How LingoBits Makes Content

There are 3 principles behind the creation of Original LingoBits Content.

1. Easy Discovery
   (Currently the content library is small, but the plan is to grow this so you can always find something interesting in the language you’re learning).
2. Real Voices
   All content produced by LingoBits will use real voice actors (No AI).
3. Natural Speed
   Slow speaking is easy to understand, but it’s not good for practice. If you want to understand native speakers, you have to practice at a natural speed.

Starting Content Library

Content will focus on the Spanish language first and scale into other languages in the future.

Content Type #1 - Story

The first type is a story that follows an energetic girl named Maya.

Maya: Loves talking with people. She loves having fun and she can make any situation interesting.

Elena (Mother): She works as a school teacher. To Maya, she's a calm, relaxed mentor figure. Maya loves learning things from Elena.

Leo (Father): Works at a toy company. He's constantly talking with people to see what they think, so he could get new ideas.

Milo (the family dog): Maya's best friend.

This story mainly focuses on those four characters right now, but pretty soon Maya is going to go off to school and she's going to meet different people with different kinds of personalities.

Content Type #2 - Explore

Centers around People, Places and History.

Real history.

For example, a story of how one boy changed his entire village because he made a mask to join the local festival.

Or about a mysterious island in Mexico that is covered with dolls. It's a little creepy. But how did this island come to be?

These aren't going to be like Wikipedia entries.

The events and details are used to craft narratives so you can feel the stories rather than just read about them.

Writing Methodology

All content is written by humans.

Content Levels

All Original content is written in 2 levels (Beginner and Intermediate)

How are the levels made?

Each level follows 3 main characteristics

Vocabulary Difficulty:

Frequency Lists are used to grade the difficulty of vocabulary.

In other words, highly used words are more useful at beginner levels.

Acceptable Range (Outside of Frequency Lists):

Sometimes there are words that don’t have simpler forms (for example, cups, forks, and spoons)

Even if these terms are outside of the Word Frequency Range, they are still useful and required for the story to make sense.

Grammar Difficulty:

Different levels require different grammar use.

Beginner Level Requirements

• Word Frequency Range: 0 - 1200
• Limited % acceptable outside of list
• Simple grammar

Intermediate Level Requirements

• Word Frequency Range: 0 - 5000
• Limited % acceptable outside of list
• Natural grammar

Best (3-5% outside of list) - some leeway is given depending on the content.

Production Steps

(Note: Currently, the content is written in English first, then translated into Spanish, while maintaining intent and meaning)

1. Research

Especially for real stories - research is key.

Some AI is used for ideation, but validation with multiple sources is required before any writing is done.

2. Flow

To create an interesting story, the flow of the content is lined out first.

Multiple paths are created and the strongest version is chosen.

3. First Draft

Actual writing begins (at this point AI is avoided)

4. Editing

Multiple rounds of editing are done (either adding or taking away elements to make the story work better and add personality).

5. Leveling

In the previous steps, the version was written at a normal level (Intermediate). This step is to down level the content for the Beginner Level.

6. Translation

The initial translation is handled by AI, as it gets 95% to a complete version.

The other 5% is human verified.

This allows content to be natural and maintain the intent of the original.

7. Voice Acting

Voice actors are brought into voice each role.

(Also serves as another round of content review to ensure the content is natural).

8. Edit, Mix & Final Review

This is where the voices are brought together to create the full narrative. And it’s where everything is verified one last time to make sure the content and voices match up.

9. Upload

The content is ready to enjoy!