end of a lesson completed in the browser version, I was presented with a list of words that the system had somehow decided I knew. I did not know any of them, and would want to add them to my LingQs, but there is no option to do this.
In the Android app there is an option to prevent assumed known words being treated as such when they are in fact unknown. I think they can also be added as LingQs.
Reliable management of LingQs should be a core capability of LingQ - I find technical issues like this really disrupt the flow of my learning
Words you don’t add definitions for (leaving blue) are automatically considered as known at the end of the lesson. If you later on add a definition for the respective word, moving its state from known to 1~4, your known words count will be decreased by one. You can change the state of a word in the vocabulary list, too. However, I wouldn’t get too obsessed over those stats.
@andrew103, you mention a frustration that I hope will finally get the attention it deserves from the developers.
- You might already have done this, but I’ll mention it anyway…. In your settings, go to App Settings > Reader and scroll down to “General” and make sure “Paging moves to known” is unchecked. (Otherwise, every page turn classifies un-lingq’ed words as “known”.)
- In response to my post Vocabulary Problems on LingQ, @roosterburton provided a software solution that allows one to reclassify “known words”
- LingQ still doesn’t have a toggle to stop unclicked words from being marked as “known” after finishing a lesson. Many of us have asked for this feature before, but it hasn’t been added, and I still wish they’d include it. “Finish Lesson” – Why assume un-clicked words are known?
Not sure if I’m seeing exactly what you’re seeing…but as others have mentioned turn all the auto paging turns to known type of stuff.
The odd or confusing thing is that now at the end of the lesson you’re still presented with a list of words and the button at the bottom “I know these x(number) words”. The confusing thing to me is that because I have the “auto turns to known” stuff all turned off…presumably I marked all these words as known while reading. If so, why am I being asked again?
Maybe it is to handle for those that have the “auto turns to known” turned on. It’s on by default as someone already mentioned. Still don’t know why they have this as the default option after all these years and complaints/confusion from folks. This maybe is their version of the remedy, but just seems to cause more confusion on top of confusion.
The problem is that you are clicking the final check mark at the end of the lesson, indicating that you have completed it. According to LingQ, “completing a lesson” includes classifying all of the un-clicked words as known words.
If you want to avoid this consequence, do not click on the final checkmark. Do not classify the lesson as “complete”. Of course, this is unsatisfying and also leads to a misclassification of lessons in your library, but it’s the only way to avoid the behavior you described.
