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Are no longer required to learn a foreign language right which was a disaster yeah well i mean i agree with you but tell me what you think its a disaster i think this is disaster in many of the many reasons. we both teach. on a regular basis we both we taught children and adults. for as long which is a very. probably the biggest part of our lives shows simply that language is not the that isnt important in languages in my in our opinion the most important thing there is actually without language...

And learn from it. sounds trivial, but its one of the hardest things to do because entrepreneurs are geared towards believing what they go is -- do is right. at babble, it kind of saved us. we gave into the fact that we have to get people on board that understand language learning better than we do. we understand the app part. >> did it took you longer than it should to own that failure and change. >> yeah, how do you know? >> you know it in your gut, you know it is happening, but it takes a lon...

Sounds kind of trivial, but its one of the hardest things to do, because entrepreneurs are usually geared towards believing what they do is right. and to a certain extent, thats what you need to do. but then you get to that judgment call, where you need to get in, im riding a dead horse. and at babel, that kind of saved us. because we built a product first that really didnt work very well, the language learning. and we gave into the fact that we have toiterate. >> am i right in just guessing tha...

Solve the worlds biggest problems. todays disruptor is no stranger to solutions. luis von ahn was one of the co-founders of capcha. now hes trying to tackle the worlds education divide one language at a time with his free language learning ap duolingo. we met up with him at his headquarters in pittsburgh to talk to him about why transparency is so important to growth and how hes gotten everyone from students in columbia to tom hangs using the app. >> education always thought of this thing that c...

Summit that took place this weekend and in the approval rating to acquire skype so that having been said, connecting a million classrooms around the world and signed up more than 17,000 teacher teachers, well m one of them. cara, she teaches fifth grade in st. louis, missouri. here it is. >> and then i also put on my profile that i was looking for other teachers to do a weather project with. and that same day i got five teachers who are interested. all over the world. >> and whats interesting, s...

Learning no longer has to be limited by the geography, cultural or economical barriers. skype doesnt require a significant privilege to participa participate. the technology barrier is low and no big dollar sign and skype helps to level the playing field out between richer and poorer schools or students. aenl it also as i mentioned earlier really helps to increase student engagement and, you know, it is really interesting to see how skype has transformed the classroom, everything from that pen p...

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