Creating or finding audio
There are two main ways in which we get audio content for Lingopolo:
How Lingopolo plans to work from any language, to any language
In an earlier post announcing that Lingopolo becomes 100% free, I wrote about how I'm preparing to build Lingopolo into the world's best system for anybody to learn any-language, from any-language, for free.
Here I would like to explain how this "any-language to any-language" will be done.
What we currently have
Currently, we have only 3 language pairs available.
New "Revise" button
I'm pleased to announce that from now on a new "Revise" button will be appearing on lessons:
Are the recordings of real people?
As far as possible, all the recordings are made by real people, who are all native speakers of the language.
We do not use people who have learned the languages as second languages.
For example, 100% of the Thai words, phrases and dialogues (currently 12274 entries) are spoken by real people, all of whom are native Thai speakers.
Content synchronisation
Home site
The home site will contain a central record of all the common data on each of the language-specific sites, e.g.
- the picture for any given word
- the picture copyright information
- the lessons which a particular word belongs in (e.g. that the word "dog" belongs in the Animals lesson, the Pets lesson, and the Nouns lesson)
By keeping this common data in one place it means that we can share the data more easily between the different language versions.
A volunteer page
Now that Lingopolo has become free, we are going to be increasingly reliant on volunteers to help add new recordings and to do all the work around publishing them.
To that end I have created a new page specifically to invite volunteers.
