I am a new user, and have realized what a mess it is to import a news article that is long and far above my level – I am now 15% in and afraid to completely overwhelm myself with LingQs I’m not ready for, or accidentally marking words known/ignored and never being able to mark them as unknown again. I don’t want to learn every word now or mark them all as LingQs yet. On my first read, I just want to skim for the main idea. For some words, when I clicked the dictionary button, the definitions were sometimes inaccurate, and I don’t want to spend the time to fix all these when I sit down the first read, nor do I want to add 100 new LingQs in one day. I don’t want hundreds of LingQs to review in the coming week – I just want to space out what I decide to learn with each reading, and I just want to mark those “known” or ignored words as blue again so I can come back to them later – whether in the same lesson or future lesson. In researching this, I see other users have complained about this issue for at least 5 years. Has it ever been fixed? I even watched a LingQ YouTube video, which states you can just go back to the word you marked as known, click on it, and it turns blue again. Really?? That doesn’t work for me. The minute I click elsewhere on the screen, it goes right back to white. Help!
Paging lessons automatically moves all remaining blue words on that page to known. We assume you have created LingQs for all unknown words before paging. If you do want to read the whole text, you can choose the Full Text option to see the full lesson at once without removing blue words.
Automatic removal of blue words can be turned off in the Settings for the Reader. Just click the gear icon in the top right corner of the Reader. The “Move words to known” option is the one to turn off. However, this just means that when you click the complete Lesson option on the last page, all your blue words for the whole lesson will be moved to known. There is no reason to keep blue words. The idea is that you either need to learn them or they are known. (or you can ignore words).
Having said that, you can click on all white words to make them blue again and create LingQs for them. So, if you are reading, and come across a word you incorrectly marked as known or ignored, just click on it to make it blue (but note that they will be blue only while they are selected, if you move away from them, they will switch back to white).
Finally, you can reset your language in your Language Settings - Login - LingQ
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions.
Hi. Thanks for the detailed reply. I already disabled “Paging moves to known.” But you did touch on something that still doesn’t make sense: “So, if you are reading, and come across a word you incorrectly marked as known or ignored, just click on it to make it blue (but note that they will be blue only while they are selected, if you move away from them, they will switch back to white).” This is something I mentioned in my original question. If you can turn a word back to blue, but then it turns back to white when you move your cursor, how does that mean it has gone back to “unknown” status?
You can’t move words back to unknown (blue) status, but what you can do is to select white words (known and ignored) and once you select them, blue popup window will appear and you will be able to make those words LingQs in case that you don’t know them.