March updates: new matching algorithm, Polyglot Gathering & more

Etiene Dalcol, March 22, 2024

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This newsletter’s topics:

🆕 Version 2.4 is out!

Click here to download / upgrade. What’s new since Polygloss 2.3:

👯‍♀️ New matching algorithm.
⚙️ Translate and listen when writing a message.
📝 See latest messages in player profile.
♻️ Change lesson during match.
🔎 More player discovery options.
🖼️ UI improvements.
📈 Faster respond match button.
🐞 Bug fixes.
🖼️ 2 new lessons: Women’s Art and Women’s History

🎊 Events

Polyglot Gathering 2024

https://www.polyglotgathering.com/2024/en/

Hello, all 👋 If you would like to meet me in person and participate in an awesome conference, come join me at Polyglot Gathering. I’ll be there distributing some Polygloss stickers, chatting about language learning, and running some marketing promos. Speaking of marketing promos, if you are currently a Czech learner and Polygloss user, I have something cool to announce. Share about Polygloss on social media or other websites recommending the app to other learners and I’ll give you one month of free premium + you’ll enter a raffle for a secret personalized hand-made gift 🎁 Make sure I see the post (either tag @polyglossapp or email me the link). I hope to see you there!

Where: Prague, Czech Republic

When: May 15 to May 19, 2024.

Registration: link

Discord server

Polygloss now has a Discord server for us to discuss the app and language learning in general.

[Spanish] How & When to Use Estar: Usage Rules, Examples, & Practice

https://www.tellmeinspanish.com/grammar/when-to-use-estar/

[English] Cambridge’s language assessment preparation

[Japanese] Activate your Japanese, a 24-episode drama that features useful communication strategies

[Czech] 63 resources to learn Czech for free

[General] How I combine Languages & UX Design, by Lindie Botes

Mentions

[Duolingo Forum] Polygloss - a great way to practice your language

Polygloss statistics

In the last month, 622 Polygloss language learners posted 11,206 short texts in 65 languages:

Help more people find Polygloss

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Get Polygloss Unlimited

Features:

🎁 Everything from the free Polygloss version: play an image guessing game to practice languages, get points and unlock topics.

⚡️ Unlimited energy points to use on translations, reviewing, saving a text to your library and more.

📢 Listen button and special listening exercises (supports 40+ languages).

🎤 Audio recording (send and receive audio messages during matches).

👑 A special VIP crown on your username.

👩🏻‍💻 Support a LatAm woman-led indie project.

Click here to see the full breakdown between free and paid features.

Pricing:

We have a pay-what-you-can scheme with different tiers of pricing according to your affordability adjusted per country / region. There is no difference in the subscription features between these tiers. There are monthly, yearly, and lifetime plan. The possibility to buy a lifetime subscription is not going to be unlocked to all players forever, so get yours while you can!


What did you think of these updates? Drop a comment below, we’d love to hear your thoughts 👇


Etiene is a Software Engineer who is passionate about languages. She recently finished her MSc. in Computer Science researching Computational Linguistics and Computer Assisted Language Learning.