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Duolingo

Duolingo is a free language education platform that offers 94 different language courses in 23 languages. Founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker in 2011, Duolingo is backed by investors that include CapitalG, Drive Capital, Kleiner Perkins, New Enterprise Associates, and Union Square Ventures and is headquartered in Pittsburgh.

FOUNDED:
2011
INDUSTRY:
E-Learning, Education, Internet, Language Learning, Machine Learning
FOUNDERS:
Luis von Ahn, Severin Hacker

3 Free Apps for Learning a New Language

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Can you speak a foreign language? Probably not, right? That’s because only about 9% of the US population is bilingual, while 65% of the rest of the world is, according to the Census Bureau. Crazy numbers, but it’s not so hard to believe. English is everywhere and used as the main language of business, science, […]

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