Moving the play bar above the image
We are pleased to announce that we have moved the play bar above the image (it used to be over the bottom of the image).
There are two reasons for moving it:
Using Audacity to Normalise the vertical centre
Sometimes the audio is centered vertically above the 0.0 line. In this case there is another step to perform to improve things. This step is known as "normalization" and will center the audio vertically.
Before normalization:
After normalization, notice how the audio is now centered vertically:
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.