I can only Blitz max 25 of my 300+ selected phrases?

[Steve]

@Sr1

I’ve been setting up categories of words and phrases so I can practice them intensively/exclusively. Use them as forms, try to integrate them into my casual conversation, recognize them instinctively, etc. I’ve done this by using special characters which I can serach for, e.g: @#$%^&+. That’s nice. With those categories I see I can pull up ALL words or phrases which meet a particular category for extensive practice – that seems to work.

The problem is that when I start practicing from those long lists, say 300 selected phrases, I can only do a max of 25 words or phrases before I come back to the prompt . . . and selecting another 25 words puts me back into the default queue instead of letting me proceed with the other 275 I also want to practice. Can you please prioritize fixing this BUG?

That’s an inventive way to categorize words. I’m afraid I wouldn’t describe it as a bug though since it sounds like the system is behaving as designed. Each session is a maximum of 25 words/phrases, and if you start a new flashcard session from the Practice tab there’s no way to filter by words containing certain characters. Right now the only way you can prioritize learning of certain words is by starring (favoriting) them which will make the spaced repetition scheduling algorithm prfioritize them above the rest.

I’ll take the feedback on board though and will consider more fine grained categorization (beyond just starring words) in future. (No promises)

@Sr1

(1) A dedicated, easily reachable single key to request pronunciation. This would allow me to replay the same word or phrase over and over again so I can practice hearing it and practice my pronunciation. Right now I have to click. And click. And click. And…well, this is just something which should be keystroke easy. And it would be trivial to implement, yes?

You can do this already!

Ctrl + P (Cmd + P on mac): Replay audio (only while there’s a blue speaker icon visible next to the word/phrase you’re learning)

Full list of keyboard shortcuts here: List of keyboard shortcuts in Readlang

@Sr1

(2) This next feature would be harder, no doubt, but I’m going to suggest it anyway. To recognize common sub-phrases /idioms within longer practice card phrases it would be really nice to be able to italicize characters. Right now I am using all manner of tricks, like embedding/capitalizing certain words like “QUE”, or …" so I can see the start and end of the idiom reflexively. Ability to type in italics would be much nicer and shouldn’t affect any of the other features, or would it? Just a nice touch I thought I would suggest.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll bear it in mind and if more people have similar feedback I’ll consider it.