one million! congratulations. Does it mean one million members actually being member, or does it mean one million including also those who were member in the past and have put an end to their membership?
The same question popped into my mind, Wulfgar. My guess is that the PAYING MEMBERS hover around 5% of the total membership. I imagine that there is a range plus or minus 3%-7% due to new paying members and paying members who do not renew their paid membership for whatever reason.
Just a rough estimate, based on the active members here in the forum, and the rankings. LingQ is also kind of exotic compared to other language learning platforms like Babbel, Busuu, Duolingo, etc., and is more for people who are used to learn autonomically (and there are not so many who are able to learn languages autonomically with a system like LingQ)…
And then there are people like me: inactive, but still paying… Stupid, I know, but I don’t really want to lose my imported lessons and I always plan to get back to learning rather sooner than later.
I agree. Being able to read and listen to stuff you’re actually interested in and having the tools to efficiently identify and track the words you want to learn throughout all of your readings is simply the most powerful way of learning a language, in my opinion.
I tried some other programs for a while and they just don’t compare to LingQ. So I’m back to using LingQ and to my surprise it’s actually much better than it was before. Especially the android app, which previously was my biggest complaint because I do most of my reading throughout the day on my phone and the old app was too crippled in its functionality. The new app is amazing. Now I finally have essentially everything I wanted in a language learning system. Thank you, LingQ team. And congratulations on your 1 millionth member!