Marking words while watching Youtube videos on LingQ?

Support & Feedback Forum
1

I’m not sure if I’m missing something here but I don’t see a way to be able to quickly create LingQs while watching a Youtube video with the video playing.

I can enter sentence mode and it’s virtually exactly what I’m looking for. It has the video playing and I can mark words while the video plays. But in this mode the video pauses every single sentence and I have to manually go next. Incredibly annoying and unusable.

In the normal video player, it has the video and text which is nice but I have to enter page view or setence view to create LingQs. In page view the sound plays but not the video.

Anyone have solutions to this? I want to be able to watch like normal and create LingQs/mark words as known while I’m watching

6 Likes
2

You aren’t missing anything. At the moment that is how it works. We’ll see what we can do to improve this in the future.

3

I would also love to see improvements in this feature, as video content has become a substantial element in recent years. It would be amazing to select individual words to create a lingq and then have the video automatically play again!

3 Likes
4

Agreed. Feels like it would be a massive massive win for LingQ. For now I don’t really watch videos using LingQ because of this

5 Likes
5

This is a core feature, my number 1 wish for LinQ. Would be amazing if added!

2 Likes
6

for me i split screen lingq and just use the pop out video feature on both chrome and firefox so that you can resize the video how ever you want while still getting the listening time from lingq. I just move the lingq player out of the way. Its not perfect but yeah it would be great to see an improvement in this area

2 Likes
7

You really should look at how Migaku handles that: They integrated their system into the sites, whether it’s texts or Youtube/ Disney+ etc. They also take over the video from the site with the pronunciation instead of only relying on TTS.

2 Likes
8

exactly what I was looking for, the video feature seems clunky, in that yoou can read the transcript and add lingqs, but while watching it, you can’t do anything and have to keep going between the transcript without the video, and the transcript while the video is playing and often the video starts from the beginning again.

Would love to see this sreamlined like the rest of the features!

2 Likes
9

Same problem here. In fact I have switched to using readlang for most of my language study because of this problem. I definitely like lingq for the most part, but this is a bit of a deal breaker for me