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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 73 of 116 18 April 2012 at 1:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Here's the link. I know this sort of analyzers are also made for machine translation.
And as I've already started dreaming :)) Even Microsoft Word can tell you: "hey, that's a colloquial form there" or "you've used the wrong case, wtf" so an ideal tool for intensive reading should explain this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6941 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 74 of 116 18 April 2012 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Cool! I don't think the US version of MS Word can do Russian, unless one can buy additonal language modules.
I have to say that with the languages I've tried so far the biggest challenge when reading has been simply figuring out the meaning of various phrases and idioms, as opposed to single words. The dictionaries that help the most with that are the ones I end up using. The feature I find very helpful in an e-dictionary is the ability to search for a given phrase throughout all the entries. Edited by frenkeld on 18 April 2012 at 2:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Švejk Super Polyglot Newbie Canada lingq.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4604 days ago 29 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese Studies: Czech | Message 75 of 116 18 April 2012 at 7:09am | IP Logged | ||
That is the book. It is great, although in traditional characters unless it has been edited. A phenomenal resource. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Švejk Super Polyglot Newbie Canada lingq.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4604 days ago 29 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese Studies: Czech | Message 76 of 116 18 April 2012 at 7:15am | IP Logged | ||
I can assure you that my opinions will not be constrained by any established dogma at this forum, but will reflect my own views. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Wulfgar Senior Member United States Joined 4669 days ago 404 posts - 791 votes Speaks: English* | Message 77 of 116 18 April 2012 at 8:39am | IP Logged | ||
Steve, I don't think we're going to agree to anything more here. I've said my piece. I will continue to use your excellent product. Thanks for creating it, and thanks for your participation in this thread. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4989 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 78 of 116 18 April 2012 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was about to write the same thing, Wulfgar.
Normally, authors don't drop in (edit) and respond to reviews, when readers rate their books on Amazon for example. I don't know if it is helpful, when Steve starts a defending-LingQ-campaign in a thread, which is expected to be neutral. Believe me, it is nothing personal (I've read "The Linguist on Language" and I enjoyed it. I used LingQ for some time, and found the idea great.)! I found a very extensive and positive LingQ-review by Benny. In my opinion, it is a fair review, and worth reading. (Link) Edited by Mae on 21 April 2012 at 4:07pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 79 of 116 18 April 2012 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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That review by Benny is at least 2 years old, and based on posts he made in the LingQ forum (he's idragon there), I don't think he likes LingQ that much anymore. He did use it when he was learning German, but I don't think he's used it for awhile.
If Benny's reading this thread, he can give his own thoughts on LingQ and I won't put words in his mouth. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Švejk Super Polyglot Newbie Canada lingq.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4604 days ago 29 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Japanese, French, Cantonese, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese Studies: Czech | Message 80 of 116 18 April 2012 at 4:04pm | IP Logged | ||
If my participation here is considered barging in, then I will stop commenting. You cannot have a "neutral " thread, you can only have an open and free thread, where people express their opinions, or provide information supporting different points of view. I felt that there were a number of inaccurate statements made about LingQ. I provided a different perspective and different information. I sense that free discussion is not all that welcome on this forum. I am sorry if I disturbed the cozy sense of community here and will leave. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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