I agree, I wish I could speak that well, too.  It's just a matter of time, though.

As for lingq...  Japanese is in 'beta' and missing some 'features', they say.  After playing with it for an hour, 'words' are separated by spaces or punctuation automatically...  Which totally fails on Japanese and you end up with 'words' that are several words long.  This also means that if you see the words elsewhere, they don't match and it doesn't know you know them already.  I'll probably continue to play with it, but I'm not confident in how much it'll help me yet.

Also, check out the language cross-training post.  That's...  wild.  I had been avoiding other languages, but now I think I might get working on one of the ones I had played with previously, but dropped in favor of being serious about Japanese.

It's not really like iknow.

Lingq has a lot of audio files with the text. You listen to the audio. Then read the text, highlight words you don't know and add them to your word list to use as flash cards later. A dictionary comes up and tells you what the word means or what others have entered for the word. This feature works great on European languages, but so-so on Japanese. You can always use your own dictionary. You also select the sentence that goes with your word so when you're reviewing, you also see the sentence where you first encountered the word. The sentence can also be displayed as a hint when reviewing.

So basically, read an article, pick out the words you know, study, click that you know everything in the article now. If the article had 400 unique words, then your vocabulary goes up by that much. It also adds listening hours to chart progress and activity.

It has issues with counting and identifying words in Japanese. You can still use it for listening and reading practice but it doesn't work as it's supposed to for all features and progress charts.

Last edited by PrettyKitty (2008 October 28, 12:38 pm)