Burr Settles

Burr Settles is a research scientist and engineer at Duolingo. Dr. Settles holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is interested in the intersection of large-scale machine learning with linguistics and cognitive science. He speaks French conversationally, and is falling in love with Haitian Creole.

3 habits of successful language learners

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Burr Settles

11:00 am PST • March 5, 2017

Roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide are currently learning a foreign language. If you are one of them, this article is for you. Whether you are learning to improve your job…