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I'm very pleased to announce the addition of an improved "quiz results" page.

There are two very helpful additions:

1. the "Recording" column. With this, you can of course listen again to the word(s) you got wrong.
2. the "Learn" button, where available. Not every word or phrase currently has a "Learn" button, but many do. Where this exists, it will take you directly to a lesson to learn the word in context.

I hope these little additions help you to focus on the words you are currently struggling with.

I'm extremely pleased to announce the launch of the "Learn" button. This is a wonderful addition (I think), which allows you to go directly into the in context lesson to learn a particular word. If you don't know what an in context lesson is, then have a look at my recent blog post about the new in context lessons.

I am pleased to announce the introduction of a new type of lesson called the "in context" lesson. Basically the "In context" lesson will teach you:

• the single word (e.g. "dog")
• all of the examples which use that word (e.g. "the dog and the elephant")
• all of the vocabulary you need to understand the example sentences (e.g. "and", "elephant")

This is wonderful, because it enables you to effectively practise a single word.

The "Recommended lesson" at the top of the online lessons page is now definitely recommended:

I'm pleased to announce that now Lingopolo will now work on Android.

Well, recent versions of Android at least. I have a Samsung Galaxy SIII from June 2013 (which is less than 2 years ago at the time of writing), and that is stuck on Android version 4.1.2, and Lingopolo will not work on this very old version of Android. Shame.

Lingopolo has however been successfully tested on Khru Goi's Samsung Note 8 running Android 4.4, and it works!

Happy Lingopolo on-the-go Thai learning to all you Android users.

I am pleased to announce the introduction of a shortcut "Learn" button. This can be used to immediately start any of the lessons on the Online Lessons page.

Now, it looks like this:

Previously the list of lessons looked like this:

I am in the process of graduating from Founder Institute. This is a 4 1/2 month boot-camp for entrepreneurs. My aim is to take Lingopolo from being a part-time hobby into a viable business. This is good news for you, as it means than I will be able to invest much more time in making Lingopolo the truly world-class language-teaching product which I would like it to be.

Until now, whenever you got a question right, Lingopolo would always ask you whether you want to ""Mark this word as fully known (i.e. move it to level 10)":

Questions answered correctly are now not repeated in the same quiz. Hooray!

Previously, it was possible when you answered a word correctly in a quiz, for the same word to be asked again. This was of course rather annoying, and not very helpful. Well, I'm pleased to announce that now, as far as possible, if you answer a word correctly, you will not be asked the same word again in that quiz. This of course is how it should be, and no longer annoying, and much more helpful.

I hope that this will help you focus on those words and phrases which you don't yet know so well.

Previously, if you were answering a multi-choice question, and got the answer wrong, Lingopolo only showed you the correct answer:

Now, Lingopolo will remind you which answer you wrongly selected:

It's only a small change, but a little bit more user-friendly.