For me LingQ is an assisted reader which lets me watch videos while reading the transcript and looking up words and phrases as and when needed. Importing videos is central to my workflow. £100 is a bit expensive for an assisted reader, but I get that they can’t work for free, Steve does need to pay for his foreign jolies, and in the grand scheme of things £100 is small beer especially given how much benefit I get from it.
As regards content, I know some of the German material was created by non professionals and it shows. The mini stories were bug ridden, though they claim to have redone them as a result of my bug reports. Avoid built in content, import your own.
However, import is for me non functional which makes LingQ pointless unless they fix import. I suspect they could create a fix, albeit with a few months work.
I got your point but if you look on the internet, you will find other open source app like LingQ for the assisted reader which keep your vocabulary. So, for free, you have quite the same. The only difference was the community. And the UI, of course, which is great here.
BUT, now, what the purpose of LingQ instead of the free alternative ? I didn’t see new material, and I’ve lost 11 days without any import because that was not working . I can’t even share my work, we are not allowed anymore.
Where is there an equivalent that can preserve imported audio? I’ve seen assisted readers with robot voices, I hate them. They don’t train your brain to understand native speakers.
I will try News In Slow German, my German is only A2/B1, and see how that goes.
@keni.M_k Well there is a video from a Ugandan who says a certain phrase and from what I understand, they mostly speak Swahili in Uganda. Always wanted to know what the phrase meant. I asked some Swahili speakers and they told me what he says there is actually slang from Arabic. Could you confirm the meaning for me by any chance? I’d just have to warn you the contents of this video are not the most positive or work safe sort of talk, but you wouldn’t need to watch more than a scond of it since, the link directs to exactly where he says the phrase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhmUqJzu9eI&t=136s
It seems to me the views on capitalism and it’s alternatives are being simplified quite a bit here. Systems can be capitalistic or socialistic to degrees and in different fields. Most Western countries can be said to be something of a blend, some more or less this or that in general and in different areas. All systems of government have their problems. Very different systems can certainly ruin the same sorts of things, even in the same sort of way. All systems tend to collapse in the end, sometimes due to corruption but also a mix of other factors.
. I can’t even share my work, we are not allowed anymore.