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Can you post a screenshot of this? What exactly do you mean by saw a menu link for Vocabulary?
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Is there anything in the screenshot that differs from what I described?
@zorbital Thanks for the screenshot and explanation. Regarding the saved meaning, it won’t fix automatically. For already saved words, you’ll need to edit the meaning on your end.
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@zorbital Are you saying that these words were saved to your vocabulary with wrong meanings automatically? You didn’t select this specific meanings?
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@zorbital Strange, how many of these wring meanings you see in your saved Vocabulary items?
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I can’t say for sure what happened, but there shouldn’t be anything in your vocabulary unless you save the word. This happens if you click the plus sign next to a blue word (in sentence view) or click on the blue word and choose a meaning from a list of meanings.
Until you’ve done any of that it’s somewhat pointless to go to vocabulary section. If you already have a bunch of words there, then you, or someone else has saved them. Are you sharing the account with someone?
In any event, I copied the phrase that you showed above and imported it into my Russian section. “in” is not the top definition for the word in any of the views for автомобильчика:
Sentence view:
selecting the word:
“in” is in the list at the bottom, but you would have to actively choose that to actually have it become a “meaning” in your list of meanings. Obviously someone entered this meaning. Lingq users select and/or provide their own meanings (which get shared with others).
No idea how it got chosen for the word in your vocabulary section. But there’s an easy solution. Click it and choose the proper meaning and dump the old one. Same for anything else that is wrong.
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Isn’t there a feature for automatic LingQ creation, that could have saved this meaning by default if it was the first suggestion without OP being aware that this was going on? I personally don’t use this feature (precisely for situations where the top suggestion is wrong), but OP might have it switched on.
I was contemplating that…you mean the paging moves to known or at the end when you complete? I’m not sure. I thought if you go straight to known that it doesn’t add it as a LingQ (and therefore not into vocabulary section). I thought only if you move something to yellow (and then ultimately to known would stay).
Even still, doesn’t seem like “in” is one of the top options based on what I tried. But who knows.
Yet the example phrase doesn’t have a hyphen in it. So I’m not exactly sure how you come to that conclusion. Do you have any content that does have that word joined with a hyphen? How many words do you have in the vocabulary list?
No. I’m telling you that if you don’t make a blue word yellow (by choosing one of the meanings or entering your own and putting it to a level other than “known”) then it won’t appear in your vocabulary. One of the other posters wondered if one of the “auto” creation features may add it to your vocabulary. I tried “paging moves to known” and “auto lingq creation” and both seem to do the same thing. Set them to known and not add to vocabulary so that doesn’t seem to be the case for you. Do you have either of those two checkboxes on? I would’ve thought the “auto lingq creation” might set a word to level 1 yellow with the top meaning, but it didn’t seem to do that for me. I personally leave both of these off.
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It’s easier nowadays. I usually do Lingq in sentence view so I can hit the “translate sentence” button which usually highlights a better meaning on specific words that have different meanings in different contexts.
In sentence mode you see a list of the blue words and the “top” meaning which may be the so called top meaning in Lingq or an AI chosen meaning (not sure which, and for context, LingQ used to allow users to rank meanings and they used to be all user entered). So it’s pretty easy just to click + and add the word if the meaning suits you and makes sense in the context. You can go into the details of the word and choose other meanings as secondary options or modify or add other meanings with the host of online dictionaries. Usually I’m only doing this with more obscure words that don’t have a great choice that fits the context.
For choosing a number for the “yellow” word. It’s all personal preference and everyone has their own way. I just do something that’s fast and I don’t need to dwell on it, because frankly it doesn’t really matter. Essentially, I mark a word known if I recognize and understand in context. If not, I set it to 1. Then if I see the word in another piece of content , or the following day, and I don’t remember the meaning, I’ll bump it to 2, then to 3. I’ll leave it at 3 until it comes a time where I do remember the meaning and then I’ll set to known. If I come across a known word and don’t remember it anymore I’ll usually set back to 3…or leave it. Others try to come up with a “how well I know this word” sort of level. I did this at first, but it takes time to contemplate such things so I dumped that strategy =).
@zorbital If you have auto-create LingQs option unabled (which sounds like you do), then LingQ will save words for you and automatically apply a meaning to it.
Please, let me know if this word example is the only issue you see in your Vocabulary.
I think you mean enabled (not normally one to correct someone’s spelling, but I think this might lead to confusion given the meaning of unable)