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Hadn’t heard of LingQ til now, this seems really good.

• emsy 5y ago
  The founder (Steve Kauffmann) is a polyglot with a youtube channel where he talks about effective strategies for learning languages, sometimes even in other languages. I can’t recommend it enough.
• personlurking 5y ago
  It does seem good, til you compare price ($8-40/mo) with its limited use cases.
  • emsy 5y ago
    What do you mean by limited use case?
    • personlurking 5y ago
      When I used the free trial, the main activity was centered around pasting text from other sources/sites, then marking the words you recognize. To me that's not worth $8/mo, much less $40 at the Premium Plus level. I realize there are a few other features to LingQ but the cost-benefit of the lowest tier didn't make sense to me. I have free dictionary apps that remember every word that is looked up. I'd rather input those lists into a spaced repetition app and receive essentially the same benefit without paying.
      • emsy 5y ago
        They have tons of audio/text content with translations, but it's really hard to find. I think the UI is the worst part of Lingq.
      • zvr 5y ago
        > I have free dictionary apps that remember every word that is looked up. Care to provide any reference for these?