I don’t know if this has been covered already, but I had posted this on Steve’s blog, and he said I should send it to the forums. I’m having difficulties with the following:
*Creating flashcards with phrases. When I select to highlight more than one word at a time, the last word of the phrase disappears from my screen. I don’t know what happens after that, as I tend to give up. I’m sticking with single words for now.
*Copying and pasting an entire sentence. LingQ puts the entire sentence into blue (deleting, I’m assuming, the last word of the sentence). This is not what I’d like to happen at all. I’d like to just copy and paste it to put it into the flashcard.
*Editing the flashcards. Related to copying and pasting, I have to manipulate the text on the screen in such a way that I can have the entire sentence in view while the flashcard is open. Then, I have to manually type the sentence into the flashcard. This is my work around to the problem, so all is not lost, but I don’t know if how it works currently is intuitive. I was hoping to be able to simply copy and paste the sentence to the flashcard, and then edit.
Some background that may or may not impact my situation: my account had been downgraded to the “free” status when I needed to upgrade my PayPal account with new information. It took me a couple of weeks to get to this. So, when I finally updated the information, and upgraded back to the Basic level, I opened a lesson to see that the entire body of text was now highlighted in blue, meaning I was going to have to go through it word by word to designate the majority of the words back to “Known.” I believe that prior to that, there might have been a handful, that I was going to create LingQs for, once having re-upgraded my account. I don’t know if this was a one-time thing, as that wasn’t the case for a new lesson, but I thought I’d bring this to your attention.
Other Thoughts: I have some expectations of how I think the flashcards should work, and I don’t know if this helps your design or not, but I’m trying to just outline my own thought process of what I’d expect, which is:
*Saving short phrases. Currently, I’m having little luck doing this, when I could to this before.
*Editing the saved words. There are times when a word might be reflexive, for example, or it might include a prefixe or suffixe, separate from the word in the actual sentence. I’d like to be able to edit the word itself to include these other parts to it appears in its infinitive in the flashcard.
That said, I think this product is amazing, and when I’ve got more time to devote to language learning, I will gladly upgrade to a higher level.
All for now. Apologies if this has been covered before.
Thanks much,
Katie