How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us?
May 01, 2023
It's easier to read the Steve Dodson's excerpts in LanguageHat. He links right away and quotes at length Carina Chocano's New Yorker article (archived) about Luis von Ahn, the founder of Duolingo. For the last few weeks I've been using Duolingo to actually apply myself and learn Spanish (I mean, really, it's about time I did). What pushed me to take the leap was the announcement of a conversational interface with GPT-4 to immerse myself in different scenarios; I haven't actually used that yet, but there will come a time when it pushes me from basic knowledge to something like fluency (I should probably use it in French as well to refresh my knowledge of that language). Anyhow, I'm making progress. ¡Hasta la vista!
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