1. Add your own Language course
   1. Preconditions
   2. The lessons
   3. Audio files
2. Howto use our services
   1. Content of a lesson
   2. Add a new lesson
   3. Different types of lessons
   4. Audio recording

First of all, you should check if there already a language course for the given language exist. If there is such a course than you should not provide the same content twice. You better should provide different or additional content. If there is for example a basic course for absolute beginners, than you can add a course for special items.
Find a uncomplete item list below

• grammar rules
• business talk
• small talk conversation
• spare time topics
• culture items

Choose one of the items or start a new topic.

Before you begin with your writings and recordings, you are requested to inform us about the start of a new course. It is not a must, but if we know that you are like to do it we will harmonize the course title and put all of your lessons in an own folder.

In all of your lessons you should explain in detail what you are taking about. Try to follow the format of already existing lessons. Every lesson should have a length of about 3 to 5 minutes. Try to stay in this range.
A course for absolte beginners should have around 3-5 new words per lesson. Try to repeat the already learned words in later lessons as well.
Once you have a set of explained words, build new sentences with the already learned content and create new (smaller) lessons. There are some examples in

• Simple Sentences
• Very short stories
• Short stories

In this so called consolidation lessons you should also remark on base of which course lesson they are build.

All lessons of your course should have an audio file. Depending on the content you maybe record it together with a friend. This would be very good if you have dialogs between two or more people. It is not a fix requirement but the lessons will be much better to understand and easier to learn if you do.

Every lesson must deal with an main topic. The main topic shall be in the Script area of the lesson. Depending on lessons level the script can be very short or even very long. The script part should be also available as audio file.
The second part of the lesson is the Explain area. In this area the purpose of the lesson is explained. Try to explain as much as possible to make your lesson easy understandable.
The next two areas are Question and Answers. Every lesson should have this areas because the student can review the content of the lesson here. With good Q&A's it's possible to listen to the audio file only and than try to figure out the own level of listening by work on the Q&A's .

If you start with a new lesson you find an predefined example of the content file in the dialog box. For a lot of lessons this format is sufficient and it works pretty well.

Whenever you plan to provide a longer lesson this predefined example may not fit to your lesson. You can change it in any way you want.

If you want to provide a series of lessons with handle with the same topic you can do it as well. If you for example plan to provide a language course it would be usefull if all lessons of the course is grouped together. Because you can't goup  lessons together with the current software state you need to leave us a note. Inside our adminstration tool we can group your lessons.

Before you add a new lesson please take the time and think about some items

• Is there already a lesson which deals with this topic? 
  • YES: Maybe it'ss better to improve the existing lesson instead of starting a new one.
  • NO: Fine, start to prepare your lesson by answering the following questions to yourself
• What kind of level I want to deal with? The different level types are described below.
• Can I provide an audio file as well? In most of the cases you should provide it. Whenever learning a language, listening is a very important part. Once you write down your lesson you will see that it is not very difficult to provide an audio file too.

Most of the modern PC's and Laptops have an audio card on board. Unfortunately not all audio cards allow good recordings. Some of them deliver a lot of whooshing and whirring noise. 

See also: Audio Recording with the Windows Sound Recorder

For your audio recordings you should check that your voice is clear and understandable. All disturbing noise should be in the background.

Using a head-set for the recordings will be a cheap and good method. Also for Laptops, because in most of the cases the internal microphone didn't deliver very clear recordings.

Once your recording is successfully done convert the wave file into mp3. It is prefered to use 128kbit/s; 44100 Hz because this bitrate have a good quality and it can be also used to make the content available on the website (mp3-flash player).

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