Linq isnt marking my imported content with new words

[tarkonis]

Hi, as the title suggests, I am importing some transcripts from things I am watching online into linq, but it is not marking new words in blue. It leaves all the words white until I linq them. Any idea how to correct this?

Thanks.

[SeoulMate]

Hi ,

I believe I know what the problem is as the same happened to me once before.

If you go in the lesson settings, make sure the “highlighting” is set either on “standard” or “foreground”. It must not be off or your entire text will look blank.

[srdurden]

Are the words that are not highlighted in blue marked as words to ignore or as known words? It might be related to the bug I reported in the following thread:

Bug - Errors when manually splitting words in a sentence

For the past few weeks, I’ve noticed (using the iOS app) that when editing a Japanese sentence to separate two words by adding a space between them, the word correctly turns yellow when it’s supposed to be yellow. However, in other cases, whether it’s a known word or a word I’ve never encountered before, it’s always marked as a known word, which is incorrect. For example, if the phrase is ‘猫が好きです,’ the LingQ importer treats it as three separate words: '猫"+"が "+“好きです”. If I try to split ‘好き’ (an…

[tarkonis]

Hi

Thanks for replying.

How do I go into lesson settings? I dont see that option.

Im clicking the elipses next to the lesson itself I see view course delete etc… but no settings.

[tarkonis]

I think they are just not marked at all. They just appear white like a known word until I link them.

When I click on them they are at level 1.

[jpp025]

Hi @tarkonis,

There are 2 ways:

1. In Reader Mode:

2. From Your Learn/Lesson Page:

Edit: roosterburton also shows how to get directly to the highlighting settings (within the same sections I show in my images).

[tarkonis]

Hi,

Thanks for replying!

I can get to the settings page but where are the new words settings?

I dont see a reply from RoosterBurton?

[jpp025]

@tarkonis

I dont see a reply from RoosterBurton?

It’s linked in blue in my previous reply:

Here is the highlighted link for your convenience:

Temporarily hiding LingQs for distraction free reading?

Hi @JargonArabiyeh There is a couple ways you can do this. Natively you can turn these settings here [image] [image] I Also have a HotKeys addon that has this feature, and another bind to make LingQs Bold text instead Rooster HotKeys "Remove Colours: ": “”, //New bind "Remove Colours and Bolden Text: ": “”, //New bind

@tarkonis

I can get to the settings page but where are the new words settings?

Those settings will apply across your words (which include your new words). It’s just how you get your highlighting for your words to show up for you as SeoulMate mentioned.

This is a screenshot of all my highlighting settings to see blue lingqs (and all lingqs in general):

You might have to experiment to see what works best for you with your target language.

Note: I’m learning Korean, so “Foreground” highlighting in the “Dark Theme” shows up better for me when I’m studying in dark mode, so that’s why my setting is like that.

[tarkonis]

Thanks for the reply.

I dont think its the highlighting settings that are the problem here.

For example… I have uploaded 2 new imported lessons to link using transcripts.

Linq says there are 0 new words in them, when this is false.

If it was highlighting settings, I think it would still say there were new words in them, but then not highlight them.

[jpp025]

Ah, I see, this sounds more like a bug to report in the Support & Feedback Forum rather than the Open Forum.

They’ll be able to talk to their development team and figure it out for you.

Edit: The only other thing I can think of is that your *paging moves to known" feature might have been on, and it might have marked a whole bunch of words known for you. That might be why it shows 0% New Words for your lessons:

I keep my *paging moves to known" feature unchecked to prevent LingQ from marking words as known when I move to the next “page” in my lesson.

P.S. This setting/section can be found in the same place as the highlight feature I showed before (you just have to scroll down more on the page):

@jpp025

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[tarkonis]

ah ok, ive now changed that setting and will import a new lesson.

Thanks for the advice, ill make a new post over at the support forum.

[jpp025]

No problem, glad it helps! (If only a little.)

Edit: Though if it’s related to the “paging moves to known” feature, then you’ll have to mark unknown words manually until you catch all the words LingQ marked as known (turned white words) due to the “paging moves to known” feature that was on up until you turned it off.

Here are some additional replies/topics that I found related to a similar feature that you might want to know about, too (in case it’s helpful):

• Finishing a Lesson (clicking the checkmark at the end of a lesson) marks all words within the lesson as “Known”:

For example:

Helpful Topics/replies:

Finishing a lesson moves all unknown words to known

That is how it always worked. Even with the “Move words to known” option disabled, 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 incor…

How does Linq decide you know a word

Do you have “Paging moves to known” option enabled under the settings? If so, each time you move pages all remaining blue words on the page will be made known. Even if you have that option disabled, when you complete a lesson, all remaining blue words will be considered known, so make sure not to leave any blue words behind.