September Updates: LingoPie partnership and next plans

Etiene Dalcol, September 29, 2022

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LingoPie Partnership

Polygloss and LingoPie now have a partnership! If you’re learning one of the 9 languages they have available, and you like learning through watching TV, then you should absolutely check them out! They support Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and English.

Transparency: the link above contains an affiliate tag, that means that Polygloss will make a commission for any LingoPie subscriptions bought through it.


Plans for next Polygloss versions

We just finished making the plans for what we want to implement in the next few app versions. What do you think? Let us know in the comments 🤗

🖼 Add 7 new lessons - In progress

✊🏽 Improve skin color diversity of Health lessons - In progress

🔤 Reprocess word hints and add hints for more languages, including Welsh - In progress

🐞♿️ Fix accessibility bug: iOS texts not displaying correctly with larger fonts - Next

♻️ Quick Play / review / correct outside of match - Next

🐞 Fix bug: Language picker always picking first language when opening app

🐞 Fix bug: Sometimes an error causes karma or lesson points not to save

🐞 Fix bug: Sometimes some players can’t open some corrections

⏮ Show matches’ last round selection

🏆 Add more player award options

🙈 Allow editing match after sending

🐞 Investigate app getting stuck if backgrounded

❌ Tap to dismiss bottom notification

🔡 Add language specific in-game announcements


Best feedbacks and shout-outs

Every time we send a newsletter, we will pick the player who gave us the best feedback or shout-out in social media and send them a surprise prize! 🎁 The winner this month is @beckidy!


Polygloss statistics

Matches in the last 30 days

👏 2,224 players have written🖋 48,599 texts using 🔡 83 languages in total!

Top 10 most active language languages by total texts

Congratulations to the Welsh community, Welsh skyrocketed from the 10th to the 1st position! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪
Congratulations to the Welsh community, Welsh skyrocketed from the 10th to the 1st position! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪

Top 5 most active languages by average per player

Welsh remains at the lead for most prolific learners, but should watch out for Hebrew, which jumped from the 10th to the 2nd position! Will Hebrew snatch the crown from Welsh next month? 👀
Welsh remains at the lead for most prolific learners, but should watch out for Hebrew, which jumped from the 10th to the 2nd position! Will Hebrew snatch the crown from Welsh next month? 👀

Finances

💰 There are currently 40 active Polygloss Unlimited subscribers, getting us about £78 monthly after google play and app store take their cut. With the addition of lifetime Polygloss Unlimited purchases, the revenue for the last 30 days was £226. Basic maintenance of the app costs about £80-100 monthly (hosting, newsletters, software licenses etc) not counting extraordinary expenses such as paying part-time staff (£275), marketing campaigns (£50-500), or paying myself (£0). This means we are currently operating at loss. If you would like to support us, consider subscribing for Polygloss Unlimited 💖 You can read more info about Polygloss’ finances in our Notion Workspace.


Supporting Polygloss

👯‍♀️ Share Polygloss with your friends

Polygloss is a collaborative game, the more people play, the better the learning experience. Inviting other folks and helping us grow our community is the best way to support us! Tell them what you think of the app send them the link to our website: https://polygloss.app

Other ways to support Polygloss:


Latest from our blog

https://polygloss.app/posts/learning-spanish-how-i-did-it/

[Welsh]

If you’re learning Welsh and use Twitter, don’t forget to follow DoctorCymraeg over there!

https://twitter.com/CymraegDoctor

[English]

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.