Interactive learning on Duolingo

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I see that Duolingo has been mentioned a couple times here already, but those topics didn't get much response, and things have changed a bit in the past couple years.

With Duolingo, you start out learning and translating simple phrases and sentences, then work your way up to longer texts. The process is kind of "gamified" in that you earn points and things as you go along. They also can send you reminders to practice a little bit every day. I think Duolingo would be a good way to learn Lojban – certainly, the interactive courses are better and easier than studying flash cards by yourself.

Duolingo is free, and the content for new language courses is generated by the community. They've recently added other constructed languages -- Esperanto and even Klingon -- so if enough of us express interest, there's no reason we can't have Lojban be part of the list. You can go to the Duolingo forum to talk about adding Lojban and if you know enough to help, apply here.

I really think this would be a good idea because it would give Lojban more exposure, and help new people learn in a more interactive way.

[Seth Turner]

Esperanto's appearance on duo brought in thousands of new learners. It was a massive success. I am enjoying the course myself. 

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[Andrew Toskin]

I don't know, I think we could make it work if enough people express interest. I've seen lessons in a few different languages, and Duolingo's lessons seem pretty formulaic. I imagine they have some sort of template for planning lesson content and coding the backend stuff.

I'm sure this will still require some nontrivial effort, but I think we can do it. The first step is probably to find some people whose Lojban is strong enough that they could help contribute to the lessons.

~Andrew

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 11:06 AM Gleki Arxokuna <gleki.is...@gmail.com> wrote:

I can reply to you in private and explain why Lojban isn't on Duolingo.

1. To enable it there they need to pay their employees to implement a lot of backend things.

2. To solve surface problems they need exercises like sentences with their translations sorted by lessons.

These are the answers from a member of Duolingo team.

As for 1. you may contact them and ask them how much money is needed to solve backend problems. How much you could spend?

As for 2. if you finished any course in Duolingo I would ask you (if you posted to help us all) to transfer all the lessons to a spreadsheet file. I started making a course for Lojban. Here is the template:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Qc6Em0vRibIImfbAkAodz55MssWnFiKrNpurYfGQwQ/edit?usp=sharing

It doesnt guarantee the course will appear there but if we complete it then we'll have good chances for it. In any case we'll be able to implement it using another software.

So if you can help then there is no need to speak Lojban for you. Just transfer any language course into this template.

Waiting for more questions from you.