LingQ is a great app. In my experience exploring the language-learning platform space, no similar application has the potential that LingQ has. It’s a fully grounded and serious app.
That being said, LingQ is currently lacking the functionality that one would expect from a 15.00/month platform. There are two functionalities in the reader that LingQ absolutely needs, and must be added in order for this application to do its job.
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The reader needs to accurately track audio.
It must do this unequivocally, with 99 to 100% accuracy. In my popular courses (El Hilo, for example) the tracking is literally off by two, maybe sometimes three minutes. It operates on this margin of error at least 80% of the time. It makes reading/listening exercises very inefficient. -
The reader needs segmented playback options.
The sentence by sentence playback has the right idea. But in its current state its a failure because 1) The audio doesn’t encapsulate the written segment (see issue #1). The written segments are often hilariously short, (quite literally, one or two words in some places).
When I listen to Spotify and the music has lyrics available, it tracks the lyrics and allows immediate playback upon the lyrics that I click. This ability to induce repetition in a controlled, accessible way is gold. Lingq needs this functionality.
Thank you.