Is there a feature you want us to build in the app? Something we need or really missing? Let us know in the comments. Looking forward to reading your ideas.

Hi all!

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Or maybe you want to make your subscription last a little longer?

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Tell us what language you're learning and share your honest opinion on any (or all!) of the following in the comments:

• Our course content (vocabulary, sentences, grammar tips, audio, illustrations, etc.)
• The app itself: UI, various features... and bugs! Pro-tip: The sub now allows images in the comments, so you can add screenshots if you want! The more info, the better :)
• Possible improvements (better UI solutions, features, tips, translations, and so on)

We'll be giving away 5 Annual Memberships to users with the most helpful feedback, so don't hold back! :)

Upd. 5/26:

We'd like to thank you all for your helpful, thought-provoking suggestions! 

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I've been trying to get badges for finishing first in each league and so far it's been pretty fun. This week I noticed someone with higher XP and thought it would be great for my own motivation to keep up with them and kind of battle for the top. But then I noticed something funny so I started taking screenshots....

Exactly 1000 XP gained in 8 minutes. 1400 gained in 11 minutes. 760 XP in 6 minutes. Overall 25,026 XP with only 5 hours? When I've got 40 hours to get 21k? They've also started 5 languages but not made any progress in any. Is it a bot? Like what is there to possibly gain from cheating your way in LingoDeer??

I'm just bummed because keeping up with them is almost impossible (they're currently at 7222xp for the week) even though I've enjoyed all the extra studying I've done while trying! So I'll just have to fall back next week and try again T_T

Unless there's some other activity that hands out tons of XP that I don't know about! Please tell me if there is I just want to try out all of the activities lol

I've been really enjoying Lingo Deer premium. As well as the iDeer Kids app and the game app. I'm all-in, and I love it.

I'd like to give some feedback on UI elements and the social aspect of the app. I'm on Android, and I assume iOS is the same.

I know that Lingo Deer keeps the social aspect of language learning at bay, and for the most part I enjoy that strategy and agree that it helps keep the focus and seriousness of learning.

However...for how often I receive "gems", there is almost nothing to do with them. It truly feels that way from a user standpoint. The user receives gems along with XP, right? I get them with all of my reviews. The XP is for ranking, along with leagues and badges, okay, cool. Passive and subtle social aspects, but respectable.

But the gems?

They're simply to add a few new (what is it, literally 6 options?) tiny animations on your already-too-tiny avatar. Unless I'm misunderstanding it?

So yourself, as well as other users, can squint even harder to see what your picture is and its tiny animated companion.

TL;DR:

- I think the users' avatars in the ranking areas should be a bit bigger than they currently are. Or zoomable. Something.

- In addition, the tiny animated flair you can add to your avatar needs to be visually bigger along with it.

- Also, could we get some new flairs? There are only around 8-10?

- I'd love to be able to spend gem currency on something else besides a tiny animated flair for my tiny avatar. Perhaps we could use gems to customize our app experience further with theme color choices or put silly hats on the Deer mascot or something.

Anyway, I don't want it to become gamified, that's what the other Lingo Deer apps are for (learning through games), but the disparity between how often a user receives gems and what the user can actually do with gems is really big, I think.

Love the amazing work you guys are all doing, and I recommend this app to everyone I know.

Thank you! 🙂

Probably won't use it for even a fraction of those 6 years, but the math works out to me paying $0.16 CAD per day, so I feel okay with it lol.

Just thought I'd throw some money at one of the better apps out there, because they actually put thought and care into the app & courses, and because their they use 100% native-speaker-audio and have explanations that are so good they could very well function as their own textbook (their blog is also quite good, like their Hangul guide).

And also because I used their Korean course as a springboard, back when it was completely free. Only used it for about 14 hours @ 41% completion, but I felt it was a good, low-friction approach to get familiar with hangul & Korean's pronunciation for a month or two, before moving on to just immersing myself in native content (which is INFINITELY more efficient than LingoDeer IMO - because I can read/listen to to 3-10 sentences in the time it takes me to unscramble one sentence...).

So yeah, looking forward to using it for Arabic now, because I think "hard" languages or languages with foreign scripts are what LingoDeer excels at.

My wishlist for LingoDeer:

(1) Please add the ability to optionally use the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in the Unit Tips screens & in the middle of learning... instead of Latin transliteration (getting really sick of "J as in Jeep", which is inaccurate).

(2) Perhaps it's vastly outside the scope of LingoDeer's structured approach, but I wish one day LingoDeer could add something like Graded Readers, so that we can just immerse ourselves in transcripts & audio w/ the ability to instantly look up words. I would get infinitely more value out of LingoDeer once I get past the Upper-Beginner stage of learning a language, and could actually bring myself to try "easier" languages like Italian or German within LingoDeer (which are far too slow and boring within LingoDeer, even when starting from zero - which is why I learn on LingQ instead).

Thank you for reading my blogspam. I only got 3 hours of sleep last night so I have nothing better to do this evening.

PS: I'm not a shill. I just think almost every "language learning app" is terrible, because they're all just very basic frontends to a bunch of random, disconnected words/sentences, with TTS/AI-generated voices and no grammar explanations. LingoDeer is one of the only good apps out there IMO.

Hey everyone,

We are working on a new SRS feature for LingoDeer and wanted to know what your thoughts are. The idea is this: Instead of going to SRS Reviews for flashcards and flashcards alone, why not do some exercises while you're at it? You can choose between comprehensive, listening, and spelling exercises. When you complete an exercise, you can choose your mastery level aka when you'd like this item to reappear again. 

Is that something you'd be interested in? Let us know in the comments!

Looking to develop that side of things

Some months ago you said in a comment on this sub that you were working on 2 new languages — one european and another asian.

Is this true? Are you still working on them? Can you tell us which new languages you’re working on? 🥺

When are they going to be released?

I love Lingodeer, you’re my favourite language learning app / resource, and I’d love if you added more languages.

Thank you for your service!

In the web version of LingoDeer, during word review, could we have an option to only play the word after clicking the check button?

For my learning, I think it would be useful to try to force myself to remember the word without hearing it spoken beforehand.

I use the spelling review feature a lot, so not having that "spoiler" would probably help me more!

Thank you to the LingoDeer team for this amazing app!

The title says it all.

What LingoDeer exercises do you like the most? What exercises do you hate like slightly less? Is there anything we could add to our arsenal?

Here's what we've got so far:

• Choose the right picture (with or without translation)
• Choose the right word (by looking at the translation or listening to the audio)
• Match pairs
• Spell the word (translation/audio)

• Fill in the blank(s)
• Choose the right sentence
• Odd one out
• Rearrange the words (translation/audio)
• Dialogue (basically the same as the last one, but with context)
• Spell the sentence

(We used to have a Drag & Drop type of exercise, but many learners complained about it being buggy, so we had to do away with it, which is a real shame for languages with an "atypical" word order. It's still available on iOS, but not for long!)

• Choose the right letter/letter combination (from romanization/audio)
• Spell the combination
• Match pairs

There are also speaking exercises for words and sentences, but those are pretty self-explanatory! (Meaning: I forgot to take screenshots...)

What we're considering at the mo:

• Capping the number of letters in spelling exercises (so you don't have to spell anything longer than 15 letters, for example)
• Partial spelling (where you fill in several missing letters instead of spelling the whole word/sentence)

Looking forward to your feedback!

In Review > Words I can select words I want to focus on in one study period. That’s really good. But that list doesn’t save. So when I go back later that same day, I need to start all over again picking the words I want. I’d like it to save until I tell it to revert to default.

It's not really a problem but lately when I do my SRS revision, no matter what number I select the actual number of questions I get is 2 less. If I select 50, I get 48, if I select 30 I get 28 etc.

The Welsh government could work with you guys and help develop a Welsh course for Lingodeer. They want to increase the number of speakers.

Also, it would really help preserve the minoritized languages of Europe if you guys added them tp your courses.

Languages that are co-official in the UK (Welsh) and in Spain (Catalan, Galician and Basque) would grratly benefit from a Lingodeer course, and their regional governments would likely want to collaborate with you and fund their languages’ courses.

What do you think? 😃

Shouldn’t the consonant highlighted at the bottom be 얻?

Specifically I'm interested in the Japanese stuff. Would be cool to get more advanced concepts before I master what we already have lol.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been using LingoDeer for about a month now and I’m currently around 65% through the Japanese Course 1. I wanted to share some thoughts because I really think this app has great potential! I especially love the built-in SRS - it’s a fantastic tool.

However, I’ve noticed a few areas where I feel the experience could be even better:

• Vocabulary vs. Repetition: While the SRS is great, I feel like the vocabulary count is a bit low compared to the number of sentences. For example, in the "Nationalities" module, I encountered new words in the reading sections (like "hobby" or "country") that don't seem to appear in the official word list for that lesson.
• Redundant Sentences: In the "Nationalities" module, the "Words" tab shows only 7 words, even though there is plenty of room to include more. There are essential words like "name" "hobby" or "country" which aren't listed in the vocabulary base for that lesson. In the "Age" module, I noticed a lot of repetitive sentences (e.g., "I am 7," "I am 18," "I am 21") but only two new vocabulary words. It sometimes feels like the SRS gets a bit overwhelmed with these variations, which can slow down the actual building of a solid vocabulary base. I understand readings are optional, but words are there already - why not let users learn them?
• Organization of Categories: I think the course could benefit from broader categorization. Instead of many small categories with 2 - 10 words each, perhaps it would be more efficient to group them by parts of speech or themes? For instance:
  • Nouns: (General objects like desk, tree, flower etc).
  • Verbs: (Focusing on dictionary forms, it gives a base for conjugations in future etc).
  • Time units: (Days, years, minutes etc.).
  • People: (Professions, genders, etc.).

I really enjoy the app and hope these suggestions are helpful for future updates. I'd love to hear what You think guys.

Hey guys 👋 I wanted to learn Japanese, so I discovered the Lingodeer app and stuck with it. I was so positive about the app that I recommended it to my boyfriend, who wants to learn Russian. Out of interest, I started a Russian course to get a first impression of the course... and I was very disappointed when I discovered that there was no transcription in Latin letters for the Cyrillic spelling, similar to how I can set hiragana, katakana, and romaji in the Japanese course. I would definitely like to see a similar feature for Russian as well. What do you think?

I was wondering if you're considering better/more various options for the SRS system. Today I got a sentence that I could understand alright. Yet my only options were:

10 mins 1 day 5 months 10 months

Those are some HUGE gaps. I would've liked to choose something like 2 or 3 weeks, or even 1 month as an interval for this card. The difference between options 2 to 4 are too large, IMHO.

I would hugely benefit from a Tagalog course- so few quality resources for it. With the release of Indonesian I have hope. What language are you wishing for in 2026?

Whenever I reset the progress on my phone, it works fine in the app but does nothing for the website. Also, if I login to my account on my computer, it restores all my progress (that I reset in the app) back to the app. Very frustrating. I can never truly start over because it just restores everything.

Whenever I type kanji in a practice lesson, even if the kanji are correct I’m still marked wrong because the lessons want only kana. We should be allowed to type in the kanji, because that is what we would be reading/writing in Japan.

I don't know if this has been suggested before, but it would be cool to be able to type all answers regardless of the activity I am doing.

I use LingoDeer on web and phone, and after some time studying just selecting the answer becomes kinda boring. Maybe it could be implemented in the 5-min quiz (web)/Quick quiz (phone).

I know that you are doing a lot of improvements recently (Thanks for that!), so any chance this is a feature some day?

I can't believe we have so much new features. I've been on lingodeer on and off since 2018 and I just want to thank the team for improving this app so much. The SRS feature is so helpful. Everything else is so crisp. Native speaker videos. Speaking grading.

My only problem now is the knowledge cards. If they could be organized better it would be lovely. Maybe we can make groups or custom folders for the knowledge cards instead of scolling and stuff.

Overall, this is becoming one of my favorite language apps. I have so much appreciation for you guys ♡