I have accumulated a ton of conjugated verb forms in my L1 linqs and I want to explicitly add the infinitives for them at L3 so I can explicitly filter to focus on studying them. Any advice as to how to accomplish this most efficiently?
Efficiency isn’t something LingQ is aiming for, to be honest. 
So If you want to specifically study the infinites, you may wanna use ANKI or some similar app and a respective vocabulary deck for this purpose.
Thanks.
It’s interesting because if one goes through the 60 Spanish Latin America mini-stories and Linqs all new words, you end up with about 600 conjugated verbs in your Vocab but only about 80 infinitives once distilled down. One problem with this comprehensible input stuff is that will invariably throw every tense in the book at you as a beginner which I don’t think is a good thing. Grabbing infinitives to focus on learning those first with flash cards would be a better learning path for beginners IMO.
I am also using Anki (and Duolingo) but was hoping to consolidate so I don’t have three different apps pestering me to study every day. I am very new to Linq (only signed up for a month so far) and am finding to GUI very user unfriendly/non-intuitive in places. But, I guess I’ll save that for another post.
There are various possible approaches at the beginner stage of language learning. Among them, the method adopted by LingQ differs in many ways from traditional approaches.
As a result, it can sometimes be difficult to apply other methodologies within the LingQ framework.
LingQ places a strong emphasis on input first. Therefore, it does not prioritize the accurate memorization of word forms at the beginning.
If you choose this method, you may find it extremely inefficient, especially if your goal is to start speaking as soon as possible.
What you do is simple: read sentences and focus on whether or not you understand the meaning of the words. You don’t even need to try to memorize them.
After doing this to a certain extent, you’ll likely find it much easier to acquire the skills that are typically required in traditional language learning.
I understand this and I specifically switched over to Linq because I’ve hit a wall with Duolingo and Anki in A2. So, I am looking forward to pursuing this method in its pure form for a majority of my study time. That being said, there are some things that could serve to accelerate learning and this is one of them in my opinion. I don’t NEED to know tenses to convey basic meaning if I want to have a very simple conversation with someone and learning infinitives is the fastest way to do that. I can simply point my finger forward when I want to convey I’m trying to communicate future tense and behind me when I’m trying to convey the past. Having to correlate all the different tense conjugations to the basic meanings of words is a “cart ahead of the horse” from my perspective. Tenses are obviously of critical importance for fluency. All I’m saying is that this is a situation where flashcards for all the infinitives used in the mini-stories would be an accelerant to understanding those stories.
It might be a good idea to make a list of infinitives yourself. The process itself could serve as a form of training.
However, LingQ’s system isn’t very good at importing vocabulary lists from external sources, so I recommend using a different app.
I’m saying this because I’ve personally found it frustrating, the LingQ development team seems to have very little interest in improving this aspect.
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Yes, I agree with that and I actually did that last night, thanks. The process of having to make a list and look up words in itself definitely helps me in itself. Many of the stories I repeat listened to today made considerably more sense after doing that even having not yet moved them to flashcards. I’m going to move these to Anki today and continue to supplement Linq with Anki moving forward.
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