We have made a slight change to the design of the home page, replacing the previous image (of fingers on a keyboard) with the flag of the language. We thought that the flag represents more closely the site language-learning goal.
Here is the new design for the Thai login page:
The old design, for contrast, is shown below:
The best place to start is to follow the Recommended lesson.
This can be found on the Home page and, when you are logged in, on the Online Lessons page.
On these pages you will see a Recommended lesson box that looks like this:
When you reach the end of what can be broken down, stop.
For example, the French word "maison" (house), has no further breakdown possible. There is no further useful information which can be added by breaking the word down further. Therefore leave the Literal Breakdown empty.
You should breakdown a phrase or word until it cannot be broken down any more. If it is possible to break it down more, then you should do so.
For example, to barbecue in French is cuire au barbecue. It is important for the student that they can see what each of parts mean:
Lingopolo has just completed a hugely-complex migration from the old software platform (Drupal 7) to a new one (Drupal 8).
I don't normally talk about technical things going on in the background in these blog posts, as I like to focus on the changes which directly improve the language-learning functionality.
However, today I wish to make an exception.
The Editor Dashboard is the main place to see what entries need work of some sort on them.
The actual URL of this page will depend on the language, but will be something like:
Lingopolo is based on the idea of Comprehensible Input presented in an interactive way. Comprehensible Input is basically learning language from hearing (or reading) material which is just a teeny bit above your current level, so that you can understand it, and new words or sentence structures in the material can be learnt indirectly from context.
There are some great websites which take this concept of Comprehensible Input very seriously, by containing videos in the target language from beginner to advanced.
Whenver you add an image, you should always fill in the "Image source" field. This is so that we can track where the images come from to always have proof that they are copyright free.
Sometimes we are allowed to use content from other websites.
This content must only ever be used if the other website explicitly grants permission under a Creative Commons licence where we are explicitly allowed to copy and transform their content.
One other important aspect of these licences is that we must give attribution: