Lingopolo is a non-profit, whose aim is to bring the best language-learning to the world for free.
Duolingo is a company, whose principal aim is to make a profit.
Lingopolo has currently had a tens of thousands of dollars spent on it.
Duolingo has received $108 million dollars of investment and is worth around $700 million.
I am very pleased to announce the new courses on Buildings.
Here is the screenshot of the Buildings Courses in Thai:
You may know that Lingopolo offers Dutch lessons which are 100% free and that are free to share and build upon. We are currently looking for volunteers to help improve the Dutch content we offer.
In an earlier post announcing that Lingopolo becomes 100% free, I wrote about how I'm preparing to build Lingopolo into the world's best system for anybody to learn any-language, from any-language, for free.
Here I would like to explain how this "any-language to any-language" will be done.
Currently, we have only 3 language pairs available.
I'm pleased to announce that from now on a new "Revise" button will be appearing on lessons:
Now that Lingopolo has become free, we are going to be increasingly reliant on volunteers to help add new recordings and to do all the work around publishing them.
To that end I have created a new page specifically to invite volunteers.
I am pleased to announce that Lingopolo is now opening up all the recordings to make them free to share and build upon.
Now you are free to:
Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
This follows on from the fact that now Lingopolo becomes 100% free.
I am excited and extremely pleased to announce that, as of today, Lingopolo becomes 100% free.
Previously there had been a monthly or annual membership subscription if you wanted to use Lingopolo. But no more; it is now 100% free.
Why? How, then, is Lingopolo going to make money?
For the why, let me first explain a little bit of history and my original plans.
I am very happy to announce that Lingopolo French has now over 8000 recordings! Check out the French Statistics page for the latest number.
Nearly 2 years ago, in our blog post of April 2015 we announced over 4000 recordings, but now we have double that number.
One of the latest features in Lingopolo is course timers and locks. The problem previously is that you would be faced with lots of courses, some of which you might have studied a bit, and some not, and you never quite knew where you should be studying next.
The introduction of course timers and locks will show you exactly where you should study.
The initial state for each set of courses is for the first course to be unlocked and the others to be locked: