Goatlingo
Transparent by design
Goatlingo writes and reviews its own learner-facing teaching content. Some words in the curriculum were selected using openly licensed frequency data derived from the Yle Finnish News Archive and the Kotus modern Finnish word list.
What came from where
The first 1,000 curriculum entries were seeded by filtering a news-frequency dataset to nouns, verbs, and adjectives. News frequency is a selection signal, not a claim that these are universally the most useful Finnish words.
English meanings, explanations, learner notes, examples, inflections, visual cues, topic placement, and the evolving curriculum order are written and reviewed for Goatlingo.
Required attribution
Yle Uutisten taajuussanakirja — a news-based Finnish frequency dictionary, Daniel Radice, CC BY 4.0.
Derived from the Yle Finnish News Archive 2011–2024 (© Yle, CC BY 4.0, via Kielipankki) and the Kotus Nykysuomen sanalista (© Kotus, CC BY 4.0).
Changes made: Goatlingo filtered and merged the source records, initially limited the selection to qualifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and uses a separate product-specific curriculum order. All learner-facing teaching content is independently prepared for Goatlingo.
No endorsement by Yle, Kotus, Kielipankki, or the dataset author is implied.
Reproducibility
yle-content-words-v1The application preserves stable word IDs for saved progress. Future additions may use other documented sources and editorial selection methods.