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Luis Von Ahn

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Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

By far, English is the most popular. 45% of our active users are learning English. The second is Spanish, and the third is French. And then there's a big drop-off after that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

By far, English is the most popular. 45% of our active users are learning English. The second is Spanish, and the third is French. And then there's a big drop-off after that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

By far, English is the most popular. 45% of our active users are learning English. The second is Spanish, and the third is French. And then there's a big drop-off after that.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah. I mean, the US is about 20% of our users, and 80% is international.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah. I mean, the US is about 20% of our users, and 80% is international.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Yeah. I mean, the US is about 20% of our users, and 80% is international.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

About 45% are trying to learn English. It turns out in international, they also want to learn other languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

About 45% are trying to learn English. It turns out in international, they also want to learn other languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

About 45% are trying to learn English. It turns out in international, they also want to learn other languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

We definitely do some of that. We don't do it as, I don't know, I was going to say as much as we should, but I don't know if that's the case. We don't do it commensurately with the number of users, because then we would probably spend all our resources on English and Spanish and French. So certainly, you know, we spend the majority of our resources in the top eight languages to learn.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

We definitely do some of that. We don't do it as, I don't know, I was going to say as much as we should, but I don't know if that's the case. We don't do it commensurately with the number of users, because then we would probably spend all our resources on English and Spanish and French. So certainly, you know, we spend the majority of our resources in the top eight languages to learn.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

We definitely do some of that. We don't do it as, I don't know, I was going to say as much as we should, but I don't know if that's the case. We don't do it commensurately with the number of users, because then we would probably spend all our resources on English and Spanish and French. So certainly, you know, we spend the majority of our resources in the top eight languages to learn.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And then we spend very little resource outside of that. The top eight are English, Spanish, and French. Then there is German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, I think, and Chinese. I think those are the top eight. Hopefully that's eight.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And then we spend very little resource outside of that. The top eight are English, Spanish, and French. Then there is German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, I think, and Chinese. I think those are the top eight. Hopefully that's eight.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

And then we spend very little resource outside of that. The top eight are English, Spanish, and French. Then there is German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, I think, and Chinese. I think those are the top eight. Hopefully that's eight.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Mandarin, Mandarin. And that's it. That's the top eight. And after that, there really is a huge drop-off. So we have languages, even large languages. For example, we have Arabic. Arabic is a large language. Not that many people are learning Arabic. So we do put some resources there, but it's much less than for the larger languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Mandarin, Mandarin. And that's it. That's the top eight. And after that, there really is a huge drop-off. So we have languages, even large languages. For example, we have Arabic. Arabic is a large language. Not that many people are learning Arabic. So we do put some resources there, but it's much less than for the larger languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

Mandarin, Mandarin. And that's it. That's the top eight. And after that, there really is a huge drop-off. So we have languages, even large languages. For example, we have Arabic. Arabic is a large language. Not that many people are learning Arabic. So we do put some resources there, but it's much less than for the larger languages.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

We don't.

Decoder with Nilay Patel
Duolingo CEO Luis Von Ahn wants you addicted to learning

We don't.