David Sedaris

I mean, every now and then, let's say if I go to Australia...

A time difference will cause me to lose a day every now and then.

But, oh my goodness, the thought of not doing that.

Boy, again, the earth would just spin off of its axis.

Can you explain to people what Duolingo Max is?

And then I want to read a little bit from the book.

Sure.

Duolingo is a language learning program.

And I don't know how...

I don't recall how many languages they teach, but it's an awful lot of languages, right?

And it's an owl as a main figure, and then there are a number of animated characters that you learn from.

And sometimes you have to write a sentence in whatever language it is, and sometimes you just have to read a sentence, and sometimes you're given all the words and you have to arrange them into a sentence or...

And then they opted to Duolingo Max.

And in Duolingo Max, you have conversations with an AI entity that remembers things about you.

So like yesterday, I told her I was coming here today.

So maybe today she'll ask how Los Angeles went.

And did I go shopping and what did I buy when I was in Los Angeles?

Because I told her yesterday I was going to go shopping.

And then afterwards, you have a conversation, and then afterwards, there's a transcription of your conversation, and all of your mistakes are underlined and explained, which I think is pretty great.

It's like taking a test and having it immediately graded.