We’re always looking for ways to bring more authentic, everyday content into LingQ. Right now, we support imports from places like YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, TikTok, and various news sites via RSS.
I’d love to hear from you about other types of content you’d like to see supported. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Restaurant menus – great for learning food and daily life vocab.
Street signs – short, practical text that you actually see in real life.
Reddit threads or subreddit feeds – conversational, community-driven discussions.
Live recording + transcription – record a conversation, lecture, or meeting and instantly turn it into a LingQ lesson.
Memes – short, funny, often colloquial language from images. We would need to OCR the text from the image here and then clean it up.
But that’s just the start! What else would you love to import into LingQ?
Drop your suggestions below. We can’t guarantee we can add all of your ideas (some of them might be technically unfeasible at the moment…), but the more users seem interested in a particular type of content, the more we know to prioritise adding it.
A lot of the US government’s (FSI, DLI, Peace Corps) language learning audio/text material is copyright free and available online in various archives. For the most part, they are teaching material and not designed to be comprehensible input but I’ve found the materials helpful and seems like an easy way to beef up the relatively small languages here on Lingq.
Probably a very niche type of content, but for the very advanced learner, legal documents might be of interest. Laws, decrees, etc., which nowadays are available online on official websites of parliaments.
Here is one example from Austria: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at
I can currently take a picture of anything (a sign, a page in a book, etc.) with my phone and ask Gemini to transcribe it in any language. I could even import it into LingQ and make a lesson. It’d be nice, however, to integrate that all into one package, where you could take a picture of something and make an instant mini-lesson. Would be very helpful for learning on the go in restaurants, on the subway, etc.
AI to generate 1000 words at a certain lexile level (600 is low intermediate, 1200 is a difficult book).
One of my experiments was below.
It was a bit of a pain to keep copying and pasting to get it into LingQ.
The aim for me is interesting things to read at the right reading level (hard to find for Greek). I trust AI enough that it will get the grammar good enough for my purposes.
Ideally, there would be a one button press (app and web) to create another chunk of text within certain categories (and “news” could be one of them).
And if you get it right, it’s available for most of your language, depending on the language abilities of AI in each language. Formatting can be a pain if it splits sentences badly when played in sentence mode.
For English, consider how much of this forum you can use. Other people’s language journeys are interesting.
You are providing text for someone to read a language using the comprehensible input approach.Summarise topics from news today.Only use news from reliable sources.Use topics you have not talked about today. Summarise each news topic in modern Greek. Use language and grammar at the A1 level of proficiency of the language.Use simple words, vocabulary and sentences.Do not use any English words or links.Do this forty times.Please use paragraph form without bullet points or numbers. Write 500 words.
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Another idea i had was a course with advertisement in target language. Actual real ads that we reader gets credit/paid to read/watch while learning the language. LingQ could get paid by advertisers too. Ads tend to be catchy and is something real that one would encounter in the real world.
GameBooks
If you can create something like a chose your own adventure type course/book that will be fun.
I think game book can work well since each section are very short and are less than 6k words. only problem is the interactive feature to jump to correct page/lesson. Maybe it will have to be a different system inside lingQ.
Most such gamebook are at intermediate/advanced levels, It would be unique if there is a huge series/course of Graded Game books from A1-B2.
To add, one easy way to add gamebook feature is to just give us a way to jump to any lesson from current lesson. currently we can only go next and previous as screencap below show.
I’d like a way to make my own 15 minute short stories using artificial intelligence and upload the audio and transcript to LingQ. I don’t know if this is possible.
There is a dearth of good content in German and English. With notebookLL you can create discussion like audio about various YouTube videos(topics are endless from politics, book reviews, science and what not). They are usually 10-20 minutes long but discussion like… Have them available as new courses for learners. This way it will save many of us from audio transcription restriction and creating our own content. Right now I am creating discussion like audio based on Easy German videos through notebookLL. But I know I am restricted by transcription limit monthly so if you can create your own content by using NotebookLL and have them available in the library, it will be great. Just an idea.
I don’t understand, is the idea just creating more feeds? I think anything can be imported and shared already, at the user’s discretion and within legal boundaries, except for images. They’d require OCR. Basic OCR would result into infinite complaints about fidelity and parsing. Advanced OCR would increase the processing requirement and ultimately lead to another Plus.
If anything I’d prefer more of a back-to-basics approach, LingQ being both a tool and a community of language learners inclined to getting vast amounts of input from mostly text-centered sources. I think it would be good if users could organize their own shelves, through something like folders or private personal-use tags. Regardless of what content, it will likely be thousands or even tens of thousands of lessons before reaching the user’s target, and sorting one’s own imports is as much of a challenge as finding imports from others. LingQ should offer the platform, maintain it and make the experience gentler and more stable, while giving power to the users to do beyond that, from importing to extensions. Even if images end up being supported in the form of OCR’d pdfs, it would be better if the users themselves were in charge of the word recognition process and importing.
Free Chat GPT will make the text and Lingq can make the audio. Try a variation of the prompt I have in my other post. I tried it for a while and tehn stopped as I had to keep making more of them. Paid ChatGPT (or others) might make longer stories.
Thanks. I will give it a go. I guess you just ask GPT to make up a story, copy and paste the transcript onto something like a Word document and import this into LingQ clicking “Import” and “Epub / File”?
Does LingQ then use it’s TTS voice to read out the story?
Course with lessons specifically designed for language exams.
For french there is DALF, DELF, TCF, TEF and from what i understand these tests don’t use literary tenses like passé simple which are common in novels.
So a course with lessons designed for such tests would be useful to those who need it. With a narrow focus (vocab, grammar usage) on just the important stuff for the exam.
The lesson content could be model answers from the exam written section.
Reading passages based on reading material found in exam reading section, same for listening and etc.
For speaking probably have to work with AI or human tutor. Or there could be lessons with recording of good error free conversation between examiner and test-taker.
Something that follows CLIL like structures from languages, so people can get the same exposure as a person who studied primarily in that target language. For example following an examination bodies curriculum.
So this is a whole new feature obviously, but one thing I love to do is listen to radio in my TL, would love if there were an easier way to count this toward my stats in LingQ. I’m not suggesting you should build in a radio feature (LingQ is already pretty bloated in my opinion), but a way to more easily register it as an activity would be great.
