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I am very pleased to announce the addition of a "Lesson Progress" tab for each lesson.  This shows exactly which words are at each level of progress.  

I am pleased to announce a new Thai lesson: the Living Room.

Now, whenever you are doing a quiz and see a Thai word for the first time, it gets announced as shown below.  Before, when doing a quiz, you could get tossed a new Thai word and not know whether or not it was new, or whether it was just something which you had forgotten.  This was not very satisfying.  Now, with the new system, whenever you are shown a new word, it is made absolutely clear that the word really is new.

I am very pleased to announce the addition of a "Mark this word as fully known" checkbox.  Selecting this checkbox will basically mean that you will not be asked that particular word any more. How does that help?  Well, if you are an advanced learner, and are doing (say) the lesson on animals, if there is a word you already know because you have learnt it before coming to Lingopolo, then you can now tell Lingopolo not to bother you again with that word.  In the screen shown below, if you were to click the "Mark this word as fully known (i.e.

I am pleased to say that I have added a whole bunch of new vegetables to the Thai vegetables lesson.  There were a few vegetables before, but I decided to beef it up (vegetable it up?) with a concerted effort to get a fairly definitive list of basic vegetables.

New additions include:

One change I have just finished is the automatic calculation of the Thai text for phrases. The image below shows how one of the Thai phrases previously looked.  Although each of the individual words may well have the Thai text, the phrase itself did not.  Of course, it would have been possible for me to treat each of the Thai phrases as if they were individual words, and simply to manually add the Thai text.

I have made a few small usability enhancements to the lesson pages which I'll go through here.  Each one of them is very small, almost unnoticable, but for Lingopolo to be really easy-to-use, it is the attention to such details which can make all the difference between a user saying "I really like using Lingopolo.com..." and them thinking the opposite because it becomes difficult to use.  The user usually won't know what makes a site difficult or easy to use; the answer is usually the cumulative effect of all the design decisions small and large.

I'm adding new words all the time, but I'm pleased to see that the website now has over 700 vocabulary items...

I was doing work getting the literal breakdown of words like younger brother, older brother correct when I realised that a useful group would be family. Soooo...I have now added a new lesson: Family which has all the members of the family like brother, sister, mother, child etc.

I've just added a new page which shows the recent additions.  This is a handy way to see the most recent words or phrases which have been added to the site, and also is a good view on how much work I have been doing recently.  Or not been doing recently.