After the first start of LingoTeach using lingoteach-gtk you will get several warnings, about what has to be done first. Read those warnings carefully, they will appear again and tell you what to do, when you use LingoTeach in a misconfigured mode.
After clicking the messages away, you will receive an empty application window like in Figure 1, “LingoTeach after the first start”, which is not very useful.
Your very first task should be to go to the Preferences menu and configure LingoTeach to your needs.
The preferences consist of different registers, each one having a special purpose.
The system settings register shown in Figure 2, “System Settings” has several options:
The Sound Path lets you define the absolute path to look for the sound files (it is necessary, if you installed the lingoteach-sound package and want to use those sounds).
The Web Browser is the web browser to use for opening links and similar things out of LingoTeach.
The Sound Player is - as the Sound Path - only useful for playing sound snippets. Type in your sound player (xmms, ogg123,...) with your favourite additional parameters (like -q for quiet or whaetver is supported by it).
The general settings are used for the language you know and those you want to learn and the access method.
The Learning Method lets you decide in which order the translations are displayed. Random show random selected translations and Sequence one after each other. Review and Learn are currently not supported and therefore behave like Random
The Main Language is used for the very first translation displayed in the OneByOne and Multichoice registers.
The Language check boxes let you select the languages to learn. Those will be displayed beneath the main language translation.
The lesson selection register will let you decide, which lessons you want to use for learning. You can add and remove lessons using the Add and Remove buttons.
The Used column is clickable, so you can decide, which lessons should be used for learning at the moment and which not. There is no need to load and unload them, if you change this continousely.
LingoTeach is able to use plugins. You can load and unload modules using the Add and Remove buttons.
By double clicking on the module entry in the list the module will be activated and should (depending on the module) some new stuff in the right part of the window.