Hello,
I just registered for the free edition to try out LingQ and have a couple of questions,
1.) How do you find the correct translation, and why, when you hover over a word, do you get multiple meanings ? ( for me, it just confuses the issue).
2.) How can you re-set the lesson ? With all the clicking I was doing trying to find the translation, I ended up “knowing” words that I don’t know.
Thank you.
@mojavemike - 1) When you hover on a word you get the 3 most popular hints that others have created for that word. If you think one of them is the hint you are looking for, just click on it. Otherwise, click the “+ New Hint” button to check our various dictionaries to come up with your own hint. Make sure to scroll all the way to the bottom of the Baylon dictionary definition to find the links to the Other Dictionaries.
2) It isn’t a problem if you click “I know all” before you have finished creating LingQs. Simply highlight the words you don’t know and then hover on the blue highlighting that appears. You can also highlight and LingQ phrases this way.
2.) How can you re-set the lesson ? With all the clicking I was doing trying to find the translation, I ended up “knowing” words that I don’t know.
You mean you want to reset all yellow highlight words, don’t you? If so, there is no button to do that job. However, you can delete the highlight each one at a time, by pointing at the word you want to delete. When the popup appear, click at ‘Edit LingQ’. Wait until a editing pop-up window appear, then click at ‘delete’ at the bottom of the window.
2.) How can you re-set the lesson ? With all the clicking I was doing trying to find the translation, I ended up “knowing” words that I don’t know.
You mean you want to reset all yellow highlight words, don’t you? If so, there is no button to do that job. However, you can delete the highlight each one at a time, by pointing at the word you want to delete. When the popup appear, click at ‘Edit LingQ’. Wait until a editing pop-up window appear, then click at ‘delete’ at the bottom of the window.
In beginner Korean “who is she ?” part 1, no words, neither blue nor yellow, are highlighted. When I try to highlight a sentence, most times the whole sentence disappears…if it stays highlighted, it will say “no previous hints found”. Maybe it’s bugged.
I tried another lesson, and all words where highlighted…however, when using the hints, I was hard pressed, at times, to make a sentence recognizable in english…it was like using a dictionary to learn Korean. I like the audio, but if I don’t know what they are talking about,???
Korean sentence structure compared to western sentence structure are worlds apart, and I think for this learning system to work (imho) with Asian languages (Korean in my case), you need a basic understanding of the sentence structure.
As an example, here is a simple sentence in english:-
“Did you know that the fox was not always red ?”
In Korean it translates to:-
“Fox always red was not that know did you ?”
Thank you.
One Remark: Recently, the same problem happened to me. I tried to highlight a phrase and the whole sentence disappeared from my screen. I happened more than once to me, but I couldn’t figure out a specific rule when this will happen. There seems to be a bug. Refreshing the lesson helps.
As Vera says, you should probably try to refresh the page. It normally helps in getting all the bugs fixed up.
The learning philosophy here at LingQ is a bit different from what you’ll find in other places, so that might be what is throwing you off a bit.
Because Korean is a language that we added recently, there won’t be user hints for every single term. In order to find the meaning of these words you’ll have to look in the dictionary (which appears when you click “+New Hint”). The “No previous hints found” notification is displayed for this very reason – nobody has added a hint to this term yet.
It’s better to add a hint to words rather than sentences. If you translate every sentence as a complete sentence then you’ll find yourself hard pressed to understand how the grammar works. With a language like Korean, you might be better off spending an hour or two familiarizing yourself with the grammatical structure of the language so that you’re not completely confused.
Perhaps the best thing to do is just work your way through the texts. You don’t have to understand everything the first time through, and you shouldn’t expect to. But with enough exposure to the language everything will start to fall into place.
As Alex says, in the LingQ system you have to accept a certain amount of ambiguity at the beginning as your brain tries to form patterns for the new language.
You are also well advised to buy a small introductory book for Korean that will help you understand some general principles of Korean structure. If you review this, then listen to our content, and read it, and save words, things will gradually come together. The large exposure, and the fact that you have struggled to piece the language together will eventually enable you to learn the language better.
I also hope that some of our members will add notes to the beginner lessons. Alex has already done that in some cases.
It sounds like that might be the lesson you clicked I Know All for. What happens when you highlight individual words? If you see hint options and choose one, does the yellow highlighting show?