Weekly #DevLog / August 8
Happy Friday, everyone! Here’s what we did last week:
Android:
– For courses with multiple voice packs, we added the option to switch between packs in-lesson… or mix them up, so you (almost) never know which voice you’ll hear next. To change your voice pack, enter a lesson > go to Settings ☰ in the top right corner > Voice pack > Male/Female/Mixed or, from the main app menu, go to ME > Settings ⚙ > Learning preferences > Voice pack > Male/Female/Mixed.
– For vocabulary typing exercises, you can now choose between “tiles-typing” and using your own keyboard.
– A minor one, but we made tiles more responsive to font adjustments.
iOS:
– Upgraded Korean Alphabet & Pronunciation Guide, complete with tips & exercises for Korean sound change rules:
– Adjusted romanization font size for multiple languages.
We also fixed some bugs that had cropped up recently across different platforms. If your bug isn’t fixed yet, please know that we are on it!
As usual, thank you all for your feedback. It keeps us going! Remember that you can always reach us by email at hi@lingodeer.com and support@lingodeer.com, via the Contact Us form in the app, on Discord, or on our official subreddit r/lingodeer 🙂
Happy learning!
I’m excited to be able to have a mixed voice pack! Thanks as always 🙂
It’s good that lingodeer is being actively improved.
But!
The Thai course, which has never been very good anyway (and for which I gave quite a lot of feedback about a year ago, never saw any adjustments, even the mistakes were never fixed), is now *unusable*! I checked the first lessons, and half of the audio is missing (it was there before).
I have no need for the course anymore, because I have outgrown it by now, but for the sake of learners who come after me I hope the whole Thai course will be rewritten from scratch, with
* an alphabet course like the one for hiragana, with the spelling rules and how to write them.
* a good introduction to tones
* better timed introduction of words with hard spelling/pronunciation rules (not before the letters and the rules are introduced!)
* vocabulary that is actually used by Thais, e.g. มันฝรั่งทอด instead of เฟรนช์ไฟรส์ as well as vocabulary that reflects daily life
* better grammar explanations
Good luck!