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2006 | November | - Language forum reaches 40,000 posts and 2000 members.
- I have been busy working on my new gastronomic blog and have a little backlog with planned upgrades in the forum. Bear with me!
| May | - Language forum reaches 24,000 posts and 1100 members.
- New ‘Language Hit List’ feature whereby forum members can add to their personal language profiles the languages they wish to learn in the future.
- New Reasons to learn my target language feature whereby forum members can select reasons to learn from a list or add their own reasons for each of their target languages.
- New statistics about why forum members wish to learn a language with very interesting results.
| March | - March 15th on Cardinal Mezzofanti's death
anniversary I published two pages about my visit to his tomb in Rome and his birth house in Bologna, including two
amazing panoramas and details of the tombstone.
- New article 'Reading in a foreign language with a limited vocabulary' whith two articles with 'rarer' words grayed out so you can see what you're missing.
- New article 'Can you speak like Kojak?' about understanding and using figurative
language, slang and idioms in a foreign language.
- Registered forum members can now see a list of
the last 50 member images uploaded.
- In the Personal Profile of other forum members you can now see a list of the threads (discussion) they have started.
- Language forum reaches 19,000 posts and 800 members.
- Now if you sign in from a subpage of the forum or on the Language Profiles section, you will not be redirected to the main forum page anymore but to the page you were on.
- Forum member languages page now has detailed statistic of the top target language on the forum, target languages by country and by native language as well as the top native languages.
- Registered forum members can now upload an image that will appear in their forum profile. You can also see the number of items in each of the tabs before clicking on them. For example: Languages [6] Posts [1513] Certificates [1] Sounds [12] Logbook [3]
- Now all forum member profiles use a new interface fully integrated with the language profiles.
- Next to to each forum post a list of the languages the poster speaks or studies will now appear. An asterisk (*) means a native language, (parenthesis) mean the language is not spoken fluently yet and if the forum member has obtained a language certificate for this language, the ALTE rating of the highest diploma he received will appear in superscript. For example: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, (Czech).
- Improved Member Language Profiles Table for each member now with a statistic of how many languages he speaks in 4 columns: Native, Basic Fluency, Advanced Fluency and total. You can sort members by each column and by location or username by clicking on the column header.
- Improved Language Skill tab in the Language profiles. Now when you click on a skill in a member profile, you can see the list of other people who have this skill in the same language but also a statistical table showing the skill mastery versus fluency. For instance here you can see that (at the time of writing) 96% of the forum members who had reached Advanced Fluency in their target language said they could 'Understand what people are talking about' often or always, whereas 88% of the Beginners could do it only sometimes.
- Improved Main forum page with a list of the 10 last forum members, 10 last images
uploaded and 10 last language profiles filled out (bottom of the page).
| February | - Language forum reaches 16,200 posts and 733 members.
- Added new Personal Language Profile feature where registered forum members can add all the languages they speak or study, with the level reached, the skills they have and the certificates they have obtained.
- Added new database of Language Certificates whith 162 certificates in 18 languages.
- New Language Learning Log feature where for each language you learn you can document every step of the learning process (what you studied, small and large milestones, difficulties, questions) from your profile and have other users comment and encourage you from the Language Learning Log forum room.
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2005 | November | - Language forum reaches 13,400 posts and 533 members.
- Added new keyword feature to the forum.
- A reader from Bologna kindly submitted pictures
of Cardinal Mezzofanti's birth house in Bologna and I took some of his
final resting place in Sant'Onofrio in Rome. They will soon be published
on this website.
| October | - Added pictures and material about Ziad Fazah to rest the controversy about his existence.
| September August | | July | | June | - Language forum reaches 6150 posts and 250 members
- Created interactive Languages & accents sounds section where you can listen to greetings sent from visitors
of How-to-learn-any-language.com in various languages and accents.
Upload yours or ask a friend to say a short greeting and share it there!
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