Poll: Will AI increase or decrease demand for language learning in the long term?
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Lieven Malaise
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Language learning 10:14

Why do people start to learn languages? Because of economic necessity or because they are interested in doing so? I think mainly the latter, so I don't think AI will change that significantly, even if it would one day become a "perfect" translator. AI is IT, and all things IT can be hacked. That alone would be a reason to keep the human touch in language learning.

Christine Andersen
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No impact 12:00

My experience is that I was «forced» to learn French, starting at Kindergarten, my parents put me into a French school. Then in the early years of secondary school it was compulsory to learn French and I liked the feeling of knowing more than the others (no modesty there!). This awakened in me a taste for languages that has never left me since...

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