- New quiz mode toggle in quick settings - New ChatGPT functions that can generate story from saved words and explain words in the dictionary - Enhanced UI and functionality on various pages, such as media home and history view - Added ability to choose precise search terms when looking for video clips matching a certain word - Turn quick gloss on/off - Show grammar points next to Korean text - Ability to learn French and Japanese from Chinese - Simplified dashboard display - Improvements to SRT import - More UI localizations - Bug fixes and optimizations to improve performance

What’s new in Language Player 2.8.2 since 2.4.11 - TV show episodes list: add the ability to sort by views (sort by popularity) - Feature more popular content on the home page, and show most popular videos by default throughout - Improved quizzes: paginate through questions - Add the ability to import videos, and add an import bookmarklet - Show suggested videos in the video player - Improvement: Arabic lemmatization - Allow non-admin users to add SRT subs - Add the option for the user to edit annotated text - Improvement to pagination behavior of saved words in the dictionary - Add the ability to view auto-generated subtitles - Add the ability to smooth scroll - Tools for linguists: phonological features

What’s new in Language Player 2.4.11 (Sep 21, 2022) - Popup dictionary: when the user scrolls inside a popup, the “close” (X) button now sticks to the top right corner (rather than scrolling away) - Fix bug: errors on the home page - Fix bug: mini player controls should not have black background. What’s new in Language Player 2.4.10 (Sep 12, 2022) - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.9 (Sep 10, 2022) - Chinese: Show HSK 7-9 grammar notes under annotated text - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.8 (Sep 7, 2022) - In the subtitles context menu, show translator links and quick settings - Japanese: add wiktionary to popup dictionary entries - Chinese: make HSK word lists load faster - Bug fixes

What’s new in Language Player 2.4.7 (30 Aug, 2022) - Fix pop quizzes and text size adjustment - Other bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.6 (28 Aug, 2022) - Improvement: Subtitles search: add video information button “i” - Improvements to the Korean dictionary (remove ‘-‘ in suffix word head) - Fix bug: YouTube video loses interactivity after minimizing and maximizing - Other bug fixes

What’s new in Language Player 2.4.5 (25 Aug, 2022) - Fall 2022 Sale at 50% off - Fix iOS in-app purchase - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.4 (24 Aug, 2022) - Admin feature: improvements to the Reels mode in Dictionary video search - Backend: Change PayPal account - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.3 (22 Aug, 2022) - Improvements: video player controls are more spaced out on larger screens, a new settings button is added to allow the users to toggle annotation settings, as well as auto-pause and playback speed - Update Capacitor from version 3 to version 4 - Improvement: Native back button should navigate back rather than close the app - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.2 (21 Aug, 2022) - New: AutoPause – pause the video automatically after each line - Improvement: text size is automatically increased to fill the available space, especially on vertical screens (e.g. phones) - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.4.1 (20 Aug, 2022) - New: Content recommendation based on user’s language level and preferred categories - Improvement: Settings now sync across devices What’s new in Language Player 2.3.2 (16 Aug, 2022) - Improvement: Player controls - make controls always visible, add progress bar with time display What’s new in Language Player 2.3.1 (7 Aug, 2022) - Improvement: New video player controls - Improvement: Play video in fullscreen by default - Improvement: Add legend to language map - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.2.8 (6 Aug, 2022) - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.2.7 (3 Aug, 2022) - Remove jquery 1.4 from the korean_conjugations package - Bug fixes and internal features What’s new in Language Player 2.2.6 (2 Aug, 2022) - Improve home page layout, and add some Chinese-translated text on the home page - Bug fixes for native platform What’s new in Language Player 2.2.5 (1 Aug, 2022) - Platform compatibility - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.2.4 (31 July, 2022) - Improvement: Swedish and Estonian popup dictionary are much better at finding root words - Improvement: Subtitles search - Subtitles do not flicker as much during playback - Improvement: A redesigned homepage with an intro video - Improvement: Users are automatically imported into MailerLite upon registration - New admin feature: Subtitles search now can be viewed in “reels mode” for a quick screen recording for Instagram Reels What’s new in Language Player 2.2.3 (27 July, 2022) - New: TV Shows and YouTube Channels now display the locale of the video, e.g. French (France) vs French (Canada). - Improvement: Feedback button now lets you fill out a form instead of opening the email client directly - Improvement: Videos that are unavailable or of the wrong language have been removed - Bug fix: Spanish section often crashes due to large dictionary size - Bug fixes What’s new in Language Player 2.2.2 (24 July, 2022) - New: Learning path now has links to phrasebook for the lower levels - New: Video player now displays how many views, likes, comments the video has, as well as the locale of the video, e.g. French (France), French (Canada) - Improvement: quick settings popup now has a link to full settings page

- App name changed from “Zero to Hero” to “Language Player” - New UI: redesigned and restructured navigation menu and top bar. as well as better, more abstract backgrounds that change every day. TV shows and YouTube channel thumbnails now show up as “decks”. New floating feedback button. - Browse videos by popularity (number of views). This feature currently supports Cantonese, Korean, Russian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French and Vietnamese. - Take pop quizzes every few minutes while watching the video. - Look up Arabic words much easier. The Arabic popup dictionary now finds dictionary forms (lemmas) much better - More powerful Chinese popup dictionary: Now you can see phrases associated with a word, words that are mentioned in the definition of another word (e.g. the definition of 殒落 is “see 陨落” - the popup dictionary now looks up the second word 陨落 automatically) - Simplified language selection from the dashboard - Dictionary video search (captions search) is much faster and consumes only a fraction of the bandwidth - A new "Kids" section - Better icons (upgraded from Font Awesome 5 Free to Font Awesome 6 Pro) - Much faster, fewer bugs.

What’s new in Zero to Hero 1.1.5 - New feature: iOS users can now upgrade to Pro via in-app purchase - Change: update Chinese Zero to Hero intro video What’s new in Zero to Hero 1.1.4 - New feature: users can delete their account - Change: cleaner top bar – annotation settings in the top bar are now grouped under a cog icon, remove ‘forward’ button - Change: Media home page sectioned re-ordered to reflect content popularity - Change: Reader now uses markdown by default rather than wysiwyg, which is buggy - Change: Add a intro video to the home screen - Bug fixes What's new in Zero to Hero 1.1.3 - Change: Use a new logo that looks like a play button with a speech bubble on top and a globe at the bottom - New feature: in Reading > Reader and in Reading > Books, when you tap on a sentence, that sentence is highlighted, and the corresponding translation of that line is also highlighted - Improvement: better Chinese UI translations What's new in Zero to Hero 1.1.2 - Improvement: Smart History - When you launch the app or website, we now automatically redirect you where you were the last time you used it. If you were reading page 17 of the Great Gatsby in Reading > Books, for example, we will automatically redirect you back to that page next time you log on. What's new in Zero to Hero 1.1.1 - Improvement - faster dictionary lookup for languages that use Wiktionary (French, Spanish, English, German, Italian etc.) - Improvement - iOS: make it easier to “reactivate” the app after its been inactive for a while - improvement: on mobile layouts, the bottom navigation bar is now always visible What's new in Zero to Hero 1.1.0 - New feature - Quick Gloss: When you save a word, a short definition of the word appears next to the word - New feature - Dictionary: a new “Phrases” tab now shows multi-word phrases that contain this word (available for German, Italian, French and Spanish) - Improvement - Phrasebooks: popular and commonly used phrasebooks are now featured on the top - Improvement - Media > Songs: the videos shown on the page are more random, rather than always showing the same set - Improvement - on mobile layouts, top navigation bar is now always visible - Improvement - Media > All: Bring back the media browse interface, move the feed to a new nav item: Media > Feed - Bug fixes What's new in Zero to Hero 1.0.19 - New feature - My Bookshelf: now you can save books to your bookshelf and continue reading where you’ve left off - New feature - Web Reader: read web pages by entering an url - Improvement - Reader: make URL sharing easier, better reader layout for wikipedia text, improved appearance of links, pagination can go to arbitrary page - Bug fixes What's new in Zero to Hero 1.0.18 - New feature: Reader and My Text - Logged in users can save multiple text and read them later - New feature: Reader now uses a rich-text editor - Bug fixes and refactoring What's new in Zero to Hero 1.0.17 - New feature: see live TV channel recommendations in Feed - Improvement - Reader: improve vocabulary list layout - Improvement - Popup Dictionary: word lemma with gloss should be shown first before conjugated forms - Improvement - Live TV styling and layout - Bug fixes and refactoring What's new in Zero to Hero 1.0.16 - New feature: password reset – users can now retrieve lost passwords - Bug fixes, performance gains, and refactoring

What's new since 1.0.13 - Quizzes in video player: aggregate all quizzes to the end of the video rather than popping up many times in the transcript. - Video transcript: Show line breaks within each line (for example, in the case of music lyrics). Increase translation font size in video transcript - Reader: do not show Speak bar unless the browser/device supports text-to-speech in that language. - Navigation bar: move "Courses" ahead of "Media" (English and Chinese languages only) - Bug fixes What’s new in 1.0.12 - Reader: You can now create a shareable link by tapping on the “share” icon in the tool bar - Reader: show vocabulary list at the end, show links to many different online translators - Books and Reader: the text-to-speech bar now has a speed adjustment button to allow you to adjust the rate of speech - Profile & progress: Add the ability to remove languages from your dashboard, show your saved words and watch history - Top bar: you can now adjust text sizes by tapping on the big T or the small T. - Video Player: add a “share” button below the video title - Chinese Dictionary: create a separate tab for “Mistakes” - Home page: add an app store badge. - Bug fixes: Text-to-speech bar isn’t reading some numbers of punctuations, Chinese dictionary tabs messed up, Chinese dictionary error messages, and many other bugs What's new in 1.0.11 - Video lists: make video thumbnails smaller on phones so they show up as two columns - Reader: add speech bar - Nav bar: regroup and simplify navigation to only 5 menu items (or 6 items for Chinese and English) - Language switch: show dashboard on top, then 9 common languages, followed by all other languages - Home screen: new layout featuring 8 common languages, add login and logout links - Bug fixes: user cannot register; time autologging on multiple devices may overwrite one another What's new in 1.0.10 - Video player: episode navigation bar can better handle large shows with more than 100 episodes - Improve performance by making fewer networking calls when loading videos and shows - Disqus discussion: merge discussions for all languages into a single discussion board - Bug fixes What's new in 1.0.9 - inline translation: tap on "..." next to any line, then from the menu tap the translation icon, then translation will appear next to the current line - add privacy policy - bug fixes