Mandarin Chinese: Please proof read the Mini Stories urgently!

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While going through the Mini Stories looking for Chinese characters with multiple pronunciations (called: 多音字 / duō yīn zì) I found a string of other errors in Mini Story 6.

Errors listed by sentence number: wrong > correct

2: 简和福 来 得 > 简 和 福来得 (Jane and Fred) (wrong spaces)
3: 7 > 七 (Arabic numbers used, also in 14, 27, other numbers in 7, 18, 28, 29)
8: 热水澡 > 热 水澡 (also 19 - “hot bath” isn’t one word, or?)
13: 福 来 得 > 福来得 (also 24, 43, 44) (wrong spaces)

Please proof read ALL Mandarin Chinese mini stories ASAP!

Some other other errors in other stories so far:

1a: 着 zhe/zhao (9 - audio error single character)
1b: 着 zhe/zhao (9 - audio error single character)
2: 还 hai/huan (10 - audio error single character)
便 pian/bian

I wonder if I am the first one taking up Chinese Mandarin? This should have been corrected loooong ago.

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Here are the 3 most common 多音字 errors in Mini-Story 1-20 - the error is the Pinyin and the single character audio - the sentence is correct:

着 wrong: zhao // correct: zhe
还 wrong: huan // correct: hai
便 wrong: bian // correct: pian
了 wrong: liao // correct: le

That means, for 多音字 characters you need to have multible sets of Pinyin and audio.
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We’ll look into it. Thanks.

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How is the looking going?

I paused while it’s getting fixed. Now it’s 3 weeks later and still not fixed. I am a paying user that can’t use the buggy material. (But strangely get those reminder messages asking me to keep learning)

Can you at least pause my subscription and then add those 3 weeks later once it has been sorted out?

So far I looked only at the Mini Stories, I thought that’s the LingQ own system and therefore must be perfect. OK, that’s my error.

I suggest you remove the Mini Stories from Mandarin and put them back when they are fixed.

In the meantime I am looking forward to some other material suggestions for learning Mandarin. Or a refund if LingQ can’t provide it yet.

I have to admit, my experience is very disappointing. I understand that bugs can happen, but believe the Mini Stories are out for maybe a few weeks or month, so there must be more reports from users. Or maybe I am the only one doing Mandarin here with the Mini Stories.

I can actively help, but seems nobody cares. Nothing gets fixed.

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