One of the most committed students of Thai on Lingopolo wrote to me and asked:

 

Hi Hugh,

Just wondering….

How many people taking the Thai course?

Are there some people who have been studying Thai with you, longer than me?

Your site is a GREAT resource.

Warmly,

C

Since I think the answer to such questions are perhaps of general interest I decided to try and answer them here.

What we're trying to do

We aim to provide a high-quality language resource for people to learn Ukrainian for free. See https://lingopolo.org/ukrainian/ for the where we currently are.

Volunteer now

To join as a content editor there are just a few simple steps to get started:

The software development of Lingopolo is currently all done by the amazingly-skillful Alex. Unfortunately, Alex is based in...Ukraine. As you will know,  the war against Ukraine started on 24th February, and, understandably, the last day that Alex was regularly working on Lingopolo development was 23rd February. The war in Ukraine has of course been a horrific disaster for the people there. It has also paused development on Lingopolo.

I am very pleased to announce the introduction of the Croatian language to Lingopolo!

You can click on the Croatian flag on the Lingopolo home page https://lingopolo.org/

I am pleased to announce the number of entries (words, phrases, dialogues) on the Thai website has now gone over the 10,000 barrier! It was only in December that Dutch broke the 10,000 barrier, and the Dutch site continues to grow and grow.

Here is a screenshot from the Thai statistics today:

I am pleased to report that the number of Dutch entries (words, phrases, dialogues) has this week gone over the 10,000 mark.

This is the first of the languages to do so, and marks an important milestone.

Basically, the more words and phrases which there are included, the better it is for students to be able to go way beyond the beginner levels.

I am very pleased to announce that the Bengali language is now being added to Lingopolo.

Do check out the amazing script, the following is from the Animals lesson:

I'm pleased to share with you:
The long-term vision for Lingopolo.

I'm pleased to announce that you can now see the level that any word or phrase has reached and you can also reset that level.

You may know from FAQ about levels for the words and phrases that as you get to know words and phrases better (as shown by getting questions right) they are moved to higher and higher levels, and so are gradually asked less and less frequently.

One of the features which has been working for a while now, but which I haven't yet blogged about, is the "Play Slow" button (represented by a tortoise icon) and the "Play All" button (represented by the stack of 3 lines with a little play button in the corner).