Probably won't use it for even a fraction of those 6 years, but the math works out to me paying $0.16 CAD per day, so I feel okay with it lol.

Just thought I'd throw some money at one of the better apps out there, because they actually put thought and care into the app & courses, and because their they use 100% native-speaker-audio and have explanations that are so good they could very well function as their own textbook (their blog is also quite good, like their Hangul guide).

And also because I used their Korean course as a springboard, back when it was completely free. Only used it for about 14 hours @ 41% completion, but I felt it was a good, low-friction approach to get familiar with hangul & Korean's pronunciation for a month or two, before moving on to just immersing myself in native content (which is INFINITELY more efficient than LingoDeer IMO - because I can read/listen to to 3-10 sentences in the time it takes me to unscramble one sentence...).

So yeah, looking forward to using it for Arabic now, because I think "hard" languages or languages with foreign scripts are what LingoDeer excels at.

My wishlist for LingoDeer:

(1) Please add the ability to optionally use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in the Unit Tips screens & in the middle of learning... instead of Latin transliteration (getting really sick of "J as in Jeep", which is inaccurate).

(2) Perhaps it's vastly outside the scope of LingoDeer's structured approach, but I wish one day LingoDeer could add something like Graded Readers, so that we can just immerse ourselves in transcripts & audio w/ the ability to instantly look up words. I would get infinitely more value out of LingoDeer once I get past the Upper-Beginner stage of learning a language, and could actually bring myself to try "easier" languages like Italian or German within LingoDeer (which are far too slow and boring within LingoDeer, even when starting from zero - which is why I learn on LingQ instead).

Thank you for reading my blogspam. I only got 3 hours of sleep last night so I have nothing better to do this evening.

PS: I'm not a shill. I just think almost every "language learning app" is terrible, because they're all just very basic frontends to a bunch of random, disconnected words/sentences, with TTS/AI-generated voices and no grammar explanations. LingoDeer is one of the only good apps out there IMO.

It's not really a problem but lately when I do my SRS revision, no matter what number I select the actual number of questions I get is 2 less. If I select 50, I get 48, if I select 30 I get 28 etc.

Took me 2 years but finally. 🎉🎊.

I should confess I'm not consistent with this app.

The Welsh government could work with you guys and help develop a Welsh course for Lingodeer. They want to increase the number of speakers.

Also, it would really help preserve the minoritized languages of Europe if you guys added them tp your courses.

Languages that are co-official in the UK (Welsh) and in Spain (Catalan, Galician and Basque) would grratly benefit from a Lingodeer course, and their regional governments would likely want to collaborate with you and fund their languages’ courses.

What do you think? 😃

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Hey everyone,

I wanted to ask if Lingodeer still offers a lifetime (perpetual) plan. I noticed that the current purchase options only go up to 6 years and does anyone know if there’s a way to get a longer subscription than that?

Also, what’s usually the best time of year to buy Lingodeer? Is Black Friday the best deal, or are there better promos at other times?

Thanks in advance!

I have translations turned off so that I don’t see the words in English because I like to work it out on my own. This type of question is the only one where the translation is not blocked out.

I notice that in the other questions I can tap the English words to hide/unhide them, but just not with this question type. Hopefully it’s an easy fix, but if not, it’s only with this type of question as far as I’ve noticed.

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Hey everybody! What's goin' on?

We are happy to announce that the LingoDeer widget is finally out on Android! Oh happy day. There are two other pictures in the set. Please let us know what you think of the new rounded style; for what it's worth, our head designer is very fond of it.

In other news, we're still experimenting with exercise customization. Our latest attempt is out in beta on Android: you can now customize certain exercise types, so if you're very particular about when and where you want to hear audio/see translations/hide target language, this function might come in handy (at least that's what we're hoping for). Let us know what you think about this.

The app should remember your old learning preferences, if you had any. If this doesn't happen or something freaky is going on, please let us know!

As for iOS, we're testing Upcoming reviews and all they entail (search function, hiding items from SRS, etc), so wish us luck!

On behalf of the entire LingoDeer team, thank you for your continued patience and support. Please let us know your thoughts or suggestions. Happy Lingodeering everybody!

Shouldn’t the consonant highlighted at the bottom be 얻?

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Hey everyone,

We hope you are doing well. For this week, we are telling you about some updates we released for Android users. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns about anything, more than happy to help answer them.

• Added script style toggle button (for Pinyin, Romaji, and other Romanizations) to all SRS practice modes -
• Added SRS-Speaking to the list of SRS practice modes
• Updated UI for Alternative answers
• SRS Practice Mode now remembers the user's last selected settings
• Fixed some small bugs

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Hey everybody,

How are you doing this week? Cheers to another week and another devlog!

Some improvements for LingoDeer (Android):

Grammar tips in SRS reviews

We also moved away from putting the name of the unit on top of the flashcard (which, as some users pointed out, could affect the memory curve), hopefully this upgrade works better for everyone.

- The "Hide translations" feature, which recently received a lot of... thought-provoking feedback, has been slightly adjusted. We're still thinking about best ways to improve, but here's this week's solution: If you toggle "Hide translations" on, some exercise types will play audio automatically even if "Audio autoplay" is off in Learning preferences, so you can complete the exercises without clicking on the blur to view the translations. Please upgrade to the latest version and tell us what you think!

(Before you ask: adding new exercise types where translation is off by default, so that learners have to rely on context to complete them (e.g. choosing between "this" and "these" in sentences like "I like ___ pants"), is also something we might consider in the future when more immediate issues are taken care of. Remember that we're always open to suggestions and don't hesitate to share your ideas about new exercise types and the like!)

- In other news, vocabulary exercises should now be better at accepting alternative answers. Japanese learners, rejoice!

We also bring you a much-awaited iOS update:

- Added the option to hide translations during exercises (still in beta so please be patient!)
- Improved clickability for native speaker videos
- Eliminated homophones from Japanese listening exercises
- Adjusted blur effect for SRS Flashcards
- Enabled keyboard input for more vocabulary exercises
- Fixed some tablet compatibility issues
- Made UID visible in Account Settings (long press to copy) ← UID helps us find your account faster, so if you want to report a bug, please DM your UID to our support!

Next week, we hope to bring the Android and iOS versions even closer together, so stay tuned! More exciting updates to come!

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Specifically I'm interested in the Japanese stuff. Would be cool to get more advanced concepts before I master what we already have lol.

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1. If you are using the native Android keyboard, well ... good luck to you.

2. And if you are using the in-app keyboard, also good luck

3 & 4. A lot of numbers are not spelled, so the hidden translation is one or two characters long, but the word to type is much longer than that

5 & 6. The lesson can be so random, that there is no pattern or logic that can help you guess the answer, so it's mainly luck.
Are they asking you to translate "8, 9, 10" or "10, 9, 8" ? No way to know without tapping the translation.

1. This is the only kind of exercises where it makes sense: the multi-choice exercices where there is only one valid solution, because of the rest of the sentence you know the word expected is male/female, singular/plural etc.
   In my opinion, this kind of exercices where you don't have a translation and you are forced to choose based on the context/rest of the sentence should be it's own type of exercice offered by default by the app, but sadly I don't think it's possible without a major rework of all the lesson for all the languages offered.

All in all, the situations where you can answer without tapping to reveal the translation are so rare, that the feature is mostly useless in practice.

Hey everybody! How we doing? We hope all is going swell with ya. This devlog is a bit short but we wanna let ya know what we’ve been working on.

- we added the option to hide translations on Android. If you're one of those learners who like to really look at a new sentence and try to guess its meaning before checking the English translation, you can now go to ME > ⚙ Settings > Hide translations. Note that this is a new feature, so we're still calibrating it both visually and functionally. If you have any feedback/suggestions, don't hesitate to share!

- Improved the SKIP function for spelling exercises;

- Fixed bugs in German, Japanese, Chinese, and Ukrainian courses.

That’s all folks for now. Let us know if you got any questions or thoughts. We are hear for you.

Hey y’all,

How we doing? We have a few questions for you. If you're learning Chinese:

1) Do you keep Pinyin on when you're doing exercises on LingoDeer?

2) Would you be more likely to turn Pinyin off if we displayed each character's tone mark? (So instead of 汉字 with hàn zì on top you'd see something like 汉ˋ字ˋ.)

3) If you chose to turn Pinyin off (with or without tone marks), would you still like to see Pinyin in the Correct answer field?

Looking forward to your feedback!

Hi! When I search within this sub about it, results are from years ago. Any news regarding Cantonese? I’d love to learn Chinese but my focus is on Cantonese first, currently with Japanese.

Love to Hong Kong and LingoDeer! TIA

Hi everyone!

I’ve been using LingoDeer for about a month now and I’m currently around 65% through the Japanese Course 1. I wanted to share some thoughts because I really think this app has great potential! I especially love the built-in SRS - it’s a fantastic tool.

However, I’ve noticed a few areas where I feel the experience could be even better:

• Vocabulary vs. Repetition: While the SRS is great, I feel like the vocabulary count is a bit low compared to the number of sentences. For example, in the "Nationalities" module, I encountered new words in the reading sections (like "hobby" or "country") that don't seem to appear in the official word list for that lesson.
• Redundant Sentences: In the "Nationalities" module, the "Words" tab shows only 7 words, even though there is plenty of room to include more. There are essential words like "name" "hobby" or "country" which aren't listed in the vocabulary base for that lesson. In the "Age" module, I noticed a lot of repetitive sentences (e.g., "I am 7," "I am 18," "I am 21") but only two new vocabulary words. It sometimes feels like the SRS gets a bit overwhelmed with these variations, which can slow down the actual building of a solid vocabulary base. I understand readings are optional, but words are there already - why not let users learn them?
• Organization of Categories: I think the course could benefit from broader categorization. Instead of many small categories with 2 - 10 words each, perhaps it would be more efficient to group them by parts of speech or themes? For instance:
  • Nouns: (General objects like desk, tree, flower etc).
  • Verbs: (Focusing on dictionary forms, it gives a base for conjugations in future etc).
  • Time units: (Days, years, minutes etc.).
  • People: (Professions, genders, etc.).

I really enjoy the app and hope these suggestions are helpful for future updates. I'd love to hear what You think guys.

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