I am pleased to report that the number of Dutch entries (words, phrases, dialogues) has this week gone over the 10,000 mark.
This is the first of the languages to do so, and marks an important milestone.
Basically, the more words and phrases which there are included, the better it is for students to be able to go way beyond the beginner levels.
If you already know some of the language, you'll be pleased to know that, yes, there is a way to skip forward to the more advanced material.
When you're logged in, go to /user/set-level
For example:
If you feel you have skipped forwards too far, you can always set things back, either by a particular lesson or everything. See:
Almost every verb in NL can be used in the long and short form, e.g.:
It sometimes happens that there are several words which have the same English text.
For example, consider:
or:
or:
You should try and make sure that the student could have a reasonable chance to get a correct translation in either direction.
For example, the following would not be a good English and Dutch entry:
EN: Do you have anything bigger?
NL: Heeft u een grotere kamer? (literally: Do you have a bigger room?)
Why would these be bad?
In general (but not necessarily always) the first letter should be:
I am very pleased to announce that the Bengali language is now being added to Lingopolo.
Do check out the amazing script, the following is from the Animals lesson:
We link a phrase to all the words in that phrase. This is known as the Literal Breakdown, because it links to each of the words in the literal translation.
For example, if the phrase is "cinq chiens" (five dogs in French), then you would link to the entries for "cinq" (five) and for "chiens" (dogs).
Note that you must already have created the entries for each of the words in the phrase before you can link to them! So, if you have words in the phrase which do not yet exist in Lingopolo, you will first need to create them.
This gives a simple example of how to add a phrase to Lingopolo. In its simplest form, it's very similar to creating a word. There are basically the following minimum steps: