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In the least, teaching Mandarin should be a higher priority than half the languages they support.
Great to see them doing so well. Personally, I'd like to see language learning apps explore the parts of language learning that Duolingo isn't good at. Also a high-quality, open source version of Duo would be awesome for super minority, low infrastructure, and/or conlang languages.
In order to pull in $50m revenue per year, Duolingo are going to need to sell 2,500,000 certifications. Is that doable?
$50 million seems like an arbitrary amount of revenue to expect DuoLingo to pull in. How do you come up with that number?
Only complaint is they appear to have no priority in supporting languages of the East, where the majority of the world lives. I guess their main demo, at least at one point, was Western students, who aren't typically taught those languages in school. In the least, teaching Mandarin should be a higher priority than half the languages they support.
Anybody else feel a little nervous when a free language tool is valued in the hundreds of millions?
Duolingo is started by Luis von Ahn who invented reCAPTCHA. He pioneered the field of human computation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx082gDwGcM . He can monetize this in a similar way. Crowd sourced translation service where the more advanced language learners translate books or something. It will be higher quality than google translate for sure.
"As a company spokesperson told me, the company actually tabled its ambitions around translations about a year and a half ago and hasn’t scaled the businesses or accepted new clients"
Still waiting for their Russian course!
Only complaint is they appear to have no priority in supporting languages of the East, where the majority of the world lives. I guess their main demo, at least at one point, was Western students, who aren't typically taught those languages in school. In the least, teaching Mandarin should be a higher priority than half the languages they support.
They do teach English to speakers of Chinese, Mandarin and Hindi.
[一] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chineseski...
[二] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pleco.chin...
Only complaint is they appear to have no priority in supporting languages of the East, where the majority of the world lives. I guess their main demo, at least at one point, was Western students, who aren't typically taught those languages in school. In the least, teaching Mandarin should be a higher priority than half the languages they support.
Still waiting for their Russian course!