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General Questions: What is LingoHut? What languages do you teach? Do I need to become a member of LingoHut? Who can use LingoHut? Why are all your letters are in lower case? My screen does not seem to display foreign characters correctly Student Questions: Does it cost money to take lessons? Can I take lessons without an account? Can I take lessons anytime of the day? How do I know what lessons are offered? How do I take lessons? How does LingoHut determine the quality of the lesson? Who rates the lessons? Can I rate a lesson more than once? What if I find vulgar or inappropriate language? Why do I need an account? What happens when I set up an account? Will you share any of my information? I did not receive a confirmation email? How do I log out? Can I take lesson in any language? What can I find in the learning center? Are instructors accredited? Are the instructors paid for posting their lessons? Does LingoHut provide the materials? Are there any additional books or materials with the lessons? I forgot my password? Technical Questions: What do I do if I am having trouble accessing the lessons? Why is my sound not working when taking a lesson? I do not hear myself when using Voice Lab Why do I get a dialog box that says: "Please wait.... The application is closing. This may take a few seconds."? What is the Adobe Flash Player? Notice about Zone Alarm What browsers do you support? Can I advertise on LingoHut? My question is not listed above

Instructor Questions: How much does it cost to become an instructor? What can I do with LingoHut? How do I start teaching? I have a student account can I become a teacher now? When can I start posting lessons? What type of subject can my lessons be about? How do I post a lesson? How do I type foreign characters? How do I record a sound? How do I upload a sound? I am having problem uploading a sound any ideas? How many phrase or words can I post in a specific lesson? Is the title of the lessons important? How many lessons can I post? How will the lessons be sorted? What if I find vulgar or inappropriate language? Who determines if a lesson is deleted from the network? I forgot my password? Do I have to be certified to be an instructor? Can I change my email address? Can I change my password? Can people see my email address? Can a student contact me directly? How do I edit my profile page? Can I know who's viewing my profile or how often it's being viewed? Can people that find me in search click on my profile?

It is a do it yourself foreign language education network. LingoHut can teach all languages. All our lessons are posted by foreign language instructors. This gives us the opportunity to offer any language instructors post. Do you know an instructor that can contribute lessons to our network? Tell them about LingoHut.com. No. Students can learn at LingoHut without an account or becoming a member. Only LingoHut instructors have to be a member. If you want to be an instructor, you can sign up here Anyone. LingoHut wanted to be atypical and hip. Lowercase letters are cool.

No, LingoHut is completely free. Yes you can. You are welcome to take all the lessons without an account, although LingoHut encourages you to set up a free account to keep you on track. Absolutely -- learn anytime 24/7. Click on learn or start learning. Fill out the search fields in our “search our library” and find out what exciting lessons are available. You also can click on our teacher directory to view the lessons. Come often to visit us, our instructors post lessons daily Click on learn on the menu bar or start learning. Fill out the appropriate search fields to find the lessons you are looking for in our library. Once you find the lesson, click on the lesson and start learning. By the rating the lesson receives. We leave that up to the student. We encourage all students to review and rate all the lessons they take. Students with a free LingoHut account provide the ratings. The student rates a lesson by giving it coconuts. 5 coconuts are a high score, 1 coconut is a low score. Students can flag lessons as inappropriate or offensive. Set up your free account here You can only rate a lesson once. We only keep your first rating. LingoHut wants you to tell us IMMEDIATELY. Contact us or click on the flag as inappropriate link above the lesson. We do not tolerate inappropriate language. It nice to have an account with LingoHut we keep records of your favorite and your last activities on the account. Helping you keep organized while learning a new language. Create your free account. You will receive a confirmation email, please follow the instructions. Once you have confirmed you will be able to log on and start tracking your lessons. No we do not share any of your information with a third party. If you didn't receive the confirmation email, check in your email client's spam folder— some spam filters are more aggressive than others in identifying spam. If you cannot find it, come back to LingoHut and log on to your account and resubmit to receive another email. If you still not receiving it please contact us. Click log out on the top menu bar. Yes, LingoHut encourages you to step out of your safety zone and learn any language you would like. You can search our library. You can search for specific lessons by language, grade and learning level. You also can search by teacher or search by highest rated lessons for the week. LingoHut does not require the instructors to have any specific type of accreditation. Anyone with the skills of speaking a second language can post lessons to share with people from all over the world. No this is a goodwill project. Giving everyone the opportunity to learn another language. No each instructor posts his or her own content and materials. No. There are no additional books or materials with the lessons. You need to know your email address to retrieve your password. Click here to retrieve your password. You will receive your password via e-mail.

Nothing, LingoHut is completely free You can teach any world language. As an instructor you will design fully interactive lessons for students. You can post vocabulary lessons in our exclusive audio/visual system. Your lessons will automatically have activities built into them. You will build your own language lab. You must register first to be a teacher at LingoHut. If you DO NOT already have a student account, click here to start teaching. If you are already have a student account log in to your account first and then click on to become a teacher Yes, log in to your account first and then click on to become a teacher Once you have registered with LingoHut.com, we will approve your account. This approval can take up to 72 hours. LingoHut will send you an email to let you know that your account has been approved. You are then welcome to start posting lessons. Each instructor posts his or her own content and materials. The lessons can be on any subject as long as there is no racism, vulgar or inappropriate language. In this video we show you how to create a lesson and enter vocabulary. Once the vocabulary is entered, click here for instructions on how to upload sounds.



Gate2home.com has a wonderful keyboard utility. Click here to open up a new window to http://www.gate2home.com/ In this video we show you how to record a sound using Wavepad (click here for instructions on where to download Wavepad).



In this video we show you how to upload a sound file.



Is the file too large? Contact us and we will help you out. LingoHut prefers you to have a minimum of 12 phrases or words and a maximum of 30 phrases or words. Yes, LingoHut uses the title to catalog it for the search the student do. We recommend you are specific in the title; it will make it easier for students to find the lessons. Cute and catchy titles might get lost and not found easily by students. You are welcome to post as many lessons as you would like to have in your library. The student rating will sort the lessons. Your highest rated lessons will appear on the top. LingoHut wants you to tell us IMMEDIATELY. Contact us or click on the flag as inappropriate link above the lesson. We do not tolerate inappropriate language. LingoHut has sole discretion on the determining if a lesson is appropriate or not. LingoHut will have the right to delete any lesson with out notice to the instructor. You need to know your email address to retrieve your password. Click here to retrieve your password. You will receive your password via e-mail. No, anyone can post lessons to teach foreign language. Yes you can. Log on to your account and on that page under contact information you can change your email address. Yes No, this is only used for our records LingoHut currently does not provide a way that allows users to email or contact you directly LingoHut currently does not provide a way that allows users to track profile views or statistics on the views of any specific user content. Yes; however, no additional information is shared outside of what is already publicly available. The search makes it easier for students and other people you know to find your lessons quickly.

Close all your browser windows. Log in one more time and try again. If you are still having trouble, you can contact us here. In order for us to help you, we will need you to include as much information as you can. Please include the text of any error message you receive and indicate what you were trying to do when the error message appeared. Make sure your speakers are turned on and plugged in. Also check your volume setting in Windows by clicking: Start > Programs > Accessories > Entertainment > Volume control. Make sure "Mute" or "Mute all" is not selected and then adjust the volume and balance controls to the levels you prefer. If you still do not have sound, your PC may have anti-virus or anti-spyware programs that may be blocking some of the content. Try turning off your anti-virus or anti-spyware functions and see if this resolves the problem. If this resolves the problem, try setting your anti-virus or anti spyware at a level that allows the content of our courses to be accessed by your computer. If you still do not have sound, please contact us. Make sure your microphone is plugged in. Also check your microphone settings in Windows by clicking: Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Manage Audio Devices. Select the "Recording" tab. Select the active microphone and click on properties. Set the level to 100 and the Boost to 0.0 dB. Make sure the microphone is not muted. See image below.
This message is the result of closing a lesson window while the program is loading. The window will not close until the program load is either complete or terminated properly. Click on the "OK" button to try closing the window again. It may take up to 45 seconds to terminate the connection if you are a dial-up user. We use Adobe Flash to deliver lesson content. Adobe Flash is a commonly used web browser plug-in and is generally considered safe. To learn more click the Adobe site. We require Adobe Flash 6.0 or higher. You can download the most current version here. Zone Alarm Internet security software can prevent some or the entire lesson to be disabled depending of your privacy setting. Please update your Zone Alarm privacy settings to allow our lessons to be played. See www.ZoneAlarm.com for more information. Notice about internet content filters and pop-up blockers Some internet content filters, such as "Cyber Sitter," may block the sample lesson. You will need to reset your software filter to allow the sample lesson to play. Please note all of our lessons use Adobe Flash. Because some pop-up blockers stop Adobe Flash programs, you will need to turn-off your pop-up blocker to enable the lesson to play. Notice about PCSecurityShield/The Shield Antivirus and Firewall Depending on its settings, PCSecurityShield Internet security software can prevent the Flash application from running properly. Please update your PCSecurityShield settings to allow our lessons to be played. Click > Start > Programs > The Shield Firewall. Next, the Firewall settings are displayed. Click on POP-UP SHIELD and remove the check mark from the "Filter Flashes" setting. See here for an image of the Firewall settings for The Shield Firewall. We are compatible with the major browsers in use today. We have tested our site with the latest versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera. At this time we are looking for ONE sponsor to have exclusive rights to all the advertising on the site. This is a great opportunity for a corporation to offer a good will project. Contact us if you are interested. If the box below displays question marks, blank boxes, or other strange characters, you have to change your settings to view Chinese and other special characters. This is what you do (these instructions are for Windows XP, but it is essentially the same on other versions of windows):

1. Access the Control Panel by clicking on Start > Settings > Control Panel. In the Control Panel, double click on "Regional and Language Options."

2. Click on the Languages tab. Click on the check boxes marked "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages" and "Install files for East Asian languages" and click OK.

3. Click OK in the "Install Supplemental Language" alert box, and then click on OK in the Regional and Language Options dialog box.

4. Once the installation process starts, you will be prompted to insert the Windows XP installation disk which has the language support files. Insert the Windows XP installation CD, or if you have the language support files in another location, browse to the files and click OK. The language support files will be installed on your computer and you will be asked to restart the computer.

5. Click Yes to restart the computer.

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