Hi everybody. Is anyone else seeing a banner on the main page with their year in review stats?
I got a couple of indications that I’m in the top 2% and 3% of language learners on the languages I’m studying on this site. Are they just buttering me up to keep me motivated? Are you guys getting similar messages?
If I did just the tiniest little bit in a language, LingQ counted me as a language learner (apparently not even one learned word needed). For example, according to LingQ I have ‘studied’ 19 languages in 2024 
Therefore, we can assume that a significant percentage of the language learners (in the LingQ statistics) did very little and those who practiced it regularly deserve to be somewhere in the top few percent in various statistics.
Interesting, I was about to post the same. I’m in the top 2% for German, and top 1% for French.
I assumed others here were far more industrious than me on LingQ as I do an hour of French outside LingQ. Or maybe you’re just a bunch of Faulpelze.
It would be interesting to see usage stats such as how many users are active on an average day, how many days users remain active before drifting away, and a distribution for the time spent each day.
For the last 4 months I took a break from my German studies because I was making a move to the USA permanently. For the last 4 years I studied German every single day but not at all in the last few months . I may continue German from the next year perhaps more so in the maintenance mode. I do not need German for meeting my immediate needs. However, I am going to focus on English mainly and will be adding Spanish as an add on. This is another language I am getting passive exposure while dealing with Spanish speakers regularly. Im based in Dallas.
I do not know when I will visit Germany again but the USA is my permanent home now since I can not live for more than 6 months outside and to maintain my residence status(PR) I have to be here for the most part. English and Spanish will be my primary languages to focus on in the next year. Obviously, it depends a lot on how much time I can squeeze in for language studies.
These are the stats of 2024:
359 days are surely 1% haha.
I hope LingQ included the “active users” only to the population for the stats. I’m not sure 1%'s on my stat is real or not :o
Good point, if they include all users that would skew the stats. For every serious user there must be at least ten who sign up and try a few lessons, and then stop never to return again.
I’ve met plenty of people who start a language course only to give up after a few months.
Some interesting stats and my feedback on them:
Since I began my Spanish from scratch, during the first weeks my first LingQs were just copies of other persons translations. However, within a few weeks I realized that the quality of these vary hugely and might even include completely misleading translations. Thereafter, I stuck to reading the dictionaries and properly writing my own LingQs. And if my online and hard copy dictionaries (now 6 of them) do not contain the word, I prefer to leave it blue. I have also taken time to clean the early LingQs and have tried to fill-in the gaps of automatic blue-to-ready conversions.
I have also noticed that some of the (auto-generated) texts have errors in them, especially regarding accents. This applies both to the ready materials in LingQ as well as to some imports from Youtube. Fortunately I was able to find the “Edit sentence” feature for correcting the (mainly) accent errors. Before this it was a bit confusing to encounter parallel versions of words, especially because the Vocabulary search is accent sensitive.
Considering that I started in July, the following stat is misleading. This is due to some of the ready courses having an incorrect 100h audio duration:
This is the reason I chose LingQ as my learning tool: the ability to import materials from external sources. E.g. I am a subscriber of El Día and this a way to sufficiently verse myself with my choice of vocabulary and dialects:
The following picture depicts both the strongest asset but also worse short-coming of LingQ. I really like the ability to import lessons in addition to the ready ones provided by LingQ. However, apart from the nine or so accidental closures of lessons, I really do not dare to check a lesson as ready, because then all the possibly remaining or unnoticed blue words would skew awfully my stats, Additionally, to keep the learning at a compelling level, I prefer to jump back and forth between lessons purely on a daily mood basis instead of trying to progress through lessons in a linear fashion. That would be plain boring and force me to seek other learning means.
The following figure “1873” of Known Words bothers me.
If I filter my LingQ vocabulary, it contains 523 “known” LingQs plus 1599 “learned” LingQs, i.e. a total 2122. Does this mean that somehere there are 1300+ known words lost and not visible in the vocabulary due to the really unexpected automatic features of handling blue words? After realizing what was happening, I turned the following off and spent a week in chasing the lost words. It is really unfortunate that these disappear under the hood.
Is there a way to look up the year review?I didnt get any banners…
i bet anyone who has read at least 100k words in a year would be high up. Im betting many users don’t use lingQ a ton. I was in the top 1% of Japanese but i read 2 million words in a year so i guess i believe it
Ok I like the Year in Review, but can we get an option to hide it? It takes up like a third of the screen on Android, plus it’s already been there like three weeks now?
