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I'm pleased to announce that from now on a new "Revise" button will be appearing on lessons:

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.

I am pleased to announce that Lingopolo is now opening up all the recordings to make them  free to share and build upon.

Now you are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material

This follows on from the fact that now Lingopolo becomes 100% free.

I am excited and extremely pleased to announce that, as of today, Lingopolo becomes 100% free.

Previously there had been a monthly or annual membership subscription if you wanted to use Lingopolo. But no more; it is now 100% free.

Why? How, then, is Lingopolo going to make money?

A little bit of history

For the why, let me first explain a little bit of history and my original plans.

I am very happy to announce that Lingopolo French has now over 8000 recordings! Check out the French Statistics page for the latest number.

Nearly 2 years ago, in our blog post of April 2015 we announced over 4000 recordings, but now we have double that number.

One of the latest features in Lingopolo is course timers and locks. The problem previously is that you would be faced with lots of courses, some of which you might have studied a bit, and some not, and you never quite knew where you should be studying next.

The introduction of course timers and locks will show you exactly where you should study.

The initial state for each set of courses is for the first course to be unlocked and the others to be locked: 

A little enhancement just added: the Mastery Scores (High Scores) bar at the top of the screen will now stay visible at all times (on a full-size screen) when you scroll up and down. This will make it easier for you to keep an eye on how you're doing:

I am pleased to announce that the Lingopolo courses have now been broken up into lessons of 10 words each. This will make it much easier for you to learn the language in bite-sized chunks without getting overwhelmed by the huge number of words in any given course.

For example, the Animals Courses page now looks as follows:

I am delighted to be able to present to you a beautiful new course page design.

Here are all the things to look out for:

I am pleased to announce improved course layout pages. For example, the Themed Thai Courses now look as follows:

Basically the idea is to display a lot more courses at a glance. This will make it easier to select the course you want without having to scroll and scroll.

For comparison, here is the old layout: