I don’t follow the LingQ system for learning new vocabulary - at least I don’t think I do. However, I keep noticing in the stats that there is a target for how many LingQs I should acquire and learn.
Is it realistic to learn these LingQs?
The library isn’t large enough for you to encounter these words over and over through reading and learning them by rote through flashcards seems undesirable.
What do others think?
LingQs learned means nothing else than that you changed the status of a word from LingQ (yellow, unknown) to known (white). There will be words that you recognize or understand directly but for many other words you will need a process of gradual acquisition. 4000 is really not that much but from your stats I also get that you have created relatively few LingQs, so maybe you should seek more challenging content where you encounter less known words.
At the moment, you only have 2296 Lingq’s you could learn. JulianTogo is pointing it out but it’s not super clear at first…If you go from blue word direct to known, then it doesn’t count as a “lingq”, So to learn 4000 more you’d need to take the 2296 ones you did mark as “yellow” and progress them to known plus create 2000-ish more Lingq’s (mark them yellow) and progress those to known.
So really there’s not any action you should do on this imo. If you want to review the 2296 you have then by all means do it, but it’s not necessary.
The library is unlimited in the sense that you can import whatever you want. Don’t restrict yourself to just what’s in the library. Find the things you want to read/listen to and import them. Much more enjoyable this way.
One thing to note is that can’t really control when a LingQ is a learned. Only if you put yourself in conditions that would allow you to learn.
If you have learned 4 050 LingQs, then that means you have learned 4 050 words that you did not know when you first saw them in the LingQ app! It is more a measure that you are learning, which is great, but I wouldn’t set it as a goal per se. That said, you should certainly celebrate when you achieve those type of milestones and move the goalposts 
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I have checked your profile. It’s true that category “Ling learned” appears in red. It looks like you don’t create lots of LingQ and you put words directly to known. It’s your method and it’s fine. So you are using Lingq in a different way that the stat expects you to use them. No issue here.
It makes make sense to interpret “Lingq learned” when a larger number of Lingqs is created.
In my experience with Ukrainian I do encounter several times the same lingq I have created. Often I pester because I know that’s not the first time I see that word and I’m still unable to remember it. After some time I remember the word and put it to yellow.
Over what kind of time frame does it say that you are expected to learn 4000 LingQs? I haven’t really paid attention to this, because I’m always creating LIngQs, so this has never been a problem for me. LingQs are one of the best features of LIngQ because you’re not restricted to working on individual words, like you are in most other language acquisition websites/apps. In LingQ, you can highlight up to 9 words to work with as a unit, provided that they’re in the same sentence. This works best when all of the highlighted words are on the same line of text, and sometimes works (albeit a lot less reliably) when the words are split between 2 lines of text. This can be especially handy when you are trying to improve your understanding of phrases and multi-word idioms, or when the sentence order of your target language is significantly different from your mother tongue. It seems to me that you are mostly used to LingQing just individual words, like I was initially, and not LingQing multiple words so that you can work on phrases, idioms, and shorter sentences as units.
There is really no way to answer that question. Our brains don’t work like a file on a computer where we can simply save them and so we can’t simply go into our brains and save words, at least not yet.
Some of it also depends on how you use the app. Like are you LingQ’ing every single word you don’t know? How specifically do you decide that a LingQ’d word is known and move it to know? How well did you know Ukranian before using LingQ? These questions are purely rhetorical to illustrate why it’d be impossible to answer how long it would take to learn learn 4 000 LingQs.
The number has a “goal”, but the moment you achieve a new level of known words, the goal will go up.
The goals I would recommend setting are ones that you can control - time with the language and possibly LingQs created. LingQs created implies you are seeing new words which is something you can somewhat control. Your time with the language can be measured in words read, words written and hours spent listening, speaking, reading and writing. Doing these things are creating the environment needed for you to succeed and you can control and measure them. You could every day answer the question - did you spend an hour listening to Ukranian? If so - you’re on the right track.
LingQ makes no claim when you should learn it’s highly individual, but if you shift the time period it shows how many you should aim for within a period, I chose six months here. It shifts also with what level you’re at in each language. Picture one being Intermediate 1 and Picture 2 being Intermediate 2 for 6 months each
I would like to add that its important to not think of LingQ as a place to find content, but instead LingQ is a website that allows you easier access to enjoy content you love “ie” importing your own content. Try to find as much content you can outside of lingq and then bring it into Lingq. That’s where LingQ shines.
