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Juicing The Lime

Squeezing all the little quirks out of LangLime.

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Practising specific grammar topics

Choose the grammar topics your next excerpt focuses on, so you can spend more time on whatever keeps tripping you up.

The advanced config is probably my favourite part about LangLime. It allows you to really narrow down your focus onto certain techniques and sections of the language you're learning, and helping you to strengthen your weak points.

If you open up the menu for the standard config, and then click on the Advanced button, a pop-up will appear.

This pop-up has a bunch of dropdown menus for the different selectable topics. These dropdowns will be different depending on the language you are learning. You can go ahead and start selecting some of these, if you feel like it.

The little hides some more information about each of these items. When you start selecting these items, you may see that some of the other items in the other dropdowns have become unclickable. This is because there are certain combinations which are impossible.

For exampleIn Italian if you're focusing on the "Imperfect" tense, you are unable to use the "Infinitive" verb form as infinitives are not conjugated and hence can not reflect the imperfect tense.

The next excerpt you create will take this advanced config, and tailor the text accordingly. How sweet.

If, for whatever reason, you want to see the advanced config that you used to generate a previous excerpt, then you can. Just click on the blue circle to the left of the excerpt.

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Skipping an excerpt or reporting feedback

Use the skip button after an attempt to move on, bookmark an excerpt for later or report feedback you think is wrong.

If you get to an excerpt that you just can’t seem to complete, no stress... just skip it. Underneath and to the right of your last attempt should be a button. Clicking this will show a pop-up with a couple of options.

If you want to simply move on from an excerpt and onto the next, you can. However, if you feel you may want to attempt this excerpt again at some point, then you can bookmark it.

If you think the feedback is incorrect, and you can’t move onto the next excerpt because of it, firstly - sorry. Secondly, you can raise this as an issue, write me an angry little note, and move onto the next excerpt. I’ll try and fix it... promise.

Coming soon: I'm currently building the functionality that will allow you to re-attempt the excerpts you’ve bookmarked.

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Understanding your progress

What the charts on your Progress page show: your streak, completed excerpts, attempts per excerpt and the settings you use most.

Head to the Progress page to see what you've been getting up to in LangLime. It's full of colourful charts, so I'll go through what each one shows.

Your streak

The number at the top is your current run of consecutive practice days. The row underneath shows recent days, and the little info button reveals your personal best. If you miss a day, don't panic. The practice you've already done still counts.

Completed excerpts and difficulty

The How are you progressing? chart groups completed excerpts by month. The colours split each month's total into Easy, Intermediate and Advanced, so you can see both how much you've practised and the mix of difficulties you've chosen.

A taller bar just means you completed more excerpts that month. If you've moved up a difficulty, you'll probably complete fewer, because each one takes longer.

Attempts per excerpt

Taking it too easy? groups excerpts by how many attempts they took to complete: one, two, three, four, or five and above. Avg Attempts summarises that mix. It's approximate when the five-and-above group is involved, so don't get too attached to the decimal places.

If you're consistently finishing on the first attempt and it feels comfortable, try a harder level. If you're making lots of attempts, look at the feedback and check whether the same mistake keeps coming up.

Translation direction

This chart shows how your practice is split between translating to English and from English. Use it to spot a direction you've been avoiding. If almost everything is going one way, try switching the flags for your next excerpt and see how the other direction feels.

Most used advanced configs

These bars show how often you've used particular advanced settings, coloured by type. They show which topics you've been practising.

If you've been sticking to the same settings, pick another topic to work on. If the chart is empty, start with the guide to practising specific grammar topics and give advanced config a go.

Saved stuff

At the bottom you'll find counts for Favourited Excerpts, Bookmarked Excerpts and Definitions Made. These just count what you've saved or looked up. Definitions Made links to your dictionary, but the excerpt counts don't link anywhere yet.

I'd use this page to pick one thing to change in your next session, like the translation direction or the difficulty.

Still stuck?

Tell me what tripped you up and I’ll write a guide for it.