2025-03-13
22 分钟I received an email from an applied linguistics student in Poland who asked me a number of questions for the thesis that she's doing on Duolingo and LingQ and AI and motivation and all the subjects that so often come up when it comes to language learning.
And I'm going to show you that interview.
And I think it's very interesting that a person in Poland would contact me and that we have this conversation and it's an indication of where we are today.
We are connected.
We can connect with people in Poland or in Japan or in Brazil or other countries.
I listened to podcasts from Persia, from Iran, rather in Persian.
And, you know, I think back when, you know, Montaigne would withdraw to his tower.
in order to think and write his essays and so forth.
Or we have Lao Tzu, the Taoist philosopher who talks about,
I can see the whole world from my window,
but the implication was that it's introspection, what we find within ourselves.
But today we are connected and languages are what connect us.
If we can speak more than one language, we are able to connect with more and more people.
And for that reason, I was very happy to connect with this linguistics student from Poland.
And I invite you to listen to our conversation.
So like I said, I'm an applied linguistics student.
In my last year, I'm doing my master's thesis and I'm analyzing LingQ and Duolingo,
talking about the differences between those two.
I know you've answered this question before, but for the sake of my thesis and this interview,
could you just tell me why or what inspired you to create the app?