Multi-neighbour CEO Louis: Make learning as easy as playing games

Online education is now a very popular way to start an internet business, but the number of language-learning online education companies in neighboring countries has been a minor achievement: in the United States, there are more people learning languages in the US than the total number of people learning languages online. At the end of April this year, many neighboring countries (Duolingo) issued courses for Chinese users to learn English. With only the release of the iOS version, the first week was recommended by Apple's App Store, with 1 million users. "Although later because of the network reason, in a week or so of time users can not register caused a large number of users lost, but now we still have 1 million active users in China." "More neighboring CEO Louise Feng Ann (Luis von Ahn) told Tencent Technology. In the interview, Lewis shared his understanding of crowdsourcing, online education and the Chinese market. At the same time, Tencent Technology also invited to the domestic top game developers music Element CEO Allan H.N. Wang and Lewis had a high-end dialogue. The dialogue video will be released in the near future. Using crowdsourcing thinking to do translation many neighboring countries are the third company that Lewis created, and the top two companies he created have all been bought by Google (Weibo). Louis, an expert in internet crowdsourcing, has invented the most widely used authentication code system: To check the accuracy of text recognition by requiring user input as a verification code for the words extracted from the scanned ebook. The user input verification code to prove that he is a natural person, but also to help complete the electronic book. At the beginning of the creation of many neighboring countries, Lewis wanted to use the crowdsourcing to complete the Internet translation work. On the website of many neighboring countries, learners of all languages can practice by translating the content of other websites, and after multiple translations, a large number of users have actually helped complete the translation of the site--one of the most important business models in many neighboring countries, that is, charging for websites that need to be translated. "At present our partners include cnn,buzzfeed and Wikipedia. CNN's Spanish-language website is all translated by users from many neighboring countries. Although they are not professional translators, the quality of translation is very good due to the large number of users involved in the collaboration. "said Louis. Let learning be as simple as playing games as a language learning application, the biggest feature of many neighboring countries is not in the field of crowdsourcing, but the learning method of entertaining, so that learning becomes as fun as playing games. Many neighboring countries have introduced concepts such as "Losing Blood" and "life" in their courses. When the user in the study or practice, the answer to a wrong question will be "blood", answer the three wrong questions will be "lost". Can only start from scratch. This does not seem like much innovation, but because many neighboring countries have set each course very simple, and only 5 minutes to learn, many users use many neighboring countries to learn languages just to pass the time. "Playing games is killing time, but when you're in a neighboring country, you not only pass the time, but you also learn something." "said Louis. In addition, many neighbouring countries have made full use of data analysis techniques to continuously improve their curricula. Many neighboring countries can fully palmHold the user's answer, so you can also provide personalized service for individual users. This is also the advantage of more neighboring countries than offline language teaching, offline if the private teacher will be very expensive, and in the course of learning the teacher is difficult for each student to develop personalized learning programs. At present, many neighboring countries still offer language learning only, but Lewis believes this method can be applied to learning in various fields. Now they are considering the introduction of programming language learning, which may be online within a year. At the same time, many neighboring countries will also add more natural language learning courses, and provide richer learning methods, such as pronunciation and dialogue practice. Many neighboring countries have Web sites as well as mobile apps, so users everywhere can learn as long as they can connect to the Internet. This is especially important for people in remote areas who have the same opportunities to learn from the people in the city. "In our forum a lot of users will share their learning experience." A lot of people find jobs because they have another language, and of course, he doesn't have to make a living in another language, but it helps him find a job. Others, because of their immigration, have learned the language of their ancestral home through many neighboring countries, and can communicate with their grandparents normally. Of course, there are also people who learn languages through many neighboring countries and thus find men and women friends in their travels. "said Louis. China: Exciting market many neighboring countries are still the largest market in the United States, but the release of English-language learning courses for Chinese users only one months, the number of Chinese users than the original second largest market in Brazil. This made Lewis quite surprised. "We know that there is a big market in China and many Chinese want to learn a foreign language, but it is a bit of a surprise at such a rapid pace." "But soon after China was released, many neighboring countries had problems with their networks, and nearly half of the domestic users appeared unable to register or use them." Many users have been hit by a star in the App Store for their neighbors and have commented that they are dissatisfied. That could be the first blow to many neighboring countries in China. Early users are very important to an application, these users will often become an application of the core users. But this little accident has left many highly qualified users in neighboring countries. For the Chinese market, Lewis said the next two-step plan, the first is to try to add other language courses, such as Japanese and Korean, and the second is to release the Android version in China. "China has a large number of Android users, which is the biggest market." So we also attach great importance to the launch of the Android version. "said Louis. But China's fragmented Android market has made him feel a lot of headaches. At present, many neighboring countries and more than domestic application stores contact, hoping to find the most suitable partners to expand the market. At the same time, many neighboring countries also plan to recruit a local leader in China, after all, the Chinese market is too unique and too important. "You can choose one of your loyal users so that he knows enough about your product and will love the job," he said. "This is the domestic famous game company Le YuanVegetarian CEO Allan H.N. Wang to many neighboring countries.