Michael Lynas
@michael_lynas
UK Country Director @duolingo. Founder & Patron @NCSTrust. Ex Bain & No10. Trustee: John Browne Charitable Trust & City Year.
Awesome and slightly surreal start to the year with everyone's favourite green owl Duo in Westminster! Excited to have more than 100 parliamentarians supporting the @duolingo #WestminsterLanguageChallenge learning 23 languages for a chance to win £20,000 for charity.
The APPG was delighted to host this event capping a wonderful few weeks in which MPs and peers took part in this challenge and shared their enthusiasm for languages. Delighted to work with @duolingo and @michael_lynas 's team to boost the visibility of languages in Parliament.
Congrats to the 200+ MPs and peers who took part in the @duolingo Westminster Language Challenge, learning 26 languages and completing 65,000 lessons! 🥇@CatSmithMP for @Girlguiding 🥈@adamthompson111 for Blue Tonic 🥉@alexlmayer for Home Start
Worth reading @thetimes interview of @duolingo founder and CEO @LuisvonAhn if you want to understand what makes Duolingo tick. TLDR - mission driven (open up access to education), combined with using the latest technology and don’t forget to make it fun! thetimes.com/article/0236db…
Bittersweet moment getting together with the @NCSTrust board for a last supper. We shared reflections on the massive impact that NCS has had on 1M+ young people across the UK and many more communities, local and national charities, parents and those who worked on the programme.
Thanjs @RoryStewartUK and @soniasodha for sharing your insights at DETcon London, our first @Duolingo conference in London.
Even Lily is excited about DETcon London. We’ve got amazing speakers for this @duolingo conference including our CEO @LuisvonAhn and @RoryStewartUK in conversation with @soniasodha. Looking forward to it!
Très bien @politico for covering the @duolingo Westminster Language Challenge. Well done to all the winners! 🏆@CatSmithMP 🏆@adamthompson111 🏆@alexlmayer
Someone is cross they don’t fit into my suitcase… Headed to Westminster this evening to help crown the winners of the Duolingo Westminster challenge and talk about how we can collaborate to protect our crucial language capability in the UK! @michael_lynas @duolingoUK #languages
The winner of the Westminster Language Challenge with @duolingo will be announced on 29 April! To find out more about the options of using technology to positively support languages learning, please see this link with materials from our last Winter Plenary:…
The @duolingo Westminster Language Challenge is in @thetimes! More than 100 parliamentarians have signed up to learn a new language and it’s lovely to hear some of the different motivations: @alexsobel for his Ukrainian heritage, @adamthompson111 to brush up on childhood Welsh…
someone’s been practicing their welsh 👀
Happy St David’s Day from The Prince of Wales 🏴 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus gan Dywysog Cymru 🏴
Great to see Prince William making progress with his Welsh on @duolingo! thetimes.com/article/4c1aea…
Good conversation about the Duolingo Westminster Language Challenge on Times Radio with @darrenpaffey. Check out the interview below! 👇👇👇 We spoke about why language learning matters and how the decline in fluency among MPs mirrors the general decline in language learning at…