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New Updates

Well, after a few hiccups we did manage to update the site with our recent changes. Nothing major but a lot of bugs and nagging issues were resolved.

First of all, many of you (and especially Edwin! :-)) will be happy to see the New Words percentage has been restored to the Lessons page. It is as good as ever and the page loads much faster than it did when we showed this statistic before.

Also, additional activities have been added to the Friends' Activities list. Now you can see which lessons your friends are studying and you will be alerted every time they pass a thousand word milestone ie. at 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 words etc... You will also see the language in brackets beside the lessons they are studying and the conversations they have created. Be patient as this will only start working for new activities they perform.

As well:

• the Status filters on the Vocabulary page now default to Status 1-4 not 1-3 as they did before.
• The tutor filter is remembered when paging the Conversations list.
• LingQs can be created that contain numbers.

LingQ down temporarily

Sorry, everyone! We thought we were just shutting LingQ down temporarily for a quick update but an unexpected issue has arisen that is taking a few minutes to resolve. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to have the site back up shortly.

Save phrases and use Google translate

I like to save phrases. This is especially true when I working on a language where I know many of the words but am not so good at using the language.

I highlight many phrases and save them.Then I usually use google translate to give me an English translation. I often know the meaning but it is easier to just copy from google translate. Then I have an English translation to use in the flash cards, especially when I do the reverse flash cards, from English to the target language.

Check your examples

Brain research tells us that we learn better from examples than from theories and explanations. For a while the Examples feature in the LingQ widget was a little slow. It has been sped up. I suggest you look for examples of your saved words in use, when you are reviewing your saved LingQs.

A brief summary of the community

Here is a video that touches on some aspects of the community.Download JingCommunityEnglish

A brief summary of LingQing

Here is the Jing video on LingQing. I wonder if I should be the one to do various language versions or whether our members could do them in their native languages. After all every one uses these in slightly different ways.Download JingLingQEnglish

A brief summary of the Lessons page

Please view this short video on the Lessons page and tell me what you think. What more should I say? When I have this right I will do it in other languages.Download JingLessonsEnglish

A brief summary of how to find courses

Here is another short video on courses. Please send me your comments.Download JingCoursesEnglish

Tips on how to use the Vocab section

The vocabulary page at LingQ is a great place to work on vocabulary. We are continuing to refine and improve it. This is where all the LingQs that are saved when reading end up.

You can see a short video on using the Vocabulary page here at the LingQCentral blog.

Maintenance Shutdown March 6

We are going to be shutting the site down in approximately 30 minutes time at 4:30pm Pacific Time (GMT-8) for maintenance. We are upgrading the Vocabulary search and a complete shutdown is a mandatory step. The site should only be down for 15 minutes. You can check here for updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.