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The title of the article is « How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us? ». The author of the article is Carina Chocano. It was published from the New Yorker April 17, 2023. The main idea of the article is how Von Ahn created one of the large-scale modern educational projects "Duolingo". The author comments on the fact, that at first, the application was created to translate texts, but later turned into an application that offers language lessons in the form of a series of bright, colorful, exciting games.

The author starts be telling the readers, that the application started its work from the moment when the creators decided to focus on learning the language, especially English, as it boosts earning potential. The author comments on the fact, that attracting people and getting them to stay is, in some ways, Duolingo’s core business. It was disclosed, that The concept of the application changed quite quickly, new courses were added, and not only texts were translated in the application, but also various tasks for the practice of a foreign language were created. The article concludes by saying, that a lot of developers were involved in this work because their ultimate goal was to make something more out of a fun application that would help people all over the planet learn a foreign language.

I found the article interesting, because I also tried to use this application, and I was interested to know the background of its creation.