I'm pleased to announce that pictures in blogs are now working again!

The Chinese home page is https://lingopolo.org/chinese/

Update 26th March 2024: bug now fixed

I'm extremely pleased to report that this bug now appears to be fixed (at least the problem which was appearing in the Google Chrome browser on Windows now appears fixed).

I noticed today that a major new version of the Google Chrome browser had been released and I immediately noticed that the audio problem was no longer was happening. I have checked with many people and they have all confirmed that the problem is now fixed. Thank you if you were one of those confirming that things are now ok.

If you look at the Lingopolo home page https://lingopolo.org/ you might have noticed that there are some new buttons. These give you the ability to view the languages in two ways.

Here is the flag view of the languages:

We are pleased to announce that we have moved the play bar above the image (it used to be over the bottom of the image).

There are two reasons for moving it:

One of the most committed students of Thai on Lingopolo wrote to me and asked:

 

Hi Hugh,

Just wondering….

How many people taking the Thai course?

Are there some people who have been studying Thai with you, longer than me?

Your site is a GREAT resource.

Warmly,

C

Since I think the answer to such questions are perhaps of general interest I decided to try and answer them here.

What we're trying to do

We aim to provide a high-quality language resource for people to learn Ukrainian for free. See https://lingopolo.org/ukrainian/ for the where we currently are.

Volunteer now

To join as a content editor there are just a few simple steps to get started:

The software development of Lingopolo is currently all done by the amazingly-skillful Alex. Unfortunately, Alex is based in...Ukraine. As you will know,  the war against Ukraine started on 24th February, and, understandably, the last day that Alex was regularly working on Lingopolo development was 23rd February. The war in Ukraine has of course been a horrific disaster for the people there. It has also paused development on Lingopolo.

I am very pleased to announce the introduction of the Croatian language to Lingopolo!

You can click on the Croatian flag on the Lingopolo home page https://lingopolo.org/

I am pleased to announce the number of entries (words, phrases, dialogues) on the Thai website has now gone over the 10,000 barrier! It was only in December that Dutch broke the 10,000 barrier, and the Dutch site continues to grow and grow.

Here is a screenshot from the Thai statistics today:

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.