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“Today, as we speak, somewhere between one and a half to two billion people in the world are trying to learn or improve their English.”

“Large language models, those that are meant for generalized usage, they're usually trained mainly on English, and maybe a couple of languages, and if you really want to go broad, if you really want to go multilingual, you need models, you need the data and the…”

“English is the global language of business. You need to speak it at a professional and very confident level, and that nth degree does make a difference in your career outcomes.”

“Syntax is just an unnatural thing for people. So ultimately English is the programming language.”

“He knows English very well, but he'll never speak in English ever. He'll only speak in Russian in, in like public.”

“The counterexample that I always have that I think is quite illustrative is in German, the verb is at the end of the sentence. So if you're trying to do real-time translation from German to English, as an example, you can't actually make any progress on the En…”

“In, in most countries in the world knowledge of English increases your income potential. And there's like two billion people in the world learning English.”

“I think a year from now you know, most programming will be done in English. And I think that's the, there's almost no question.”

“The most significant programming language in the next few years is gonna turn into English, and then of course rapidly followed by Chinese, because the broad use of the language and being able to create things, computational artifacts, Code, et cetera.”

“And it turns out that in most countries in the world, if you know English, you can double your income potential.”

“We launched Duolingo in India and didn't realize, because we couldn't have unless we went there, which we finally did, that most people set their phones, phone UI in India to English.”

“More specifically, you can double or triple your income potential by learning English in a developing market like Latin America, and there are lots of those around the world.”

“Over half the people that watch my videos don't even speak English”

“The best way to think about it is, like, GPT or ChatGPT is a new type of computer with a new programming language, and that programming language is English.”

“So, when I came to English, I realized that a very big library exists in English. The whole knowledge exists in English. And when we learn Hindi, we just gave you a particular educational book. The rest of the knowledge is not accessible.”

“As we looked at the market, we quickly realized that the world wants to learn English.”

“And it turns out that in most countries in the world, if you know English, you can double your income potential.”

“So we do this in not just English, but we do it in also Chinese, Russian, and new for us this year, Has been Arabic.”

“English was actually harder than many romantic languages because the orthography in English, it means it's like how, how words get written and then said are, there's a better connection in romantic languages than English.”

“But I think code is going to be tomorrow's English, so.”