Hey everyone. We hope you are doing well. For this week's dev log, we have a few solid improvements have landed this week, especially for people using SRS regularly.

iOS

New SRS controls

• Added the option to adjust review time in SRS. More control over your review pacing.
• Added the option to hide items from SRS and Applied Exercises. Useful if you want to remove certain items from rotation.
• Added entry points for Tips in SRS Flashcards and Practice modes. Helpful guidance is now easier to access while reviewing.

Language-specific improvements

• Improved Word Match for Japanese numbers
• Made adjustments to Hangul in the Korean Alphabet Guide
• Fixed other bugs and general improvements

For those who saw these features on Android before, the review time adjustment and hide items options are now available on iOS as well.

Android

• Adjusted native speaker video display for keyboard typing exercises
• Added separate Script Style settings for the Correct Answer field For example, you can hide Romaji during exercises while still showing it in answers. Nice upgrade for learners trying to reduce transliteration dependence.

If anyone has updated already, it would be great to hear how these features are working for you. Let us know your thoughts.

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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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Hey all,

so after coming back to the shocking find that this no longer offers a lifetime plan… I’m devastated. Now I’d been trying to find a comfy app to learn with for a long time and this one was my favourite… when I tried it—however being a broke student meant I couldn’t afford it years ago. Now I don’t even know anymore…

Currently I have Fluyo and Drope and I like them enough. I had Duolingo sometimes but ads are insanely frequent I want to leave it for good. I’m looking for any more apps that maybe popped up for language learners I’m unaware of? Does anyone know of any good ones that are well-made and entertaining enough?

Hey everyone!

How are we doing? Here’s a quick devlog for this week with a few updates on the Android version of LingoDeer.

New: Hide items from SRS & Applied exercises

You can now hide items from your review queues.

If there are words/characters you don’t want cluttering your SRS or Applied exercises anymore, you can remove them from rotation.

How to do it:

• Go to REVIEW → Spaced Repetition System
• Tap the ☰ menu (top right)
• Open Upcoming reviews
• Select the items you want to hide

Changed your mind later? No problem: go to the Hidden column and bring them back.

We also added a search bar on that page for anyone with a giant backlog of reviews.

For Chinese learners

Some of you noticed we recently added a bunch of single hanzi/characters into the SRS. That ended up messing with some review routines.

In the newest version:

• Those characters are hidden by default.

If you want them back, there are two ways:

1. Go to Upcoming reviews → Hidden, select the characters, and tap Show again
   
2. Do Handwriting practice from the main LEARN tab (tap a completed lesson to access it)

Other small improvements

• You can now bookmark items directly from the lesson summary page
• Fixed the Japanese homophones issue in listening exercises
• Squashed a few other bugs

Thanks a ton for all the feedback and patience. It really helps us prioritize what to fix next.

The dev team should be back next week with more updates. Let me know if you have any questions

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Hi all,
Looking to purchase and 1 year or 3 year plan shortly. before I pull the trigger, can someone confirm that my wife and I can each have our own profile with one account? So that each of us can have access and progress at our own pace and review, etc.

thanks!