Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread 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 
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 
> 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
>>
>> ---
>> Frank Wimberly
>>
>> My memoir:
>> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>>
>> My scientific publications:
>> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>>
>> Phone (505) 670-9918
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 12:27 PM Pamela McCorduck  wrote:
>>
>>> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
>>> 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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Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
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  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
>
> ---
> Frank Wimberly
>
> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
> Phone (505) 670-9918
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 12:27 PM Pamela McCorduck  wrote:
>
>> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
>> 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.
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>
>>
>> 
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Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
Captcha !!!


On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez  wrote:

> Despite his surname, maybe from Netherlands,  the founder of the duolingo
> and developer of Gotcha is from Guatemala and he is graduated from Carnegie
> Mellon and Duke. Many schools in Latinamerica, most of them in poor places,
> are using  this tool to teach languages to their students. Really nice.
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Pamela McCorduck  wrote:
>
>> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
>> 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.
>> 
>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>>
>>
>>
>> 
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>>
>>
>

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Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
Despite his surname, maybe from Netherlands,  the founder of the duolingo
and developer of Gotcha is from Guatemala and he is graduated from Carnegie
Mellon and Duke. Many schools in Latinamerica, most of them in poor places,
are using  this tool to teach languages to their students. Really nice.

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:28 PM, Pamela McCorduck  wrote:

> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
> 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.
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>
>
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
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>
>

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Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread Frank Wimberly 
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

---
Frank Wimberly

My memoir:
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Phone (505) 670-9918

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 12:27 PM Pamela McCorduck  wrote:

> The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.
>
>
> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
> 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.
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>
>
> 
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Re: [FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread Pamela McCorduck 
The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.


> On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez  
> 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.
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove


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[FRIAM] Learn languages

2018-08-19 Thread Alfredo Covaleda Vélez 
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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