Make Multiple Choice More Effective with Long Words

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Here’s an example in German

ausgezeichnete
a. never
b. shrine
c. outstanding, excellent
d. first

without knowing anything you can pretty much guess that the answer is C since the English translation is approximately the same length as the German word.

Maybe you could:

Get the length of the answer
Add other wrong answers that are ±2 or 3 characters from the length of the answer

Finally, I would like to see an option to be able to choose from more answers than 4. 5 would be good. 6 I think would be fantastic

EDIT:

Actually, this technique should be used for short words too. If you’re asked what “as” means in German, it’s really doubtful the answer would be 10-15 characters long. So on short word answers, show mostly short word answers too

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There are many ways in which we could improve LingQ. Our issue is priorities, the greatest benefit for the greatest number of users. I do not see us spending programming time on this, sorry.

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I think you were being too nice Steve. After using Linqg for a week now I realize how stupid my suggestion is – I now see that most hints can/could be quite long ( like “at, in, on, near; indicating time or location; toward” for “am” in German). However, I still think bumping up the multiple choice to 6 choices would be fantastic. Maybe some day

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