I recently joined so I’m not sure if I am doing something wrong.
Isn’t every word I click on in a story to translate supposed to automatically be added to the Word List? That happened during the Get Started “Read something” step. With everything else I’ve read, none of the words are added to the Word List. Am I required to finish all the Get Started steps before it will add more words or is something not working properly?
So it seems this was a user error. Puzzled by the lack of words in the word list, I was exploring the different option. Clicked on Deleted and found a list of all the words I had translated. Glad there is an “undelete” option.
I kept looking for a tutorial since clearly I was doing something wrong. I finally found the “How to Read Articles” post which clarified that I was supposed to leave the translations visible.
Most of the time when I clicked on word, I was almost certain I had it translated correctly but was just checking to confirm. Once confirmed, I no longer need to see the translation so I was closing it to clean up the page.
It would helpful to include watch that video as the first thing of the Get Started steps so new members do not fall into the same situation.
Also, it would be nice to be able to hide the translation without it marking it deleted.
Despite my confusion, I am really enjoying this site. The features on this are very helpful. The Web Reader is a really neat feature enabling me to read some pages I’ve struggled with as I found it too tedious to lookup every word I didn’t know.
There is actually a setting you can change if you don’t want the flashcards to be deleted when you click to hide them while reading. See here: Delete Flashcards While Reading - Readlang Blog
Those video tutorials I made are quite old now and I should make new ones!
Glad you’re finding Readlang helpful!