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How did you find out about Duolingo?
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Luis´ TED talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html) in which he presented how Duolingo was started via RECAPTURE, and the idea to translate the web. His enthusiasm convinced me...
Believe it or not, I was playing Minecraft at the time, when a friend whom I was playing with, started speaking Spanish. I was frustrated because I couldn't understand him, and every so often I would ask him to translate for me, which he did. We sort of got talking, and he mentioned Duolingo, and I decided to check it out. And now, I'm here!
LOL yah. I'm kinda a Minecraft Freak and play for hours on end! XD
Luis TED: My Favorite Talk by far http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration.html
Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose "the random show - episode 18" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHaMAlvzTpM&feature=share&list=ULgHaMAlvzTpM
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From the original TED "Presentation" which you made -- "Massive-scale online collaboration"
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I heard about Duolingo from a friend. He showed me the Ted talk and I was very interested. I have wanted to learn Spanish for a long time and suddenly here was the perfect opportunity to take it up and try out a new idea at the same time :)
my son told me about another language site, memrise, which he found on http://noexcuselist.com/ and when I went to that site I found Duolingo
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Browsing apps for leaning Spanish on my ipad i saw how good the ratings were and decided try it. Glad i did it is now my favorite app i have for learning Spanish and I like that im not limited to using it on my ipad.
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Browsing apps for leaning Spanish on my ipad i saw how good the ratings were and decided try it. Glad i did it is now my favorite app i have for learning Spanish and I like that im not limited to using it on my ipad.
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Browsing apps for leaning Spanish on my ipad i saw how good the ratings were and decided try it. Glad i did it is now my favorite app i have for learning Spanish and I like that im not limited to using it on my ipad.
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Browsing apps for leaning Spanish on my ipad i saw how good the ratings were and decided try it. Glad i did it is now my favorite app i have for learning Spanish and I like that im not limited to using it on my ipad.
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Browsing apps for leaning Spanish on my ipad i saw how good the ratings were and decided try it. Glad i did it is now my favorite app i have for learning Spanish and I like that im not limited to using it on my ipad.
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Browsing apps for leaning Spanish on my ipad i saw how good the ratings were and decided try it. Glad i did it is now my favorite app i have for learning Spanish and I like that im not limited to using it on my ipad.
you are genius reCaptcha man...I am big fan of yours .... I like Duolingo very much I come to know from Tech crunch, Youtube video..... I was actually searching for Google Image Labeler game which I played few months back then i come to know it is now discontinued by google ..... then i come to know you are inventor of that game ..then my interest increase and i searched your name in google and found your Wiki page and then I youtube your name and found ted talks video and from that I come to know about Duolingo...after long research journey I come to know about Duolingo :)
I read about it in the NYTimes and tried it immediately. I was frustrated by bugs in the system and gave up on it immediately. I came back to it a month or two later and some bugs had been worked out. Recently I have become frustrated again so am laying off a bit, but you seem to keep working on the site!
I participate in a Forum called SketchUcation. It is a friendly cooperative site based on the use of a program called Sketchup. The administrator mentioned in a subforum that he had seen the TED talk and that Duolingo was looking for beta participants. The fact that this venture was all about cooperative effort (give to get) and its stated purpose to help translate the web is what got me interested.
A blog post I stumbled upon: http://www.uberlin.co.uk/learn-german-with-duolingo/ Not sure how I got there to begin with, of course!
Saw duolingo new app come up in appshopper.com, then was disappointed it was online only and then discovered the computer version. Still hoping for a bit of offline functionality for my ipod touch though.
I have a page of RSS feeds devoted to news about learning languages. One of them is a google search feed. In there I saw an article about Duolingo acquiring a $17 million investor or some such. I know some French so gave it a try, but the language I'm really interested in at the moment is Chinese. Any word on when that will be added?
I read about duolingo on coursera.org. Someone suggested it to learn languages. A month later I am already on French Level 8. Thanks to every one who makes Duolingo happen !
I was looking for learning language apps, and Duolingo was there :)
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Si la memoria no me falla I think I was looking for a brazillian portuguese course and somehow I chanced upon DL.