Hello, I’ve been learning German for a few months now. A problem I’m having is that the audio I’m listening to usually goes faster than I can read, especially when I’m creating LingQ. Do you guys stop the audio every time you make a LingQ? Read once without the audio and then again with the audio? Not look up all the words? Something else? Curious how other people handle this problem. Thanks for any suggestions!
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I nearly always read new content carefully first before listening, identifying and LingQing new words as I read.
I’m learning Chinese, though, so the written symbols aren’t really connected with the sounds the same way they are in German. There are like 50x more written symbols than pronounced syllables, and each symbol normally has several possible meanings.
For example, you cannot simply verbally ask a Chinese speaker what yu2 means. Without context, there are probably 100 possible responses. If you also give them a character like 鱼 they know it means fish, but if you give 于 (same pronunciation as 鱼) it could mean any of these:
So, new words are most often a syllable (or two, or four) I’ve heard before but a symbol I’ve never seen (or seen used in a different way), and I haven’t figured out how to learn new words and connect them to symbols well by just listening. Maybe that will change with more experience, or maybe I just need to chill out a bit.
In short, we’re likely solving rather different problems and my approach may not be terribly relevant to your challenge. 
If it helps, I often stop the audio to look up the meaning of words. Also, you can slow down the audio using the speed control in LingQ.
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I usually stop it with this application. I like the idea of listening without advanced knowledge since a lot of times that is how real life is. There are other things where I will be listening / watching and will be away from the screen and unable to stop it so there’s a balance.
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I stop to create LingQ most of the time. LingQ creation can be the limiting factor in stydying a text. I’m looking forward when I will have text with less LingQ I have to create.
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I normally listen or watch a content one or two times, depending on the complexity of that content, and then just read/create lingqs. if its smth i really liked i can then re-listen the same podcast/video many times
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For me it depends mostly on what I happen to do first. For example, if I find some content on youtube that I like, I’m usually listening to it while doing dishes, or sitting on the couch. I’ll just listen/watch it first (usually with subtitles). If I find it interesting enough or simply want to dig deeper into words/meanings that I didn’t understand then I’ll import it into Lingq. Here I’ll read and look up the words. No audio usually, unless I just want to play that sentence. Or I may simply skip to all the blue and maybe yellow words, read the sentence and see if I can derive the meaning. If I can’t, I lingq it.
Other times I’ll get content from the web or book that is text. I will simply read the whole things/lingqing it (almost always in sentence mode, unless it is easy text). Then I might go generate audio for it, but usually not.
In short, it depends on how you work it. I think it would probably be better to just listen (usually while reading if you can) and just go through the entire thing like that first. Then go back and Lingq anything and then read/listen to it again with the better clarity you have with the meanings.
There’s no right or wrong way though, so try some different ways suggested by others and see what seems to fit best for you. Also…it may change as you get better with the language.
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I usually listen to the audio first, trying to understand or at least get an idea of the content. Afterwards I read through the transcript and create the lingq’s. I don’t do audio all too often, though, as just reading is faster and I am mainly focused on building up vocabulary and grammar knowledge.
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Thanks for all the ideas!
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I only stop if i really want to try and fully understand a sentence that otherwise didn’t make sense to me. Other than that i just lingQ as the lesson plays and eventually it will stick after coming across the words enough. As Steve say’s you will eventually see the word again if its important enough.
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Hello. I am studying English and I like do this method during my study sections: first, I read the whole text to catch the meaning and make the LINGQs together. After, I listen the text and follow the transcript. I’m used to do this part two times.
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