It sometimes happens that there are several words which have the same English text.

The easy case: words with very different meaning

For example, consider:

• bar (meaning the place where you have an alcoholic drink)
• bar (such as a bar of chocolate)

or:

• light (meaning the opposite of dark)
• light (meaning not heavy)

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:

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: