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When I edit a sentence and try to save it, it spins forever and doesn’t save. If I reload the lesson, it gives this message: “Lesson timestamps being generated. Thanks for your patience.” I feel these two things are related.
Anyway, Japanese is very hard to process on Lingq without being able to adjust word boundaries, so this issue is blocking.
Sorry to hear that. We will investigate the issue.
Works again now. At least for the one lesson I linked in the original post.
This might be a place where I can learn about the text editing I have been encountering the problem as highlighted in the captured image.
As can be seen, the .srt files are segmented into brief sections and when I want to highlight a useful phrase for studying, the word elision or something else in the program render this impossible since the sentence is unintelligible. What is the procedure for editing the input texts to make them useful for studying?
what do you mean by “reimport it”? Are you serious that editing within the program requires an additional word processing program and these many steps?
Why shouldn’t I be serious? SRT-files contain time stamps, which are usually placed between the individual text parts. The SRT text is therefore fragmented in itself. LingQ splits the text at these time stamps during import. If you don’t want this, you have to remove the time stamps and anything else you don’t want. This can all be done within LingQ if you have created the lesson yourself. However, it is quicker and easier to use external editors, which are naturally more specialized.
It only takes minutes to generate content for hours in this way.
Or you can use Rooster’s tools. This is also very convenient.
But I just realized that 1. does not work. Marking phrases across pragraph boundaries does not work. So you have to edit the SRT file.
Back to my initial question: what do you mean by reimport?
I don’t know what you import and how. In general, you can edit self-imported lessons as follows:
Open the lesson in your browser, “Edit Lesson”, bottom left “Regenerate Lesson”. Now you can edit or even delet the text on the right side an replace it with one edited with the external editor.
If you have a seperate mp3 you can then generate new timestamps. Then you have a “re-import”.
Better: take a seperate mp3, download the srt, edit, then create a new lesson with these two files.
