The bilingual articles, do not work in alternate browsers like Chrome, works fine in Explorer though
"RIP Minsky, the father of artificial intelligence" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening exercises section.
Marvin Minsky, the father of artificial intelligence – and our beloved KwizBot‘s spiritual grandfather – passed away on January 24 2016. Learn about this groundbreaking scientist in our bilingual article below.
After listening to the audio, click any word for the English translation and links to related grammar lessons.
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Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!
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Hi Steve, thanks for writing in. The articles are actually tested first in Chrome and Firefox and certainly work generally (I'm writing from Chrome right now), can you describe the issue you're encountering? We're aware of a behaviour on some mobile browsers that requires a "long" click, e.g. for 200 milliseconds or two to get the popover. We're working on a tweak for that (it does work, just not an obvious behaviour), but desktop browsers of all flavours (back to about Internet Explorer 8) will work unless there is a plugin or similar preventing it. Please do contact us with any details and we will look into your specific situation.