I've recommended LingQ before in the past, but

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It’s still interesting to know your opinion about the topic.

[dianajefimova]

@baguettenjoyer

If someone were to be interested in my language journey (which never happened before), then I would be amiss not to mention LingQ (or any other apps/sites/etc that facilitate comprehensible input). Yet how pointless it would be if someone were to possess all the tools for Comprehensive Input, while ignoring the underlying theory to which they point, not knowing how to apply them, what to expect etc. So, I guess,theory first, then tools for it.
I would recommend them LingQ as “training wheels/fat wheels”, ie you can definitely learn language without these tools, but with them it’s more handy. At some point, those wheels will become obsolete.
While I think that tools such as LingQ might not be necessary (since I’ve done all that comprehensive input thingy years ago without them, scribbling dictionaries in my notebooks, painfully slow, not knowing what I was doing), comprehensive input seems to be irreplaceable.

I remember exactly the same, slowly, with a sore back, sitting every day to learn something.
6 months ago when I found out about Lingq and learned it, my whole back even stopped hurting from happiness​:sweat_smile: