New Version Online. Now with Phonetics switch in each Quiz

I just made another update live with the following additions:

- I corrected a mistake in the phonetics (it was displayed incorrectly).
- You can switch between standard script and phonetic script within each quiz.
- The slideshow now shows both standard script and phonetic script.
- The design of the explorer mode has been improved.

I see from my web stats that quite a number of people are using the app and it would be great to get more ideas from your side on how to improve even further!

By the way, when you load the language files you will have to wait a few moments until the progress bar shows 95% (because it is not properly updated). We will fix that sometime soon.

Joker Button and Visual Effects – New Version Online –

Welcome to my newest online update!

I’ve added a few new features and would like to tell you about them:

Lesson 1
Lesson 1 is brand spanking new and contains some simple greeting phrases. Later on, I plan to separate the content into two areas:
(1) Common phrases (similar to lesson 1) and
(2) Lessons focusing on vocabulary building and specific grammar issues (lessons 2,3 etc)

How does that sound to those of you out there?

Joker
For the picture quiz and the translation quiz, I have integrated a Joker (in the top right menu bar). If you are unsure about the correct answer, you can click on the Joker, and it will reduce the number of possible answers, thereby making your choice easier.

Joker Function with Blur Effect

Visual Effects
I have greatly polished the visual effects. You will now see many fade effects within the quizzes. Please let me know if you enjoy this feature or if you find anything annoying about it.

Well…I hope everything works well, and if you notice any bugs, please let me know. Of course, any other feedback is also very welcome!

P.S. Currently, only the Thai Version has been updated. Chinese Mandarin soon will follow.

Difference between L-Lingo and L-Ceps

A couple of people have asked, “What exactly is the difference between L-Lingo and the L-Ceps Desktop Language Learning Software?”
The L-Ceps language learning software has been developed over many years and offers many features that are not available in L-Lingo:

- It is a stand-alone Desktop Software, and thus, you do not need an internet connection.

- With 55 lessons, it contains approximately three times more content than L-Lingo (please note that in L-Lingo, the lessons are much smaller than in L-Ceps).

- The quizzes in L-Ceps are more sophisticated and have features like Jokers.

- L-Ceps provides detailed statistics about your learning success.

- L-Ceps comes with a printable PDF textbook and PDF flashcards for “offline” learning.

If you are curious about L-Ceps, please have a look at our website. You can also download a free trial there with all the features of the full version (but containing only a limited amount of lessons).

L-Lingo Mandarin updated

After getting a great deal of feedback on the Thai Version of L-Lingo, we have today updated and re-launched L-Lingo Mandarin.
You can access it from this link:

http://www.l-lingo.com/en/learn-chinese-mandarin

The application will use the Standard Chinese font installed on your computer. We decided not to embed a Chinese font in the application. Because our application is around 700k and the Chinese fonts are roughly 15MB, adding Chinese font would have increased the loading time of the application by more than 20 times! You may wonder how our application can be that small. Well, to answer your question, this file contains only the core flash application loaded at start-up. All the audio clips and images are loaded on demand, and are therefore not part of the 700k file.

In case you have problems viewing the Chinese font, we also have a version that includes the Chinese font, but it will take much longer to load for the reasons mentioned above. You can access this version with the following link:

http://www.l-lingo.com/app/index_cma.html

As always, please give us feedback and suggestions on how we can further improve this product.

L-Lingo is getting traction

We just released L-Lingo to the general public three days ago, and I am quite happy to see that we are already gaining traction as more and more people begin using our web application. We have noticed some interesting discussions going on in the Thaivisa forum where people complained about the buzz and wow sounds. Thanks to these comments, we already have changed the sounds to more subtle variations. There also seem to be some problems with the Thai font on certain computers, so we are currently working to resolve this issue as well.

Today, I was extremely pleased that we were featured in the Women Learn Thai Blog. Thanks so much to Catherine for writing the post. I am looking forward to reading comments on her blog about how we can further improve our application.

Please let us know your feedback

The current version of L-Lingo is still a ‘baby’ and will grow considerably in the next weeks and months. Therefore, you have great power in getting your ideas considered—but we have to hear from you.

Please use the comment section of this post to let us know how you like the application and if there are any areas in which you’d like to see improvements. If anything is not working properly, please tell us about it. We have a page of known  bugs and annoyances. You can have a look there to see if the problem is already known to us.

Welcome to L-Lingo!

This is the first post on the L-Lingo blog, so let me extend a warm welcome to all our visitors! I have spent the last weeks developing an online platform for learning Asian languages, using the content of our L-Ceps desktop language learning software.

We intend to bring our language learning experience to a broader audience, and to put it on a more accessible web-based platform. Best of all, you can use it anywhere, anytime—for free!

We are continually enhancing this platform, but currently, it does not yet offer the many functions and content of the L-Ceps language course. So, if you like this online platform and are interested in the Desktop Version, you should download a free trial on the L-Ceps website.

This is only the beginning. We will be continuing development of this online language platform, and would love to hear any feedback from all of you. Get in touch with us and tell us what you like, what you don’t like, or anything else you think we should know. Use the comments section in this blog or email us at info@l-lingo.com to send along your ideas.

The L-Lingo Team