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Duolingo Intro

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    It's a big world out there.
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    Billions of us trying to live, love, prosper,
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    and make sense of our brief time on this planet.
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    Since the dawn of humanity, we've been passing
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    information from one person to another through
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    a common language.
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    Unfortunately, you can't communicate with others
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    without knowing or learning their language first.
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    A similar issue is manifested on the web where
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    text can be penned in dozens of different languages,
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    each of which demands a reader's fluency.
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    We've developed an elegant solution to both
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    problems -- a way for you to learn a language for
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    free, while at the same time helping to translate
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    text from the web, enabling a wealth of
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    language-shackled information to be liberated for
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    all of humanity. It's called "duolingo".
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    Here's how it works: Let's say you're a native
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    English speaker who wants to learn Spanish.
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    We start by giving you a sentence from a Spanish
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    web site and asking you to translate it.
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    Wait. Back up.
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    How can you translate a language you don't know?
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    First, duolingo only gives you sentences that fit
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    your language level. Beginners get the really simple
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    sentences from the web and advanced users get the
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    more complex ones.
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    This way, everybody becomes a valuable translator.
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    And second, if you're really lost, you can always
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    see possible translations for words you don't know.
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    Afterwards, duolingo helps you understand and
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    memorize the words you hovered over through
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    educational examples.
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    You can also vote on the quality of other students'
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    translations, which helps you learn by seeing how
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    others translated the same sentence.
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    And because you create valuable translations while
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    you learn, we return the favor by offering duolingo
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    completely free of charge: no ads, no hidden fees,
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    no subscriptions. Just free.
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    To put the potential benefit of duolingo into
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    perspective, think about this: if one million
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    people would use duolingo to learn, the entirety
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    of English Wikipedia could be translated to Spanish
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    in just 80 hours.
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    Duolingo: Learn a language while translating the web.
Title:
Duolingo Intro
Description:

http://duolingo.com -- With Duolingo you learn a language for free, and simultaneously translate the Web. Video by Pomp&Clout.
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
02:05
Kevin Cole edited English subtitles for Duolingo Intro
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Kevin Cole edited English subtitles for Duolingo Intro
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