[FRIAM] Learn languages

[George Duncan]

The founder of Duolingo is Luis Von Ahn.

Von Ahn joined the Computer Science faculty at Carnegie Mellon when I was
on the faculty of the Heinz College and the Statistics Department His wife
was a colleague in the Heinz College.

Here is a really interesting interview of him:
https://www.businessinsider.com/duolingo-luis-von-ahn-2018-4

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On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 2:06 PM Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <alfredo at covaleda.co>
wrote:

> When children live in multilingual environments and/or move from country
> to country to face new languages they achieve to speak fluently several
> languages at an very early age. I am not sure which one is the native
> language of the children of my family. Maybe they have multiple native
> languages.
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:33 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> When my daughter was grad student at Michigan she was told that it was
>> almost impossible to speak both Spanish and Portuguese fluently.
>> Ironically, her Mexican boyfriend who was a grad student in OR had lived in
>> Brazil for many years.  He was the exception.
>>
>> Frank
>>
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>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 12:27 PM Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <alfredo at covaleda.co>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.duolingo.com/ is an amazing website to learn many
>>> languages. My mother language is Spanish and I am trying to learn Romanian
>>> through English. It is fun. I also want to learn German and Portuguese to
>>> speak to my nieces and nephew although they also speak Spanish and even
>>> better than me.
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