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.

[dnaniell]

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

[howitzergun]

Me. I would like to learn some technical terminology and stuff. :)

Actually I want to learn as much as possible because all genres of text will become handy one day. :)

[Oiled Gazelles]

Duolingo needs to add more languages, I want to start Dutch.

[Oiled Gazelles]

I love Duolingo. I have been learning French in school for about seven months now; and in the two weeks I have used Duolingo I have learned more French than I have in all seven months of school.

[IllwaveProductions]

can't believe i just discovered this...

[wizzie47]

Seems that Duolingo will probably work only for non technical texts. Who would like to learn another language with technical texts such as annual reports, terms and conditions, contracts, technical documentation or even software interface?

[635574]

you run into one insurmountable obstacle: new content such as video, audio and images CANNOT be translated unless there is significant effort to do it. there is no way to get around the necessity of standardizing applied knowledge of english as globaly preferable format.

[1prettyricky]

im enjoying this

[Nellie K. Adaba]

Porque es Guatemalteco. Estoy de acuerdo contigo.

[Nellie K. Adaba]

I need to learn German. I speak French, English, Spanish, and some Italian.