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Alfredo Covaleda Vélez-2
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: Learn languages

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 <[hidden email]> 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: Learn languages

Frank Wimberly-2
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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.


On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[hidden email]> 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: Learn languages

Alfredo Covaleda Vélez-2
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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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.


On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[hidden email]> 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: Learn languages

Alfredo Covaleda Vélez-2
Captcha !!!


On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.


On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[hidden email]> 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: Learn languages

Alfredo Covaleda Vélez-2
In reply to this post by Frank Wimberly-2
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 <[hidden email]> 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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Phone (505) 670-9918

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 12:27 PM Pamela McCorduck <[hidden email]> wrote:
The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.


On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[hidden email]> 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: Learn languages

George Duncan-2
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 <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]> 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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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 <[hidden email]> wrote:
The guy who founded Duolingo is also the guy who invented Captchas.


On Aug 19, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <[hidden email]> 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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