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<p>Slate</p>
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<p>Does Duolingo Pass the Test?</p>
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Carnegie Mellon University is partnering with Duolingo, one of its spinoffs, to see if a 20-minute, $20 test is sufficient to prove international students’ English proficiency. Duolingo, meanwhile, hopes its test can upend the market.</p>
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Duolingo, a crowdsourced Web translation project created by researchers in Carnegie Mellon’s computer science department, spun off from the university in November 2011 to become a venture capital-backed startup. The company now offers language learning Web
and smartphone apps.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2014/07/carnegie_mellon_partners_with_duolingo_a_language_learning_app_to_make_it.html">http://www.slate.com/articles/life/inside_higher_ed/2014/07/carnegie_mellon_partners_with_duolingo_a_language_learning_app_to_make_it.html</a></p>
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