I found out today that LingQ includes words of all statuses (new, cant remember, not sure etc) in the vocab count in the top banner.
I don’t know 3349 chinese words. I have 3349 LingQs, and 651 lingQs that I have set as “known words”.
This is misleading, and I wonder if it is deliberetly so to make users feel good about a rapidly increasing vocab count?
I hope this can be addressed - either make it obvious that this number is a user’s lingQ count, or change the number to accurately reflect a user’s progress in their known vocabulary.
That is actually not the case. Your Known Words include the LingQs you have set to status 4 or √ along with all blue words you moved to known without making LingQs out of them. Status 1 to 3 LingQs are not included. The fact that your two numbers coincide above is just coincidence.
On the Vocabulary tab, you will only see the words you have saved as LingQs (yellow words). They will be included in the Known Words stats when they reach status 4 (or checkmark). However, there are also words you made known directly in a lesson without saving them as yellow first (blue to white). That’s why your Known Words total does not match with the Known Words listed on the Vocabulary page.
A list of all Known Words isn’t available.