LingoDeer DevLog (archived from June 13)
Hi all! Hope you’re doing well. In the spirit of community openness, we’ve decided to start publishing ~LingoDeer developer logs~ to keep you updated on all our improvements, big and small.
So here’s what we did in the first half of June:
– Increased usability of the SRS Flashcards:
a) audio replay in any display mode; adjustable audio speed & font size;
b) relevant unit look-up: click the information icon ⓘ in the top right corner of the flashcard to look up which unit a word/expression first appeared in;
c) you can now review flashcards marked as “New”, “Needs work”, “Good”, “Perfect”, and any combination thereof by checking the relevant boxes before you start your review;
– Added Practice mode to Words/Expressions Review so you can do your favorite types of exercises;
– Adjusted the difficulty of spelling exercises in Mandarin Chinese (we went from super-difficult to super-easy… and now it seems like we’ve finally found the middle ground!);
– Corrected some of the Tips and word & sentence translations for French, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Japanese courses (e.g., replacing some AmE terms that might sound confusing to the rest of the world);
– Localized Mandarin Chinese tips for Vietnamese speakers up to Unit 40;
– Got rid of the much-contested flag icon 🚩 in the Day Streak calendar (we’ll find a better way to mark your milestones later);
– Added the Share option 📤 to Day Streak (you can find it in the top right corner of the Day Streak calendar).
Currently working on:
– Dark mode for Malay, Indonesian, and Polish tips;
– Fixing the desktop/Android learning progress lag;
– Upgrading iOS Ul (hopefully we can get the beta out by the end of next week – wish us luck!).
✍ Thank you for all the feedback that made these changes possible! We’re looking forward to hearing your thoughts about these updates (and just your thoughts in general). Remember that you can always reach out to us by email at hi@lingodeer.com and support@lingodeer.com, via the Contact Us form in the app, or on r/lingodeer 🙂
Happy learning!
Dark mode is coming for Malay Indonesian and Polish, does that imply it should already be available for other languages? I can’t find the setting and it doesn’t follow the system setting for Spanish. Thank you! And thank you for this developer blog it’s a great idea.
I see the option for turning off animations, but I think it only disables end-of-level animations? I would really like to disable the sweeping motions and the tiles moving around as they’re paired.
Reason 1 is I’ve got a sightly special brain and these moving elements bother me a little. iPhones have a “reduce motion” accessibility option for a lot of such things, because it seems to be a bigger issue for some people.
Reason 2 is the real reason, which is I like to be able to click through the material quickly and it feels like a drag to have these pauses after I’ve acknowledged the last result, and I’m waiting for the next question. Just feels laggy and unnecessary. I appreciate the polish but I’d love the option to have the next question shown/play immediately.
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Can we have an option to have a widget? 😭
Where do you go to do it?😵💫
I like it, I learn speaking Korean
Super app
This app is the Best
LingoDeer is the most underrated app ever… buuuuut the BEST
this app is very nice and very help full
I just started learning and it’s much fun I recommend y’all to take notes if either of anyone are going to Korea or any other place!
I have a question, how often would i need to learn korean on lingo deer to actually understand and speak it fluently? And is anyone actually fluent in korean from learning it on this app?
I love it, but…..
Can we chat? 1
It’s good