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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

and the same number in the U.K. So I'm very happy with that.

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

and the same number in the U.K. So I'm very happy with that.

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

We do, and we try to add the culture. We don't

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

We do, and we try to add the culture. We don't

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

We do, and we try to add the culture. We don't

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

we don't do it as much as maybe we should you know we try to stick mostly with languages and it depends also on the language that we're doing some languages are quite tight to the culture some are less you know spanish is a good example i mean there are i don't know the number but 20 some countries that speak spanish and some of them are pretty different than others so you know we do a little bit of culture but we try not to be like oh you're learning spanish you're uh you know

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

we don't do it as much as maybe we should you know we try to stick mostly with languages and it depends also on the language that we're doing some languages are quite tight to the culture some are less you know spanish is a good example i mean there are i don't know the number but 20 some countries that speak spanish and some of them are pretty different than others so you know we do a little bit of culture but we try not to be like oh you're learning spanish you're uh you know

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

we don't do it as much as maybe we should you know we try to stick mostly with languages and it depends also on the language that we're doing some languages are quite tight to the culture some are less you know spanish is a good example i mean there are i don't know the number but 20 some countries that speak spanish and some of them are pretty different than others so you know we do a little bit of culture but we try not to be like oh you're learning spanish you're uh you know

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

a Mexican person with a sombrero. Like, we try not to do that. I mean, we also have to be, you know, not offensive and stuff like that. But we try to add it a little bit. I would say it's not the primary goal.

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

a Mexican person with a sombrero. Like, we try not to do that. I mean, we also have to be, you know, not offensive and stuff like that. But we try to add it a little bit. I would say it's not the primary goal.

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

a Mexican person with a sombrero. Like, we try not to do that. I mean, we also have to be, you know, not offensive and stuff like that. But we try to add it a little bit. I would say it's not the primary goal.

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

So let's see. It's been very much on purpose for us to not put humans in the app, as in human teachers. There's nothing wrong with human teachers. It's just the case that, you know, from the beginning, we've been a technology company and we've wanted to make it so that technology teaches you. There's a couple of reasons for that.

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

So let's see. It's been very much on purpose for us to not put humans in the app, as in human teachers. There's nothing wrong with human teachers. It's just the case that, you know, from the beginning, we've been a technology company and we've wanted to make it so that technology teaches you. There's a couple of reasons for that.

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

So let's see. It's been very much on purpose for us to not put humans in the app, as in human teachers. There's nothing wrong with human teachers. It's just the case that, you know, from the beginning, we've been a technology company and we've wanted to make it so that technology teaches you. There's a couple of reasons for that.

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

One is just it's a lot cheaper to teach you with technology than with a human teacher. The other thing is it turns out somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of language learners just don't want to talk to another human. They may tell you they do, but they don't. And it's because when you're learning a language, you're pretty shy about it.

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

One is just it's a lot cheaper to teach you with technology than with a human teacher. The other thing is it turns out somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of language learners just don't want to talk to another human. They may tell you they do, but they don't. And it's because when you're learning a language, you're pretty shy about it.

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

One is just it's a lot cheaper to teach you with technology than with a human teacher. The other thing is it turns out somewhere between 80 and 90 percent of language learners just don't want to talk to another human. They may tell you they do, but they don't. And it's because when you're learning a language, you're pretty shy about it.

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

And only the extreme extroverts are okay talking to a stranger on video in a language that they're not very good. The majority of people just won't do it. I mean, we've actually done these research studies over the years where, because over time, you know, we thought maybe we should add humans, maybe we should humans.

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

And only the extreme extroverts are okay talking to a stranger on video in a language that they're not very good. The majority of people just won't do it. I mean, we've actually done these research studies over the years where, because over time, you know, we thought maybe we should add humans, maybe we should humans.

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

And only the extreme extroverts are okay talking to a stranger on video in a language that they're not very good. The majority of people just won't do it. I mean, we've actually done these research studies over the years where, because over time, you know, we thought maybe we should add humans, maybe we should humans.