[igotwowhacke]

Duolingo is a fairly new website focused on the collaboration and shared knowledge of different people around the world, allowing them to learn a language while at the same time translating text in to their native language; creating a circle of helpfulness wherein you learn while teaching others, and while teaching you learn from others.

There isn't much information on it at the moment, but as far as I can tell it seems like quite an amazing idea; one that I'm certainly going to be keeping an eye on. For more information and a much better description, watch the video below.

As it is a private beta and the amount of users is currently limited, you can still enter your email and wait for an invite, that's what I'm doing. Hopefully you guys find this interesting; I'm sure you'd be intrigued in the prospect of what people really mean when they say jajajajjajajaa.

[theenemy]

This is such a good idea. I'm definitely giving this a go.

[wootmonster]

This is indeed a great idea, and I can't wait to see how it'll turn out.

[VistaPOWA]

Great idea, signed up and will probably translate a lot of hungarian texts to english.

[Upgrade123]

I will translate every text ever forever into Latin.

[bootv2]

this is awesome, needs to support more languages though.

[igotwowhacke]

bootv2 posted:

this is awesome, needs to support more languages though.

I agree, but as it is only a beta, and I believe not too well-known, it's probably going to open up a great deal when (hopefully) its user base increases.

[The Aussie]

I'd love to Learn french using this.

[zzlawlzz]

I hope i can learn spanish on the internet while i couldnt learn in school because.. I am terrible at spanish.

[BANNED USER]

This is such a good idea, what else is there to say? Translating web articles while learning a language at the same time? I may become multilingual from something like this.

[Cone]

Interesting. I've wanted to learn German for quite some time now, since I'm thinking of moving there when I get older.

Might pick it up.

[areolop]

This.. is so awesome.

[Stonecycle]

Always wanted to learn an Asian language, so Chinese it is. Signed up!

[The First 11'er]

What a great idea.

[Fhenexx]

I guess I'm on my way to learning some Chinese! Signing up...

[install gentoo]

Gonna try to learn american, always wanted to live there.

[The First 11'er]

install gentoo posted:

Gonna try to learn american, always wanted to live there.

Uh, it's still English..

[Rocko's]

I really want to learn Norwegian. Maybe Dutch as well.

Edited:

Aw shucks, no Norwegian, time to practice German I guess.

[KlaseR]

Signed up to help people translate Italian!


mamma mia, give a me the sentences to trans a late

[Skellyhell]

Does it have any kind of protection over people falsely translating things?

[The Aussie]

Stonecycle posted:

Always wanted to learn an Asian language, so Chinese it is. Signed up!

And you decided it would be mandarin? Asian languages are notoriously hard, mandarin is the king.

[usaokay]

This might become successful. Might.

[Spycrabz]

Signed up to boost my Italian knowledge a bit.

[lapsus_]

Italian, close to English C1, got german A2 and spanish B1
Hope I make it into the beta

[ExplodingGuy]

Signed up for Chinese, which I assume is going to be Mandarin.

Fingers crossed.

[gamefreek76]

Cool, although there current list of languages is limited.
I'll sign up when it's public.

[A Noobcake]

Hey, gives me a good reason and way to practice my German. Fucking brilliant.

[cosmic duck]

Anyone else catch the community reference in the video?

Donde, está, la biblioteca. Me llamo T-Bone La araña discoteca. Discoteca, muñeca, La biblioteca Está en bigotes grandes, el perro, manteca. Manteca, bigotes, gigante, pequeño, la cabeza es nieve, cerveza es bueno. Buenos dias, me gusta papas frías, los bigotes de la cabra Es Cameron Diaz.

[Apollo2947]

Thanks OP. I've now got an idea for a school project!

[Baldr 2.0]

Skellyhell posted:

Does it have any kind of protection over people falsely translating things?

You are not the only one, a final translation would be made from combining several translations not just one.

But yeah signed up for German and I hope they add more languages.