One fact we're particularly proud of is that there are more people learning languages on Duolingo in the US than there are people learning languages in the entire US public school system.
Luis von AhnThe current business model for language education is the student pays โ in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the worldโs population doesnโt have $500.
Luis von AhnI worked on a number of projects that were used by millions of people and that also served as inspiration to what we now call "crowd-sourcing."
Luis von AhnBefore the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.
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