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Mack: The value of learning foreign languages will continuously decline with time
“I think learning a language is probably the skill of it is going to go down and down with time.”
Puri: Ambient language plugins like Toucan beat dedicated apps like Duolingo
“The biggest friction is not that it's that hard to learn a language. It's hard to make the time to like sit down, open the book or download the app, open the app and focus and just do Duolingo for 30 minutes a day. It doesn't sound that hard, but in practice i…”
Sam Parr: Duolingo originally monetized by selling user translations to third parties
“When he started Duolingo, he started it for two reasons. One, I guess he just cared about helping you learn language, but two, when you are learning the language, you're actually translating stuff that a third-party service is paying for you to translate.”