After hearing a lot of documentaries and videos in Spanish for nearly a month(note that I started LingQ already being fluent in Spanish), I managed to learn new words and improved my comprehension. I started with a famous books called the Little Prince which was not too bad and decided to read Lord of the Flies, which is very heavy in describing things. The first chapter was a doozy to tackle but as I went through the chapters, I started to understand some key descriptive verbs being reused over and over and thus my lingqs were marked more lighter.
I read up to 8 chapters before stopping and rereading the first chapters and let’s just say that I shaved off maybe 50-80 lingqs. I still have over 700 lingqs for the whole books which some chapters containing 50-100 lingqs but I really love the journey so far.
When the fiasco with the importing gets fixed, I hope to get started on reading The Catcher in the Rye in order to keep learning new words and to let my brain get new content so that when I keep rereading Lord of the Flies, I know more words with a fresh perspective!
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This might be a weird question, but I have not been able to import books into Lingq, because most books are part of a socalled “service”. Think bookbeat, storytel etc. How do you get your books, so you can import them into Lingq?
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Get them on Google Play or Kobo, remove the DRM using Calibre or epubor ultimate, and you’re good to go.
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I will consider that. However, my experience with kobo is not good. This is mostly due to the bad configurability of the fontsize plus the too small size of the kobo. I will have a look at google play though, maybe I can download them to a notebook.
Thanks for the tip.
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If you search for [book title in spanish] pdf you will be surpised what you can get. I got Juego de Tronos pdf this way and no need to do anything other than import. There’s also loads of classics free one various sites.
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another thing that worked for me. I downloaded Hombre Interesante on the iphone kindle app simply highlighted all the text copied and pasted into lingq. Ok for smaller books I guess.
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Amazon Kindle books can also be unprotected by Epubor. You don’t even need a Kindle. Just install the Kindle app on your computer and then use Epubor to unprotect it for loading into LingQ.
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