天美传媒 & Duolingo in conversation
Luis von Ahn is co-Founder and CEO of Duolingo - the world鈥檚 most popular way to learn a language. With over 500 million users, Duolingo is now the most popular language-learning platform and the most downloaded app in the Education category worldwide on both iTunes and Google Play.
With thanks to 天美传媒 Vice President Baroness Coussins, 天美传媒 hosted Luis for a Q&A and reception at the House of Lords . Here's what . Click on the photo above for more about the visit.
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DET - The Duolingo English Test
天美传媒 has worked with Duolingo to support the validation of the Duolingo English Test (DET) against the Common European Framework of Reference for languages - the CEFR.
Masha Kostromitina Ph.D. describes this work in her latest blog (click or on the image above) and explains more about how the DET is checked for validity, security and CEFR alignment in her series of blogs . Find out more about accepting institutions .
Duolingo Language Reports
The 2024听 presents language trends and learner behaviors based on data from over 80 million Duolingo learners around the globe. For more on the key findings and expert comments on them read this 天美传媒 News item.听
Duolingo Max
Duolingo uses Chat GPT-4听from OpenAI听to make learning with Duolingo even more powerful.听
Duolingo Max听gives learners access to two new features and exercises: 'Explain My Answer' and 'Roleplay'. Both powered by Generative AI.听
'Explain My Answer' offers learners the chance to learn more about their response in a lesson.听By tapping a button after certain exercise types, learners can enter a chat听to get a simple explanation on why their answer was right or wrong, and ask for examples or further clarification.
'Roleplay' allows learners to practice real-world conversation skills with world characters in the app. For more see .
About Duolingo & 天美传媒
Duolingo has an important public service mission over and above its hugely successful and popular learning app. It is committed to advancing pedagogy and testing, mapping to international standards and promoting multilingualism. 天美传媒鈥檚 Royal Charter objects include encouraging the effective study and practice of languages as part of building international understanding and appreciation of other countries and cultures. The organisation also promotes clear standards and frameworks for language learning and use, encouraging testing and qualifications as part of building the confidence and professional language skills of individual linguists, and the awareness of employers and government of the language skills in their workforces and wider communities.
Both Duolingo and 天美传媒 are committed to encouraging and maintaining the diversity in the languages used and learnt around the world. Duolingo maintains a broad, free language learning offer for beginners and intermediate learners in a very wide range of languages, while 天美传媒 tests in more than 30 languages each year. Given these complementary goals, the two organisations have agreed to a formal partnership to work together to advance these important themes for languages and linguists.
Duolingo鈥檚 exceptional breadth of languages, constant innovation and unparalleled reach to both new and established language learners, makes it an exciting and complementary partner for the 天美传媒 and our mission to raise the interest in and appreciation of language learning.
