Hello. I started using the LingQ app a few months ago and I love it. My main activity is doing the stories in order, using the sentence mode. I listen to the sentence, read it, try to reason what it could mean and then click on “Translate sentence”, so that I can test myself and see which words I got wrong or were new to me. But today the “Translate sentence” button was gone. I looked around and I found a “Translate sentence” option in a menu, but now it appears under every sentence, whereas I would like to first test myself and see how much I can understand of the sentence. I imagine this might be because of an update in application design, because the words underneath the sentence were also gone and after I found them in a menu and turned them on, they are now scrolling horizontally (before, they were scrolling vertically). I can try to abstain from looking at the translation under every sentence, but I would like the button to come back, because it was an easy way to show/hide the translation, as needed. I want to say this is not a complaint, I love the app and will continue using it; I can adapt to it if I need to, I’m just explaining how useful the (now missing) Translate Sentence button was for me. Thank you.
Are you using iOS or Android app? What app version are you on?
I’ve been using LingQ for about 18 months, and in a very similar way. I only use sentence mode as all the other modes and features were too awkward or unreliable. A couple of days ago I got a major update to the Android app and now the optional whole sentence translation has gone.
Also, my 500+ day streak was lost despite me completing my daily target. Today I found a way to pay to repair my streak, but I shouldn’t have needed to. I emailed support but no reply as yet. Perhaps they are getting a lot of requests at the moment.
It’s really frustrating - I just need the basics to work reliably.
I am using Android. The App version is 7.0.26.
Thanks guys, I checked this with our Android developers, and got confirmation that the Transkate Sentence button will be added back in the next app version.
@andrew103 Regarding the broken streak issue, I am trying to figure out what exactly caused it, since your account shows that you didn’t reach daily goal on the mentioned day. I sent some follow up questions in my email reply.
The translate sentence button is now added back. Please update the app to the latest version.
I take care to check I’ve met my daily target every time. I have gone through phases of taking screenshots of the target-met notification when there were previous bugs in this function, but I’m not prepared to do it constantly. If I received a target-met notification, carried on through more lessons and took some action that reduced my score and didn’t get a corresponding alert that I was now short, that might explain it. I usually stop as soon as I’ve met the target just to avoid this issue, but sometimes I want to carry on and finish a lesson.