Duolingo: The Next Chapter in Human Computation: Luis von Ahn at TEDxCMU 2011

Luis von Ahn, the man who brought the world CAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA unveiled his newest and most innovative project to date: Duolingo. How can you translate the entire internet and do it for free? Duolingo will be a revolutionary product in which millions of internet users from around the world will work together to translate the internet and learn a new language at the same time. All for free.

Luis von Ahn is the A. Nico Habermann Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He builds systems that combine humans and computers to solve large-scale problems that neither can solve alone.

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[FaruzLyte]

*einen

[charlesr456]

I know right.

I tried it today and the hype is completely justified.

Rosetta Stone is fucked.

[kerns teresa j]

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[Anna Gaukel]

I just started Duolingo today. I really like it.

[Lovemaxman1234]

Me too!

[Cole Henning]

Duolingo is so cool! I'm already learning German and Spanish in my free time!

[Roger Dinhelm]

esperanto is nowhere in near future, english rules

[zettatube]

duolingo don't have esperanto, fail, esperanto is the next step of human's evolution

[OMGWTFBBQCHEESEFRIES]

That's unusual, but very cool! I hope that you'll get the opportunity to learn it with Duolingo someday.

[makerwidow]

Started 24 hours ago, already learnt more Italian then I did in formal class.

[dnaniell]

Ich habe gelernt english von youtube, jetz ich bin deutsch lernen von Duolingo, und ich hab' gesagt meine freunden.