Lingq Reviews 20

I was a lingq user for a couple of years and it used to be a great program until they went all in with AI. Now it's become a huge collection of incomprehensible input. The AI interpretation and translations for Japanese and Polish are unusable. And from what I read in their forums this is a common problem with other languages also. 'Technical Support' seems to be one guy making nasty comments to people who dare to complain about all the issues. Lingq WAS a good app, and it could have become a great app but they chose to continue poorly implementing 'updates' instead of fixing consistent issues.

The app does not translate the full sentence within the vocabulary section or offer you the option . Which would be helpful when you are just starting out in a entirely new language. So you end up remembering words but not how to make words add up to a sentence . If you don't have a language buddy or other ways in which you are learning your language . You could find you are still on the starting block weeks in . Like many other language apps on the market it teaches you how to be good at games not how to get it all to sink in and help a person to start being able to converse .
An arrogant app I spend about an hour a day practising but I still get aggressive reminders through my email Berating me for not practising hard enough or being lazy. Like most adults I can not spend 8 hours a day learning languages , I guess this app was designed for the people who created it and their kind like people who have a lot of free time to play golf and learn languages cause they made their money at a time when the economy was better.
Like others when I commented on the short falls of this app they were ignored . Yet I'm a paying customer .
There is also a poor selection of languages there is only one Indian language -Hindi and only one Celtic one Irish.
This is a fair app for languages that you have some basic grasp of but for new languages it is just like playing a game of patience with yourself .
Worse then delungo as you don't have a basic phrase tab or common words index. It is mainly just reading text and then getting tested on the words you highlight in the article . I learnt a lot of words but when I took out a lesson with a teacher of my target language. I struggled to even say a basic sentence but cold just tell them about all the words I know .

This is the very first website that rejects my email address. I must have used my email address on hundreds of websites and never had any problems with it. I am clearly not in their system yet, because if I try to change the password based on my email address, that also is not possible.

Each to her/his own, I know, but I feel these posts don't reflect my experience on Lingq so...
Lingq tells me that I am now up to 7000 known and successfully used words and phrases. In a fraction of the time I have spent paying for Clozemaster, Duolingo, Memrize and Kwiziq, on Lingq I am now rated as in B1 (by Kwiziq.) When I dip back into the previous sites I feel my rate of progress slow to snail pace in comparison. Apart from the vital interest level of selected items, I find the sentence-level review page (with related exercises/quizes) motivating and confidence-building. I should add that other than as a very satisfied customer, I have no other connection with Lingq.

I'll get straight to the point: The idea behind the website is great. But! There are website that do a 10X better job at it -- and they charge twice less money, have much better interface, and don't make you spend an hour trying to figure out how to cancel your subscription. Readlang seems to be the best alternative. If I had known about it before, never would have wasted my time with this.

While continuing to be impressed with Lingq, these negative comments made me reflect on how it is working for me and not for some others here. With Duolingo, Memrise and Kwiziq I try to memorise the content. For Lingq, You Tube guides advise choosing content well within your current ability level, with only a few unknown words, and then just read and listen. If you were in your target language country with native speakers, this is how the language would be assimilated. Get the drift, trust repetition for memorising, enjoy and move on. It's working like that for me so far. Lingq is not like other language learning methods. Good luck.

I bought one year access to LingQ for one year 2 days ago.
I thought, this is Steve Kaufmann's app, so it needs to be great and useful.
Unfortunately after using it just for 2 days, I saw a lot of mistakes and inappropriate translations.
Don't waste money on this.

I don’t know why the people are underestimating this tool, I find this tool the best tool I have found for language learning, gathering all translation capabilities and learning resources with ai powerful and monitoring your progress and linking your previous exposure by lingq all of this in one place all of this by 14 euro per month, it is really super helpful and time saving

Of course it is not for the lazy studying ,unless you have life time, but for intensive study for short term progress it is highly recommended

Of course there are drawbacks but for a start up that deals with all language complications, guys you did a great job

I used LingQ years ago and found it alright, but not excellent. Though there was plenty of content and I loved the methods. It was constantly just flash cards. Although those helped me a lot, the app didn’t offer that much.

Have revisited it in 2024 and it has improved a ton.

The way it has you review vocab isn’t boring flash cards, it has TTS enabled in a native, non-robotic sounding voice. It has a huge level of variety during reviews (which you can customise).. from simply listening and selecting what you heard, from showing full sentences that had the words that you chose so that you see them in context. It is so very engaging.

The content page it has is also brilliant, there’s plenty to engage in and you can simply tap a word to import to your list.

It’s hard to actually know what I’m talking about until you give it a try, but I’ve been resubscribed for 2 days and love it.

IMO it’s ideal for people who are at least intermediate in a language. At advanced level in my chosen language now I find I thrive with this platform.

One of the best features is how you can import any Netflix show, or any content online and then review it on Ling, and choose those words. Againyou’ll see those words constantly during reviews both alone and in context.

The app itself runs extremely smoothly on iOS, it always has, however currently it seems better than ever in that regard. I love how it’s always had dark theme.

It has many features I haven’t tried like audio lesson. It has even now integrated chatgpt for accurate translations.

The website though it’s very smooth, a major flaw is it’s nearly impossible to highlight multiple words at once for a phrase. Very easy on app.

I think it’s fairly priced also.

Cannot understand most of these reviews to be honest.
I’m an experienced linguist and certainly know what a poor quality platform looks like, this certainly isn’t it!

Very expensive for what it is, and the customer service is terrible if you highlight any problems. Their own community forums are full of people highlighting issues from a users prospective which are constantly met with variations on the same response "You are using our product wrong".

There are regular untested updates that are unannounced so user experience is frustrating and difficult to use.

I also have real issues with their repeated false advertising of discounts - suggesting a large % saving on the annual price that doesn't exist as they have calculated it in a misleading manner against a monthly price and not the regular annual price. This is illegal in the UK but obviously fine wherever they are legally based. Again a large number of posts in their forums about this but they refused to accept its misleading even though they are told multiple times that the price at the checkout didn't match the expectation of the customer.

Its a shame as its a great idea, but fundamentally poorly executed.

FRAUD! THE WORST EXPERIENCE OF MY LIFE.

Fradulent service. They charge you after your membership ends and they change the ending date on the website. I was charged three times before I recognized the fraud. I will probably not get a refund.

Terrible customer service. I've wanted to cancel my membership since March and have said frequent emails as I couldn't see any intuitive way to do this. All of my emails have been ignored and I've been charged another £90+.

The website is beyond terrible. It looks like someone started a cheap, free website, and then decided to add a ton of stuff to it. It is just amazingl badly done-it is terrible. The layout is such that you need to take a course how to use it before you can start-and it will not be a short course either. Finding lessons is touch, the interface for adding words is terrible, it is just an incredibly poor execution of a good idea-unacceptable for a paid service that is pricey. Given how the website is, the money spent is an absolute waste of time.

They ark on about how this is the best way to learn, it's a shame because the website is overly complicated and hard to know where to start and how to progress, it is just not intuitive for a great learning experience.