Is a "natural" language-learning approach realistic for someone who only studies an hour a day?

Hello again, devs. I continue to use the unpaid version of language reactor nearly every day. I love it. Thank you so, so much for this tool. Please hear me out on this. I understand the theory behind language reactor, that you want a language learning tool that helps people learn language the way we learned our native language. The thing is, that is most effective when one is fully immersed. If fully immersed, you may hear a new word several times a day, giving you the repetition and context required to understand it’s meaning and remember it. For someone who isn’t fully immersed, a more hybrid method works well. I like to watch a video, make flashcards of all the new words, then review the flash cards and watch the video once a day, giving me both the context (through the video) and the kind of repetition that I need to get a word into my long-term memory (through the flashcards). Learning via comprehensible input takes humans years even in an immersion environment. For someone like me who studies an hour a day or so, flash-cards are essential if you want to pick up the language at a reasonable pace. So, I’m just gonna beg again, shamelessly. The only thing between me and a paid subscription is a more customizable phrase pump. Will you please, please make phrase pump more customizable. Make it so you can select only the words you saved from individual episodes. When it screen-shots the part of the episode where the word appeared, I love that. That function is golden. If I could have it feed me exclusively those from specific episodes, I would be the happiest language learner ever. Make it so you can choose whether the selected words appear in new sentences or in their original sentences (from the episode in which they were saved). Make it so you can select all your saved words from multiple episodes. Just make it customizable af, plzzzzz. I swear, I will become a paying user for the forseeable future if you include this feature. I’m begging you. Thanks, Devs. I love you but not in a creepy way. Please include this feature. Okay, bye.

~Doug

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Hello @Doug_Eichner,
Thank you for your suggestion! It could indeed be useful. We have added these suggestions to the PhrasePump section improvements.