Enable linking back to the original source text for edited words in the word list
Hi Steve
First of all, I just wanted to sincerely thank you for Readlang - it's the end of my first week of proper use and it has already been hugely transformational for me in my language learning.
One thing I have struggled with, though, is keeping my words sorted - when I save a new word to my list, I then like to edit it to be in the infinitive form if it's a verb or the masculine form if it's an adjective - this really helps me when studying the new words. The problem is that that then un-links the word from its source text, meaning that the premium feature of studying words from specific texts is undermined. Is it possible to retain this tag, and keep the link after editing?
Again, thanks for a resource that has changed a lot for me.
Best,
Martin.
Thanks, I’ll investigate why the link appears to be broken after editing.
But really editing the words like this will make Readlang’s flashcards not function correctly, so I’d recommend to. After you’ve successfully remembered what the word is in English, the next time you see the flashcard it will ask you what it is in your target language, and will blank out the word from the example sentence. Except that if you’ve altered the word, it will not be blanked out, so you’ll see the conjugated form of the verb for example.
I actually LIKE the fact that it lets me learn conjugated forms of verbs in context. It lets me practise both vocabulary and grammar (the conjugation) at the same time.
Does this make sense?
What about putting the infinitive in the “alternatives” field of the flashcard instead, do you think that would work for you?
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Martin commented
Hi Steve
Thanks for the reply - I completely see what you're saying about the context sentence. I'll give a try to what you suggest (i.e. adding the infinitive in the alternatives field). I just gravitated toward vanilla-ifying the words, because I'm learning Russian, so have the cases and various declensions to deal with. The alternatives field, though, should be a good place to store a number of references like that.
Thanks!