{"id":6794,"date":"2024-02-02T12:43:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/?p=6794"},"modified":"2024-02-02T12:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T19:43:37","slug":"founders-parade-steve-kaufman-of-lingq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2024\/02\/02\/founders-parade-steve-kaufman-of-lingq\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Parade &#8211; Steve Kaufman of LingQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.lingq.com\/static\/webapp\/images\/public\/home\/v5\/steve-way.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:287px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Kaufman is the founder of Vancouver based LingQ, a language learning app and community hub for language learners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kaufman is an expected founder of a language learning tool; his background is not education, computer science or linguistics, rather, he worked in the forestry industry. He admits to having neither interest or experience in learning a languages while growing, claiming that at the age of 17 he spoke only English \u2013 this despite being born in Sweden and growing up in Montreal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite this, he began acquiring languages as he began travelling. His philosophy on language learning is that desire to communicate is the primary motivation, and traditional methods of teaching grammar and using boring texts is counterproductive. His app, LingQ, follows this approach as a way to differentiate itself from competing apps (Duolingo or Memrise for example), which have a more traditional approach. LingQ provides larger sections of written and spoken samples, with support to help learners deal with new vocabulary and phrases. Instead of a prescribed curriculum, users are encouraged to find languages and texts that interest them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another way LingQ differs from its competition is that Kaufman maintains a highly visible presence. Besides using his personal experience as an example, he regularly produces videos, interviews and blog posts on the topic of language learning. These not only draw interest in his company, but continue to provide motivation and suggestions to existing users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LingQ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Lingq.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.Lingq.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interview with Kaufman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartlanguagelearner.com\/steve-kaufmann-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smartlanguagelearner.com\/steve-kaufmann-interview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About page at Steve Kaufman\u2019s blog<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelinguist.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thelinguist.com\/about<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steve Kaufman\u2019s LinkedIn profile<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lingq-com\/?originalSubdomain=ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/lingq-com\/?originalSubdomain=ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Kaufman is the founder of Vancouver based LingQ, a language learning app and community hub for language learners. Kaufman is an expected founder of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/2024\/02\/02\/founders-parade-steve-kaufman-of-lingq\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Founders Parade &#8211; Steve Kaufman of LingQ<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":96689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-founders-parade","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6794"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6794\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}