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Duolingo CTO & cofounder

Duolingo turns 12 today. It's the best place I've ever worked. (It's also the only place I've ever worked.) Here's one of the earliest photos of me at the office. Happy Birthday Duolingo!

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Laura Dorman

Gloveaholic | PPE lover | Passionate trainer | Part-time stand-up comedian

1mo

I've been a loyal slave to the owl since 2015 and am currently on a 1678 day streak. I'm very proud that I can say sentences such as "You are as big as an elephant" or "The dogs are reading the newspaper" in about 5 different languages. I do however have a request. Ich habe jedoch eine Bitte.  ただ、ひとつお願いがあります。 不过,我有一个请求。 Tuttavia, ho una richiesta.  I want to have friends and be able to cheer them on, but I don't want to be part of the leagues. Is this possible?

Glenda MacDonald

#TheStoryfinder | Freelance Writer & Editor & Photographer | Social Marketer | Instagram Specialist | Author Platforms I AI Writer/Editor

1mo

Well thank goodness you exist. I am a Duolingo fan on streak Day 646. I am munching Finnish and Chinese and have tasted multiple other languages in my time with DL. I spend every single morning with you and you remind me if I forget to stop by. I had a parrot for 25 years and recently lost him so you are my daily bird! I don't even mind your advertising most of the time and appreciate that I can mute the sound if I feel like it. Keep up the great work! I love that you teach not just words and phrases but how to speak and hear very delicate intonations and nuances. I am actually starting to think in Chinese sometimes and the local market owner is increasingly impressed when I shop in her store!

Eteimorde Youdiowei

AI Engineer | tinkering with Lightweight Models

1mo

I would love to work at duolingo but my only qualification is my streak 🫠

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wait this is my first job too!!!!!!!!!

Trung Pham

Learning and Development Deputy Manager at VAECO / Master of Science - MSc at ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile

1mo

Merci a vous, grace a Duolingo, learning is a pleasant process and easily become a daily habit 😜🥰😁

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Congratulations, Duo! Our staff learns well from you to assist our clients in their native language more easily when we create their promotional merch products! Duolingo makes it possible, so we appreciate your team making language learning fun and easy!

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Panpan Yang

Associate Career Coach at SeeU International Inc.

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Happy 12th Birthday Duo 🎂🎉🎇✨🎈 ! It reminds me of that actually the first time I used Duolingo was 10 years ago. But at that time I also tried other language learning apps and I felt the novelty soon wore off. 3 years ago, I saw the girl I knew that summer use Duolingo to learn French, and I found that the app seemed to have improved a lot! Or maybe just because I didn't find how good it is before. So I started to use it to learn French again, and last year I started to learn Dutch. Now I have been studying in Duolingo for almost 1000 days (It's been 983 days) 😊😉 !

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Happy Birthday, Duo! 🙏🏻It’s always been a dream to work here. Growing up in a small town and learning how to speak a variety of different languages. I speak over 6 languages and been teaching Japanese language and culture for a while. Just moved to the States a year ago. I hope that someday I will get a chance to join this amazing team of people!🎉🎉🎉I hope Duolingo will keep prospering and expanding!

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Ritwik T.

IIT Madras | MBA@IRMA2020 | Python, Machine Learning & Exploring Web3

1mo

I really love using Duolingo. Godspeed 🙌 you folks. Keep doing the great work. You really have an app where the paid plans are really worth it. The mental stimulation I get from learning multiple languages simultaneously is the most amazing feeling ever. I really wish I could learn Sanskrit on Duolingo as well to be honest but I guess Duolingo will learn Sanskrit in time.

Katherine Winchek

✨ Becoming and Growing the next generation of leaders ✨ | Ph.D. (ABD) | Organizational-Anthropologist | L&D Consultant | Neurodivergent

1mo

I was thinking that Duolingo is getting really good at sneaking its way into my life and giving me a language reminders and this felt like it was next level 🤭

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