Insights into the hardest-working Thai students
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.
Call for Ukrainian volunteers to help add Ukrainian language
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:
How much time does it require to be a volunteer?
It might take a day or two to be granted editor permissions, but then it will probably take less than an hour to learn how to start to be able to contribute to Lingopolo as an editor. Sure, some of the more complex tasks (like creating and editing sound files) might need a bit more time to learn, but generally speaking it's been made relatively easy to contribute.
Volunteering
As a non-profit, the content for each language comes from a mix of volunteers and (in the rare case where money is available for content) from people who are paid to work on content.
If you are volunteering, let me thank you for helping people have access to free quality language education.
This section hopes to answer some of the questions that you might have as a volunteer.
Ukraine war pauses Lingopolo development
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.
Downloading the Tatoeba audio files
It's not immediately obvious how to download the Tatoeba audio files.
This explains how to do it.
When you are on a sentence page like:
https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10673137
right-click on the audio icon, and on the pop-up menu click on the "Save link as..." which will enable you to download the audio as an mp3 file:
How do I change my password?
The easiest way to reset your password is directly when you are logged in. If you don't remember your password so cannot log in, see further down.
Changing your password when logged in
If you are logged in, click on your profile icon in the top right:
Then click on the Edit profile button: