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I'm very pleased to announce the addition of a Thai-English dictionary, together with many other dictionary improvements.

Firstly, the Thai-English dictionary. This is something which I've had in mind to add for a very long time, every since the creating the English-Thai dictionary. It's now available and, as a student of Thai myself, I find it very interesting to look at an alphabetic list of words all beginning with the same letter.

I am pleased to announce that Lingopolo now displays the total number of words and phrases known (the "All Known" statistics): 

Previously, only the number of Words Known and separately the number of Phrases Known was displayed:

I am pleased to announce that Lingopolo is now mobile friendly.

In the not so distant past, if you tried to use Lingopolo on a mobile device, this is what it would look like:

Yes, it was microscopically tiny text.

I am pleased to announce that lessons now display separately the words and phrases in a lesson:

For comparison, the old style showed all the words and phrases bundled up together:

I am pleased to announce that we now have over 4000 Thai recordings!

The current total can always be checked at the Thai Statistics page, but at the time of writing the situation is as follows:

I'm very pleased to announce a new and radically improved algorithm for word and phrase teaching order. The technical details will get a bit, well, technical, but the basic message is simple: Lingopolo will now teach you the Thai words and phrases in a much more optimal order.

I am extremely pleased to announce that the "Learn" button is now available for phrases and dialogues!

I have tweeked Lingopolo so that now multi-choice possible answers are all same length. Previously there was the rather silly situation that the correct answer might be a single word, and yet the possible answers might include an extremely long phrase. No more! Now, if the answer is one word, the possible answers will all be one word. If the correct answer has, say three words, then all the answers suggested will contain three words. This means that the multi-choice experience is a lot more sensible. And a little bit trickier!

I am pleased to announce that Lingopolo French now has over 4000 recordings!

Below is a screenshot taken at the time of writing, but do check out the French Statistics page for the most recent values.

The "Learn" button for individual words is now available everywhere!

As well as on the page for individual words and next to the words in the literal breakdown (see my blog post "The new Learn button for words"), you will now find the Learn button next to the words in the Dictionary, next to words in the recent additions list and next to the words in each lesson.