🪟 Setting the Scene:

Context:

• Before Duolingo, language learning was often expensive, inaccessible, and lacked engagement. Traditional methods didn't cater to the diverse needs of global learners.
• Recognizing this gap, Duolingo revolutionized the industry by offering a free, gamified, and highly accessible platform for learning languages.
• Today, Duolingo is taking its extremely effective gamified learning system and applying it to other educational venues such as mathematics and music.

Duolingo’s Major Value Proposition:

1. Accessibility: Providing high-quality language education to millions for free, breaking down barriers to learning.
2. Engagement: Using gamification and personalization to make learning fun, motivating users to return daily and advance in their language skills.
3. Innovation: Continuously integrating AI and adaptive learning technologies to tailor lessons to individual learners’ needs, ensuring effective and efficient learning experiences.

🌱 Internship Roadmap: 12-16 Weeks

Note: This roadmap reflects my understanding of how I can contribute as an intern at Duolingo. My focus will be on learning, integrating into the team, and making tangible contributions to Duolingo’s ongoing projects and goals.

Weeks 1 - 4: Onboarding and Learning

Goals (high-level):

1. Rapidly onboard and familiarize myself with Duolingo’s products, tools, and internal processes. Update my understanding of Duolingo’s AI-driven features, gamification strategies, and user engagement tactics.
2. Understand the key projects and priorities of the team I’m assigned to.
3. Begin contributing to smaller tasks or feature enhancements under guidance.
4. Gain hands-on experience, contribute to ongoing projects, learn from, and grow with the engineers, product managers, and designers.