In that sense, LingQ is fully functional for European languages. Japanese is still in work. I haven’t tried to use it for a little while, so correct me if I’m wrong Steve. This is not meant as criticism; I’m just pointing out some things that are still in work. Regarding the items above: 1) article difficulty level isn’t rated very clearly, and there is a lack of easy material 2) because the workbench can’t accurately tell how words are separated, the pop-up dictionary is sometimes fooled. It doesn’t use the best Japanese dictionary 6) highlighting and listing doesn’t work.

In addition to this, it would be nice to have English translations of the articles. It would also be nice to have spaced-repetition with the flashcards. I think these are in the works (for all languages), but I could be wrong.

I will use LingQ when it gets fixed. For now, I find an article at my own level with audio and an English translation. I use Wakan pop up dictionary, and export words to my SRS.

A fully functional LingQ would be better than my current method because a) the material will be easier to find b) the LingQ pop up dictionary word look up is a much faster way to get words into an SRS than Wakan look up and export c) having unknown words highlighted is useful d) I really enjoy keeping track of the number of words I know.

My dream tool for Japanese would be Anki+LingQ+Wakan. By that I mean have the Anki flashcard program, with LingQ built in. Words looked up in LingQ will feed directly into Anki. The pop up dictionary used by LingQ would be Wakan, which can separate words correctly, and uses the best online Japanese-English dictionary.

As a suggestion, you might want to add a url field so that users can indicate where the content originally came from.

We are working on improving the navigation and the speed of the site.

We will introduce ratings for content and other enhancements. At present content can be sorted based on the vocabulary level of each user which ensures that it is at the right level of difficulty.

There is a lot to the site, and it is difficult to explain in a few words. That is no doubt a disadvantage to the site as it may discourage the less adventurous learner. We need to improve and simplify. But there is a lot there in a variety of languages, and the basic content and functionality is free.

Most of our content is contributed by members or is from sources that allow us to use their content. We ask content providers to provide acknowledgment and to not use material that is under copyright without permission. Users can and do import copyrighted content for their own use which they do not normally share. Where there are copyright issues we simply take the offending material down when it is brought to our attention.

The site works best for European languages and we hope to have it working equally well for Asian languages within a few months.