Hi Steve, This is the first time I’ve noticed that clicking on a word, or even a phrase, doesn’t stop the reading application from continuing on. I’d not seen that before, so I am presuming it is a recent “tweak” – and I wanted you to know it vastly improves the experience!
Glad you like it. I know that it’s not universally popular though. At least one person has complained that they liked the way it would pause when you click.
Hi Steve. I guess some people don’t understand that stopping for every unusual word or phrase is NOT the best way to get to mastery. The measured evidence is overwhelming that to speed up the transition to mastery recognition should only be in the 80-90% range, picking up words and phrase recognition largely by context. Further, there is a large amount of evidence that there is more beneift (or, at least, major benefit) to forcing oneself into the discomfort zone: racing to keep up with the native speaker at native speed, rather than dumbing everything down.
I understand, well, that there are a lot of people who are obsessive about getting everything perfect. And there are other people who just don’t understand that is the SLOW way to learn a language. I understand because I wasted at least a decade dinking around with vocabulary memorization, getting approximately nowhere in terms of useful language facility, before I screwed up my courage, and – with readlang – forced myself to jump into the fast flowing river. It really was kind of psychologically painful at the beginning. But now I can listen to native, adult podcasts from various countries, at full speed, and generally follow along. I dont think there is any other way to get there than to eventually just jump into the current and struggle a bit to keep up. Practicing with a pacifier only gets you to infant level. ;-Q