Imagine you are in a classroom with a teacher who is using purely your target language. The teacher points to parts of his body and, in the target language, says what the parts are (e.g. head, arm, nose). The teacher then asks you, in the target language, to point, for example at his head. If you get it right, the teacher congratulates you. If you get it wrong, or appear to be struggling, the teacher will help you or correct you. All the time, this is done in the target language.

A quiz consists of up to 10 questions taken from a particular lesson, and is the main way in which Lingopolo teaches you the words and phrases. Each question in the quiz is scored either right or wrong.

The levels make sure you are learning the words and phrases in the most efficient way. We use a scientifically proven method called Spaced Repetition. All you have to remember is that the website will automatically calculate which is the best word or phrase to ask you next. The system ensures that you are gradually learning new words, that you get lots of revision of the most recent words or those words which you are having problems with, and that you are still revising old words.

A lesson is a collection of words or phrases which you can practise using quizzes.

A lesson can be on subjects from food to Thai consonants.

A lesson can have just a few words, such as the days of the week or have absolutely hundreds of words like the vocabulary lesson.

Lingopolo organises lessons into sets of words, and trains you to understand these words by quizzing you with flashcards.  At the start of each quiz, you will be shown your current knowledge of the set of words, and at the end of each quiz, you will be shown your new knowledge level.  The idea is that you move each set of words along from having a starting knowledge of 0% to the point where for each set you have a knowledge of 100%.

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• Where do I start?

Lingopolo is a free website designed to teach you to understand and speak languages.  It does this through online lessons taught through quizzes.

For example, here is an example of a multi-choice question:

You can study the language with dozens of different themes:

Lingopolo is completely free to use and plans to stay that way. Read Lingopolo becomes 100% free to find out why.

We believe that everyone should have access to quality language education. That's why Lingopolo aims to do for language learning what Wikipedia has done for knowledge learning. To become the place to learn languages online, to learn any language, from any language, for free.

Hello, my name is Hugh, and I am the founder and original creator of Lingopolo.  

The name Lingopolo comes from two parts, "lingo" and "polo".  

"Lingo" means a foreign language or local dialect, and of course Lingopolo is all about helping you to learn the foreign lingo or language.