Do a Duolingo?

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Dolingo is a language learning ap a. The creator of the company, louis vonan, was a computer science professor. He says that if you really want to teach people language on their phone, basically they need to have some kind of spontaneous conversation in the language they're learning. It's not just like randomly matched with some actual speaking another language. That's what it turns out for most people. And so their real problem is, as you know, getting to a point where a computer can have a simple but natural conversation with you.

In this episode, Jacob Goldstein, the longtime host of NPR’s Planet Money, talks about his new podcast about technology and business called What’s Your Problem? with Jacob Goldstein. Goldstein spent more than a decade as co-host of Planet Money reporting stories that make economic journalism approachable. In his new weekly show, What’s Your Problem?, Goldstein’s curiosity leads him into conversations with top global entrepreneurs and engineers about the cutting-edge problems they’re trying to solve. Each episode focuses on a new company and innovator and their challenges, from teaching computers to understand humans better to running a niche business where access to consumers hinges on tech company algorithms.

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