![]() There are also a lot of languages that have millions of speakers worldwide, and yet still don't have courses devoted to them - Farsi, Thai, and Bengali come to mind. More indigenous or endangered languages would be interesting (my personal pipe dream wish is Greenlandic or another Inuit language). Icelandic has always been widely requested. That's why I don't think Sanskrit would work, it would just be disappointing to everyone.Īll in all, though, I'd like to see a bunch of new languages, and just about any new language they announce I'll be happy with. The same thing can probably be found among a bunch of languages (certainly Hindi is far too short), but I also think that Duolingo just isn't really a great system for learning a dead, grammatically complex language like Latin. Latin, for example, has a long way to go before it's much use to anyone trying to learn Latin. Several languages need massive overhauls first, many because they were rushed releases from the beginning. But it doesn't look very thorough either. I don't know how good (or bad) their Hawaiian course is, so I cannot comment on that. The same way that they claim to teach "Endangered languages like Hawaiian and Navajo" even though their Navajo course is literally worse than nothing. I am kind of of the opinion that they added Zulu only so they can claim they teach African language s, because they also have Swahili. ![]() "Oh, 25 million people are learning Spanish? I guess I should learn Spanish, too!" This introduces an artificial bias, IMO, to help make languages like Spanish and French even more popular than they might be if the languages were alphabetized. It's not ordered alphabetically but by how many people are "learning" each language. The top 5 or 10 languages that everyone else offers: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian.Īs a hint to how they feel about languages, check out the registration page. ![]()
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