The founder of Duolingo is Luis Von Ahn. Von Ahn joined the Computer Science faculty at Carnegie Mellon when I was on the faculty of the Heinz College and the Statistics Department His wife was a colleague in the Heinz College.
Here is a really interesting interview of him: https://www.businessinsider.com/duolingo-luis-von-ahn-2018-4 George Duncan Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University georgeduncanart.com See posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Land: (505) 983-6895 Mobile: (505) 469-4671 My art theme: Dynamic exposition of the tension between matrix order and luminous chaos. "Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion." >From "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" by Richard Diebenkorn. "It's that knife-edge of uncertainty where we come alive to our truest power." Joanna Macy. On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 2:06 PM Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[email protected]> wrote: > When children live in multilingual environments and/or move from country > to country to face new languages they achieve to speak fluently several > languages at an very early age. I am not sure which one is the native > language of the children of my family. Maybe they have multiple native > languages. > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> When my daughter was grad student at Michigan she was told that it was >> almost impossible to speak both Spanish and Portuguese fluently. >> Ironically, her Mexican boyfriend who was a grad student in OR had lived in >> Brazil for many years. He was the exception. >> >> Frank >> >> ----------------------------------- >> Frank Wimberly >> >> My memoir: >> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly >> >> My scientific publications: >> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 >> >> Phone (505) 670-9918 >> >> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 12:27 PM Pamela McCorduck <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas. >>> >>> >>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> https://www.duolingo.com/ is an amazing website to learn many >>> languages. My mother language is Spanish and I am trying to learn Romanian >>> through English. It is fun. I also want to learn German and Portuguese to >>> speak to my nieces and nephew although they also speak Spanish and even >>> better than me. >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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