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document Distributed Knowledge, ToolsThe system is also crowd-sourced, in which the community starts the courses while the Memrise staff also edits to ensure quality. To date, there are almost 200 languages.
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article Distributed KnowledgeIf it works, Duolingo could be one of the best examples ever of a win-win scenario. The site teaches languages (English, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese, and soon Italian and Chinese) for...
document Distributed KnowledgeDuolingo gives you foreign language phrases from actual pages around the web. It only gives you phrases that match up with your level – like beginner, intermediate and advanced. You then go to...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe site launched as a private beta at the end of November—currently, English speakers can get on the waitlist to learn and translate Spanish and German. If Duolingo takes off, it could...
document Distributed Knowledge“Duolingo leverages the brain power of millions of people who are currently learning a new language to help translate the web,” Von Ahn told WebProNews, which says that a beta version of the site...
document ToolsIf this model works, it could potentially be extended to the more than 3,000 languages across the world that are projected to disappear in the next century. Granted, this method has holes; the more...
site Distributed Knowledge / EducationPeople who learn on Memrise contribute mnemonics to help themselves - and each other - to remember. Memrise uses game dynamics to keep people learning, and help them to learn faster by...
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Memrise incorporates a unique way of teaching and teaching foreign words; It crowdsources Mems, or Mneumonic devices from its community and then imparts them to users through online lessons...
article Cloud Labor, Distributed Knowledge, ToolsIf you are learning, or want to learn, a foreign language, or you have been frustrated in the past by websites that would be useful... if only they were in a language you spoke, the answer to both...
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article Distributed Knowledgeat Collins Dictionary we have leveraged the intersection of language and social media by opening up CollinsDictionary.com to crowdsourcing for new dictionary words. Our editorial staff thoroughly...
document Distributed KnowledgeIn order to quality check each translation, each sentence is translated by multiple people. People actually vote on which translation is best, and Duolingo throws in some wrong translations in...
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Duolingo is “much more ambitious,” Luis von Ahn said in an interview . “Here we have to create a very compelling Web site for people to come back to. In the case of reCAPTCHA, people were forced...
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The setup seems to be working. Duolingo emerged from its private beta this week with more than 125,000 active users who have so far translated 75 million sentences from Wikipedia and other online...
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A native English speaker interested in learning Spanish, for example, can begin by signing up with Duolingo. The site then gives the user single sentences to translate at a level that’s simple...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationAccording to Luis von Ahn, "it is estimated that there are over 1 billion people learning a foreign language. So, the site that they’ve been working on, Duolingo, will be a 100% free language...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationAside from the promise of free language instruction, it isn't clear how Duolingo may entice users. But many of von Ahn's past projects have involved casual games designed to encourage...
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In this workshop, many participants learned about crowdsourcing in the morning and were able to generate experimental results by the close of day. With any researcher now able to run experiments...
document Distributed KnowledgeDepending on their skill level, they'll get anything from complex work to simple phrases like "Where is the library?," with the option to see possible matches if they aren't...