Suggestions: hotkeys and dictionaries

Hello!  

I have been using LanguageCrush for a few months, and really like the reading tool. I do have some feedback on minor annoyances which I'm listing below.

Hotkeys

• When using the arrow keys to move between words, I want to skip over words marked as ignored (thus only moving between unknown or learning words).
• A hotkey to open up your default dictionary when a word is selected. 

Dictionaries

• Ability to add Wiktionary lookup alongside other dictionaries
• Fix strange default translations. See image below for an example where the default translation is incorrect, clearly not matching other dictionaries. 

UI

• Ability to filter passages by whether I have marked them as read or not. 

 

Ok, we’ve discussed this.

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When using the arrow keys to move between words, I want to skip over words marked as

In work.

wrote:

A hotkey to open up your default dictionary when a word is selected.

In work.

wrote:

Ability to add Wiktionary lookup alongside other dictionaries.

Can you explain further? And what dictionaries?

wrote:

Fix strange default translations.

There’s no way for us to do this globally, but you can get rid of them from your own session by using “delete”.

wrote:

Ability to filter passages by whether I have marked them as read or not.

Investigating.

 

 

 

 

 

Can you explain further? And what dictionaries?

In the translation options I'd find it useful to have a Lookup Using wiktionary.org. I manually copy words into Wiktionary often, particularly to see the etymology.

If Wiktionary was an option I would use it alongside Reverso. Ideally I could use a hotkey for my primary lookup (Reverso) and secondary lookup (Wiktionary) - but I recognise something like this might be too confusing/convoluted; in any case it would still be useful to be able to select Wiktionary as a dictionary. 

Would it be possible to see the Wiktionary entry for each word? Perhaps that could be an embedded window. I am learning Vietnamese and Wiktionary is consistently the best resource for defintions, translation, examples and etymology.

palace3416.3416 wrote:

Would it be possible to see the Wiktionary entry for each word? Perhaps that could be an embedded window. I am learning Vietnamese and Wiktionary is consistently the best resource for defintions, translation, examples and etymology.

In work - see post above

leosmith wrote:

Ok, we’ve discussed this.

wrote:

When using the arrow keys to move between words, I want to skip over words marked as

In work.

wrote:

A hotkey to open up your default dictionary when a word is selected.

In work.

wrote:

Ability to add Wiktionary lookup alongside other dictionaries.

Can you explain further? And what dictionaries?

wrote:

Fix strange default translations.

There’s no way for us to do this globally, but you can get rid of them from your own session by using “delete”.

wrote:

Ability to filter passages by whether I have marked them as read or not.

Investigating.

Thanks for your patience - we finished most of these. 

To activate the arrow keys, hit the esc key first (to get the cursor out of the definition box) and they should work as you described.

Same thing to activate "p", which makes the dictionaries pop up.

Wictionary has been added to Italian dictionaries.

The filter has been added - it's the book icon in library and my passages.

palace3416.3416 wrote:

Would it be possible to see the Wiktionary entry for each word? Perhaps that could be an embedded window. I am learning Vietnamese and Wiktionary is consistently the best resource for defintions, translation, examples and etymology.

Sorry - we missed this one. I wrote a ticket to add Wictionary to Vietnamese dictionaries. Hopefully we'll get to it within a week.

palace3416.3416 wrote:

Would it be possible to see the Wiktionary entry for each word? Perhaps that could be an embedded window. I am learning Vietnamese and Wiktionary is consistently the best resource for defintions, translation, examples and etymology.

Done.