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DuoLingo Language Learning

Have you ever wanted to learn a language, but you just didn’t know how, or didn’t have the extra money to take a class or hire a personal tutor?

Just released into beta, DuoLingo is hoping to help you learn that language that you’ve always told yourself you were going to learn. We’ve all tried different learning methods, some more successful than others, but DuoLingo is hoping you will help them translate the web while you learn a language.

How do you translate a language that you don’t know? Watch the above video to get an better explanation, but you start out as a beginner, with the easiest of sentences getting shown to you to translate, and you work your way up over time to more complicated sentences, which means they are trying to keep you at a comfortable level so that you don’t experience the frustration you may feel in a classroom setting where you are expected to keep up or slow yourself down with the rest of the group. If you don’t know words you are being asked to translate, a helper will give you suggetions for the proper translations, and makes note that you may need to review those words later on.

Personally I think that this is a great way to learn a language, and a very efficient way to help translate the web. I have signed up to brush up on my Spanish. After years in a classroom and a couple different trips to Spanish speaking countries and I am still not as confident with my bilingual abilities as I should be so I have high hopes that this will finally help me learn that language.

Make sure to check them out at their website, http://duolingo.com, to sign up and start learning a new language.