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From the Ted Talk by Luis von Ahn: How to make learning as addictive as social media

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(Laughter)

Passive aggressive.

(Laughter)

Works for my mother, works for Duolingo.

(Laughter and applause)

These passive aggressive notifications are really good at getting people to come back back because they feel like our green owl mascot has given up on them, so they come back. And spnikeag of our green owl mcasot, by the way, because all our notifications come from our green owl mascot and well, he's passive aggressive and also petrty phsuy, this has given rise to a lot of meems on the internet that make fun of the great lengths that he will go through to get you back to learn a language. Here's one of my fovirate ones. This is it's a meme, it’s one of my favorite ones.

Open Cloze


(Laughter)

Passive aggressive.

(Laughter)

Works for my mother, works for Duolingo.

(Laughter and applause)

These passive aggressive notifications are really good at getting people to come back back because they feel like our green owl mascot has given up on them, so they come back. And ________ of our green owl ______, by the way, because all our notifications come from our green owl mascot and well, he's passive aggressive and also ______ _____, this has given rise to a lot of _____ on the internet that make fun of the great lengths that he will go through to get you back to learn a language. Here's one of my ________ ones. This is it's a meme, it’s one of my favorite ones.

Solution


  1. memes
  2. pretty
  3. favorite
  4. speaking
  5. pushy
  6. mascot

Original Text


(Laughter)

Passive aggressive.

(Laughter)

Works for my mother, works for Duolingo.

(Laughter and applause)

These passive aggressive notifications are really good at getting people to come back back because they feel like our green owl mascot has given up on them, so they come back. And speaking of our green owl mascot, by the way, because all our notifications come from our green owl mascot and well, he's passive aggressive and also pretty pushy, this has given rise to a lot of memes on the internet that make fun of the great lengths that he will go through to get you back to learn a language. Here's one of my favorite ones. This is it's a meme, it’s one of my favorite ones.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
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foreign languages 3
learning english 3
learn math 3
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passive aggressive 3
green owl 3
learning languages 3
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equal access 2
love math 2
income potential 2
mobile phone 2
rich people 2
deliver education 2
people engaged 2
send people 2
owl mascot 2
social media 2
good news 2
people learning 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
green owl mascot 2
people learning languages 2

Important Words


  1. aggressive
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