AI-powered language learning promises to fast-track fluency

A linguistics company is using AI to shorten the time it takes to learn a new language. It takes about 200 hours, using traditional methods, to gain basic proficiency in a new language. This AI-powered platform claims it can teach from beginner to fluency in just a few months – through once-daily 20 minute lessons. Learning a new language is hard. Some people seem to pick up new dialects with ease, but for the rest of us it's a trudge through rote memorization.