How to make learning as addictive as social media Luis von Ahn

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Sep 7, 202614:23Society & Culture

When technologist Luis von Ahn was building the popular language-learning platform Duolingo, he faced a big problem: Could an app designed to teach you something ever compete with addictive platforms like Instagram and T...

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