As Duolingo's founder Luis von Ahn told me, the company plans to use this new funding to continue on its path to dominate the language-learning market.
A new vocabulary of renewal, regeneration, plumpness and "glow" now dominates the language of the beauty industry, the ethos of body-positivity finally inching its way up to the top.
And whereas the women who dominate the English-language blogosphere tend to be urbanites in their teens and 20s, the Bengali, Hindi and Tamil blogs seem to have engaged the attention of older women.
And with revenue last year of $550 million to $575 million, Univision's existing operations, which also include the Galavisión cable network, already dominate the Spanish-language television market, regularly drawing about 80percentt of its audience.
Univision WHAT'S WORKING Univision continued to dominate the Spanish-language airwaves this year with the network's lineup of telenovelas like "La Que No Podía Amar" (The One Who Could Not Love) and "Una Familia Con Suerte" (A Lucky Family) ranking high with Spanish-speaking viewers.
The more commonly spoken languages dominate the less commonly spoken languages, so the less commonly spoken languages eventually disappear from populations.
The five Republican leaders who dominate the committee inserted language into the bill to delay the screening program, which Congress voted last year to begin at the end of this year.
Meanwhile, several companies are fighting in court over the pieces of a third Russian-language station, RTN/WMNB, based in Fort Lee, N.J., which once dominated the Russian-language TV market but was dismembered in bankruptcy proceedings nearly two years ago.
Because we can't anticipate what ideas and language will dominate the next cycle of American politics, the previous era's key words — "élite," "mainstream," "real," "values," "patriotic," "snob," "liberal" — seem as potent as ever.
That is especially the case with submissions from Europe, which has dominated the foreign-language award.
