New quiz type: Automatic
One of the recent additions is a new quiz type: automatic.
What is it? How is it used?
One of the recent additions is a new quiz type: automatic.
What is it? How is it used?
I am very pleased to officially announce a new quiz type: multi-choice. It's been around in an early form for about a month, but now I'm finally happy with the way it works, I'm happy to announce it.
Example of selecting the multi-choice quiz type:
A recent Lingopolo addition which I am pretty pleased with is the introduction of Dialogue Word Lessons and Dialogue Phrase Lessons.
I'm pleased to announce 3 new Thai lessons:
I am pleased to announce the introduction of a "Words Known" and "Words known by level" summary for logged in users:
I'm pleased to announce the addition of three new Thai lessons: the Solar System, On the farm and Birds.
Now there's a funny collection.
I am pleased to announce the addition of a new "Summary" section to each word, phrase or dialogue. This presents, what I think to be, a beautiful summary of what the recording is all about. Strictly speaking it doesn't add any information which isn't already available on the page (with the tiny exception of actually stating how many parts the literal breakdown contains); the page already contains the English, the Thai, and the Literal Breakdown. However, it does add a subtle but important usability aspect to the pages.
I have replaced the original recordings player, which used to look as follows:
with the following design:
What's changed and why? Firstly, what's changed: basically all the buttons and controls which in the context of learning a language had no real value have been removed, and the overall size of the player has been reduced. Specifically
I am pleased to announce the addition of "Alternative meanings (Homophones)" and "See also" links. What on earth am I talking about? Indeed. Let me give a few examples, and hopefully it'll become clearer.
There are some changes to Lingopolo that make me really very excited; this one here is one of those.