Brand New LingQ 4.0 for Android!

Hi Jason,
Sorry, I missed your previous message! So the words with status 4 keeps appearing on your Due For Review (SRS) list? For now Daily LingQs and notifications aren’t available on the Android app and the list of words on your SRS list on the app are the same words you have on the website version. What if you try to review LingQs by specific date on the website version (under filters on the Vocabulary page), do you still see words with status 4 reappering every day?

That’s correct about status 4 and SRS. I’ve been using the website version for the past couple of days and it works fine there (still), so I’ll keep using that until the app supports SRS. Thanks for the workaround suggestion Zoran.

The Swedish bot pronounces words as if they were English, so that function is useless for the language in question at least. Also, is it not possible to do your daily review on the Android version anymore? Can’t find it anywhere. As in, the usual 25 or so words you get daily. Not just general review.

The update is way better than the last version. However, I have a hard time getting ahold of all my content. I am limited to my last 50 lessons.

On the last version, I was able to seach for lessons through the courses that I made. Now, if I want to get an old lesson or look through a certain course I made, I need to go on my mobile browser and search through my library.

It is kind of annoying.

I would like to see the option of searching thiough courses get put back into the Android app.

@Yiva For now Daily LIngQs aren’t available on the Android app, but that feature will be added in the upcoming updates.
We’ll try to improve Swedish TTS, thanks for letting us know. Do you have Google TTS installed and set as default on your device?

@jasonmcdowell85 Actually, you can use Vocabulary page filters on the Android app too and under “SRS Due” select and review LingQs from a specific days.
Notifications aren’t yet available, but you can find list of LingQs for each day under Filters on the Vocabulary page, just like on the website.

I have an issue with the app, not sure if I am doing something wrong. If i review my words after I’ve read the lesson they only go through once so don’t get upgraded a level (as was mentioned above). Also if I want to manually select a level (for example 4 if I know it) i still have to press the tick button to proceed rather than it automatically going to the next word. Both these work in the ios version on my ipad.

Thanks

@wato - We will look into these issues for you but you should know that the tick button is not a submit button. It makes the word Known (Status 4 - Never review). We will get all of these functions working as they do on iOS hopefully soon.

Zoran, I really miss the availability of more than one playlist a lot. Steve promotes the idea of interleaving. In the context of listening, interleaving means to me that I will listen to more simple and more complex stuff depending on my listening situation: While I am driving a car I will listen to stuff I have listened to many times before while when I am doing something that allows me a Little more concentration on the subject, like doing the dishes, I will listen to materials that are relatively new to me.
Filling dead time with listening works only if I have a playlist ready when I start. I can’t get that when I first have to throw everything out of my playlist and put a different series of lessons back in every time before I start. I don’t understand how on Earth the decision to abolish multiple playlists could have been made, sorry. These lists were a very strong feature of the old app.

A second issue I have appears when I use the activities feature in the app for Greek. In the browser, I get a very good text-to-speech functionality, but in the srs built into the app, I get the spelling of the word in the American English terms for the Greek letters, so the word αδελφός will sound like alphadeltaepsilonlambdaphiomikronsigma, spoken by a very sharp female voice. It would be very helpful if I could choose not to hear the text-to-speech in the srs like I do it in the lessons.

For some reason i can’t reply to your comment… I meant that if I change a word to 4, I still have to flip the card and then hit the tick button to go to the next word. Not the tick in the status bar.

Make sure that you have Google TTS installed on your device and set us default. That should solve your issue with Greek TTS and make it sound much better.

I understand your concerns about the playlists, we will see if there is a room for improvement in future updates, but for now we will stick with one playlist per language.

Yes, the responses only go so many levels deep. Ahh…I understand the issue now. Yes, both issues you reported are bugs and should be fixed soon. Btw, the first issue only happens when you have 1 activity selected only.

Thanks for your fast reply :slight_smile:
Google TTS was installed by default. At least I could change the output, the words are now spelled aloud in German (better understandable to me) by switching to system language as default.
But unfortunately, Greek is not among the languages available. Same probleme would arise for Alpha languages Latin, Esperanto, Romanian, and Beta languages Hebrew, Arabic, Slovak, Malay. So the variety of languages at Lingq is growing faster than Google’s TTS language family :wink:
I would really appreciate the possibility of switching off TTS when I do the activities in the app.

Hello everyone, good news!
The LingQ Android app has been localized and is now available in these languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, German, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Russian.