Allow manual selection of multi-word phrases (instead of just full sentences)

[Alfred_Song]

Hi Team,

Currently, LR treats “Phrases” and “Sentences” as the same thing. However, for language learners, learning specific phrasal verbs and collocations (e.g., “heading to,” “take off,” “set up”) is more important than saving an entire long sentence.

The Issue: I cannot manually highlight and save a 2 or 3-word phrase.

• If I save a word, I lose the collocation.
• If I save the phrase (by clicking the star), it saves the entire sentence, which makes my “Saved” list very cluttered and hard to review.

My Suggestion: Please enable a feature that allows us to manually highlight a specific group of words in the sidebar and save it as a “Phrase” entry, independent of the full sentence.

This would be a huge improvement for serious learners. Thank you!

[Yana]

Hello @Alfred_Song,
Thank you for your suggestion!
We have a plan to discuss this feature. We may add it in the future.
For now, you can save expressions manually. Enter the expression in the Search field in the Dictionary, then save the phrase (click the star icon) from the search results, and it will appear in your Saved Phrases (see screenshot).