What is LingQ all about? A brief introduction.

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Hi, I'm Steve, founder of LingQ and I've learned 10 languages the LingQ way.

At LingQ, we don't teach you a language. Nobody can teach you. You have to learn yourself...with help of course.
Let's say you want to learn Spanish. You'll begin with a lesson from the Spanish library.
As you read the lesson, you come across words you don't know. These words are highlighted in blue. If you hover on a blue word, you see 3 possible meanings or "hints" for this word. Select one of these hints, or click New Hint to search a dictionary and add your own hint.
Great! You have just created a LingQ! You can see that the blue word has now turned yellow. And will show up yellow in all future texts.

To learn Spanish, or any other language, you need to create lots and lots of LingQs. Don't just LingQ unknown words, LingQ all words you're unsure of. You can't create too many LingQs!
Review your LingQs using flashcards, cloze tests or our iPhone App. And, of course, in any lesson, review your yellow LingQs just by hovering on them.

Download your lessons to your mp3 player and listen many times. Listening is key. Listen on
your way to work. Listen while exercising or washing dishes. Try and listen every day. This process of listening and reading while reviewing new vocabulary will really help you become fluent. When you're ready, move on to a new lesson. That's it. It's that simple.

If you have any questions, ask for help on the community. Soon you'll want to submit writing and have conversations with tutors. Before you know it you'll be speaking Spanish! Good luck!

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• language learning online
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[PakFAN]

Hi Ste my name is Aslam Ali and I am writing this post to ask you what is the best method to learn how to speak a foreign language. I currently can only speak English fluently but would like to learn another language. I know how to speak Punjabi aswell as my mother cannot speak english. However even though I have heard Punjabi all my life and can understand the dialect my mother speaks which is called potwari and can only speak a level 4/10 to 5/10 in fluency. How can i improve.

[lingosteve]

@PakFAN Just follow all the advice here at my channel.

[lingosteve]

@silent0watcher You must be quite unusual if you think that Canadian government approval means something when it come to language learner.

LingQ was developed based on my experience in learning languages as explained in my book. LingQ just takes advantage of modern technology. People can try it or ignore it. I just wanted to explain what it is.

The only languages that i learned in the countries where the language was spoken are French and Japanese. Even there I relied mostly on input.

[kalacz]

Really good presentation,  if I wouldn't be a user of LingQ already, after this advertisement I would defenitly start using it !!!

[ZaifoTube]

What about grammatical structures?

[lingosteve]

@DifferentdimenSion1 The learning resources are free. Some functions and services cost money. It is all clearly spelled out on the site.

[lingosteve]

@DifferentdimenSion1 You can access all the resources and start adding words and phrases to your database. When you reach 100 words in your database you have to decide whether to continue adding to your database, or delete words to remain under 100, or stop saving words and just use the audio and texts without saving words.

[lingosteve]

@DifferentdimenSion1 You can access all the resources and start adding words and phrases to your database. When you reach 100 words in your database you have to decide whether to continue adding to your database, or delete words to remain under 100, or stop saving words and just use the audio and texts without saving words. Tutor services also require payment.

[DifferentdimenSion1]

@lingosteve I haven't understood how it works and when you sign up it's free but after? I hope you 'll answer thank you

[ronironiism]

I love LINGQ! :]

[mashpotatobunny]

This looks awesome! I need to brush up on my Korean so this seems perfect. Can't wait to try it out :D

[lingosteve]

@silent0watcher LingQ was designed based on how I learn languages so that statement is actually quite true.Who has suggested anything about approval by the Canadian government ?