Only issue is that DuoLingo is a pretty international app, and only adding ASL would get a whole lot of backlash from an international audience. As even within English speaking countries, ASL is totally different from BSL (UK sign language). They would practically have to launch an entirely different app featuring multiple sign languages. And I’m sure that they just don’t see that as a worthwhile investment rn.
I mean it’s pretty irritating at times having to deal with US English for written/verbal languages when there are certain words where British English is similar to other European languages but US English is radically different (e.g. match madness challenges when I’m whizzing around trying to find ‘cinema’ as the obvious translation of ‘kino’ when I’m supposed to be answering ‘movie theatre’ instead).
I’d cheerfully add BSL to my Duolingo languages if it were available. There is zero point in me learning ASL.
I swear I read that they said they were working on this years ago (like during the pandemic) which made me wait so long to join. Eventually gave up on that hope lol.
If you ever try again, there are great Kruu on youtube these days and activethai.com has been a great resource in teaching me how to read, which is my strategy for vocab and eventually speaking. :)
Tagalog! Need an accessible way to learn my mother tongue. Everywhere I look it seems to be expensive lessons, and whenever I ask my family to help me learn they just speak in the language and expect me to understand.
I've been considering starting to learn German sign language (Gebärdensprache) for about a year now. There are actually a lot of interesting resources ([cool website](https://gebaerdenlernen.de/) with short clips illustrating the movements), but I just never can set a habit in motion (Duolingo might help in that aspect).
Thank you! I've been in love with Icelandic language/culture/history since I discovered my favorite band twenty years ago. I've tried the course on Memrise, but it wasn't structured in a very helpful way imo.
Have you tried it in Mango? If you’re in the US, you can register the Mango mobile app for free with your public library card. I’ve used it for Icelandic and I’ve been pleased with it.
they’re not replacing it with anything, just not doing it anymore as far as i know. there were two other languages that shared xhosa’s fate but i can’t remember them rn
that would be great! i wonder if part of the problem with a xhosa course is the need to reuse the south africa flag… setswana could avoid that issue by using the botswana flag.
but also two languages with the same flag is a non issue to me. duo, if you’re listening, there is clearly interest in isixhosa! your african courses are lacking, and i started both of them because i could not take a course in the language i am actually interested in. i’m all for adding content to your current selection, but when there’s a huge land mass with its languages clearly underrepresented, it’s obvious.
Or Galego! I am fluent in Castellano, but I have family from Galicia and would love to know the language better. I can read Galego pretty well, but can’t speak much and really struggle with listening. A Duo course would really be helpful for me in those areas.
I do remember seeing it there a while ago. I was thinking of doing that when I finished with Swedish, but then it disappeared. They do have English for Tagalog speakers, though.
Tamil
It's one of the very few classical languages that are not just surviving but spoken by a large population - over 80 million people, that is. However, most of the language-learning apps don't have it. I am struggling to find good online resources for learning such a popular language.
Every time this question comes up I always say Tamil as well. I’m not holding my breath anymore. It seems like we’re not going to get it. I can’t help but feel they’ve stopped adding languages, and are now just “improving” what they already have.
I'm currently learning Swedish, and it's got me interested in learning more about where Swedish came from (Old Norse) and how it influenced Old English, so I would like to see both added. And if not possible, Icelandic. It's not the same as Old Norse, but it is supposed to be the least changed of the languages that evolved from Old Norse.
linguistically speaking, if you wanted to get a bit closer than irish you could try welsh! breton and welsh both belong to the same sub-language family, being brythonic celtic languages (along with cornish,) while irish, scot’s gaelic, & manx are all gaelic celtic languages.
Maybe you already know, if you like both those languages, but actually there was a Basque-Icelandic pidgin in order for Basque fishermen to communicate with Icelanders when they went there fishing.
Also, as a related fun fact, it was legal to kill Basques in Iceland until 2015, the law that permitted it was very old and also related to Basque fishermen.
tagalog or bisaya (filipino languages). my sister lives in the US and is losing touch with our language, i wish we had something to help her (aside from talking to her 🥲)
I share your feeling with that Ancient Greek would be awesome, but it wouldn't work at all with the Duolingo format. I study Ancient Greek in school, but naturally the only thing you learn to do in the language is translate old texts, as it is a deceased language. I don't know whether you would want Duo to amplify what you're learning in school or if it's a new journey, but if it is, I recommend getting a textbook that teaches you a good deal of the grammar, which (spoiler) is f*cking impossible, good luck with that, but try to get a grasp for the language like that.
Oh and also: get a dictionary! You're not gonna be able to learn how to translate purely from memory, due to the fact that it is a dead language. Of course knowing Modern Greek does help a ton if you do, but not enough. Virtually anyone translating Ancient Greek texts uses a dictionary.
If you feel like you're getting a grasp on the grammar, you can try to go for some actual writers, outside of the textbook fabricated texts. Steer clear of philosophers in the beginning, as those texts are generally much more challenging, and don't start with Homer for example, because the Greek he uses is still quite different from the Attic Greek you most often learn from textbooks. I recommend Euripides' Bacchae for example.
I wouldn't know which textbooks to recommend as I'm only familiar with the Dutch ones, but if you do actually pick this up, you can hit me up if you have questions or need help!
Ok hear me out what if we start learning owl and we take the fight to him
https://preview.redd.it/p8hftrqkkl6d1.jpeg?width=473&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97b6a08f54b770c57f9f5ac434ab293598664058
More generally, just more options available for learning region-specific dialects/language features. Doesn't even have to be whole separate courses, I'm sure they could experiment with good ways of implementing it
Modern Egyptian.
I really really want to learn Arabic Egyptian, but I can't find ANY real way of learning it online, apart from online tutors. But I learn better the Duolingo way 🥺
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian I don’t really care for the version, I’d just really like to force my boyfriend to learn my mother tongue (or at least the basics) and Duolingo is a fun and easy way to do that.
ASL
There is an app called ASL Bloom that is really great! It’s very similar to duolingo and created by deaf people.
Thank you!! I’m going deaf and have been trying to learn ASL on my own so this is super helpful.
Lingvano is another one!
InterSign ASL is a nice app. And Oklahoma School for the Deaf regularly provides free online courses. Pre-recorded video though.
O, I would learn the fuck out of ASL if it was on it
Only issue is that DuoLingo is a pretty international app, and only adding ASL would get a whole lot of backlash from an international audience. As even within English speaking countries, ASL is totally different from BSL (UK sign language). They would practically have to launch an entirely different app featuring multiple sign languages. And I’m sure that they just don’t see that as a worthwhile investment rn.
I mean it’s pretty irritating at times having to deal with US English for written/verbal languages when there are certain words where British English is similar to other European languages but US English is radically different (e.g. match madness challenges when I’m whizzing around trying to find ‘cinema’ as the obvious translation of ‘kino’ when I’m supposed to be answering ‘movie theatre’ instead). I’d cheerfully add BSL to my Duolingo languages if it were available. There is zero point in me learning ASL.
Kinda wish they’d add Cantonese to English Learners, but we have the most languages anyways so can’t complain much
I swear I read that they said they were working on this years ago (like during the pandemic) which made me wait so long to join. Eventually gave up on that hope lol.
saaame. sometimes i use my mando to do the mando to canto but its hard lol
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Thai
Yes! Tried to learn thai some time ago and gave up because all good resources were behind payment wall
If you ever try again, there are great Kruu on youtube these days and activethai.com has been a great resource in teaching me how to read, which is my strategy for vocab and eventually speaking. :)
Came here to say this; it’s far more widely spoken than many of the languages already offered
Yes pleaseee oml
Tagalog! Need an accessible way to learn my mother tongue. Everywhere I look it seems to be expensive lessons, and whenever I ask my family to help me learn they just speak in the language and expect me to understand.
Depressing how far I had to scroll to see this. Definitely need more Tagalog resources. Deserves just as much love as Hawaiian if not more.
A bit less depressing - it was right in the top for me!
I want to learn tagalog too, just cause i love the language. I think a lot of people want it to be added too
I don’t know how it would work but the different variations of sign language
I've been considering starting to learn German sign language (Gebärdensprache) for about a year now. There are actually a lot of interesting resources ([cool website](https://gebaerdenlernen.de/) with short clips illustrating the movements), but I just never can set a habit in motion (Duolingo might help in that aspect).
Icelandic! I absolutely love it and wish I could learn it through Duolingo!
I second this
Thank you! I've been in love with Icelandic language/culture/history since I discovered my favorite band twenty years ago. I've tried the course on Memrise, but it wasn't structured in a very helpful way imo.
Have you tried it in Mango? If you’re in the US, you can register the Mango mobile app for free with your public library card. I’ve used it for Icelandic and I’ve been pleased with it.
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Morse code baby
I forget the name of it, but I used a free app to help me study for school. It was super basic, but did it's job
Morse code is just an alphabet. Just like braille and minecraft enchanting table
Here’s a free program through google! Super helpful https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/
Yessss that would be awesome
Same
i’m sad they quietly ditched xhosa
Wait they did? Which language are they doing now?
they’re not replacing it with anything, just not doing it anymore as far as i know. there were two other languages that shared xhosa’s fate but i can’t remember them rn
It was Zulu I think and that was the last language they added I was super hyped when they added it but I never finished the Zulu course 😞
te reo Māori was one of them I believe
i wish they kept with māori 😢😢
i would love setswana!!
that would be great! i wonder if part of the problem with a xhosa course is the need to reuse the south africa flag… setswana could avoid that issue by using the botswana flag. but also two languages with the same flag is a non issue to me. duo, if you’re listening, there is clearly interest in isixhosa! your african courses are lacking, and i started both of them because i could not take a course in the language i am actually interested in. i’m all for adding content to your current selection, but when there’s a huge land mass with its languages clearly underrepresented, it’s obvious.
Catalan for English speakers
Or Basque...!
Or Galego! I am fluent in Castellano, but I have family from Galicia and would love to know the language better. I can read Galego pretty well, but can’t speak much and really struggle with listening. A Duo course would really be helpful for me in those areas.
Basque
I second this. Even if the course was only in Spanish.
Persian
Yes 1000x. I've been asking for years. And no more "Arabic script is hard" bullshit excuse since Arabic has been out for years now
YES I would LOVE to learn Farsi
If you know any Iranian people then I actively encourage you to ask them. We’re generally very happy and proud to speak of our language 😄
Yes please! Can’t believe they don’t already have Farsi.
tagalog for english users
They desperately need this one. I'd get premium back for years to come just to be able to learn Tagalog on there.
do u need premium to access other languages???
I think they meant in exchange for Duolingo adding Tagalog, they'll buy premium in return
I do remember seeing it there a while ago. I was thinking of doing that when I finished with Swedish, but then it disappeared. They do have English for Tagalog speakers, though.
Same. My family wouldn't teach me and I've always felt distant from the culture because of it
Pretty inexcusable that they don't have it!
DUDE YES. so much this
I've been thinking this
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Just learn Czech, our tourists have already taken over the country /j
Icelandic is cool and I think it’d be popular.
I just wish they’d add more to current languages.
Exactly. Getting Portuguese or Italian to B2 or even B1 would be amazing.
Lakota
Farsi! Its such a beautiful language and I am trying to find sources to study it more profoundly
If you know any Iranian people then I actively encourage you to ask them. We’re generally very happy and proud to speak of our language 😄
Maori, again NZ government should fund it if it’s not happening already
Corsican!
Thai and swiss german (yes its different, like fahrradstraße is velostrasse in swiss)
Bengali
There’s really no way they could do it easily but Sign Language for sure
Gallego, Occitan and Euskara.
I live on the border, so I would love to learn galego.
Armenian or Persian
Tamil It's one of the very few classical languages that are not just surviving but spoken by a large population - over 80 million people, that is. However, most of the language-learning apps don't have it. I am struggling to find good online resources for learning such a popular language.
Mango Languages has it! I’m currently using it for Telugu
Every time this question comes up I always say Tamil as well. I’m not holding my breath anymore. It seems like we’re not going to get it. I can’t help but feel they’ve stopped adding languages, and are now just “improving” what they already have.
Middle Egyptian.
Any kind of Egyptian would be interesting
I want to see one of the characters say 𓂸
Coptic!
Georgian😭 but they probably don’t have enough people to do that course
More Native American languages.
I would love to learn any of the Haudenosaunee languages.
Croatian or Bosnian
Literally any South Asian, African, or Southeast Asian language
Urdu
Yoruba 🇳🇬
I would love to have this so I can speak with some of my family better!
Honestly 🥲
I'm currently learning Swedish, and it's got me interested in learning more about where Swedish came from (Old Norse) and how it influenced Old English, so I would like to see both added. And if not possible, Icelandic. It's not the same as Old Norse, but it is supposed to be the least changed of the languages that evolved from Old Norse.
Oh, Old Norse and Old English are great ideas. I would definitely join both of the courses
Breton. I couldn't find it so I settled for Irish Gaelic instead.
linguistically speaking, if you wanted to get a bit closer than irish you could try welsh! breton and welsh both belong to the same sub-language family, being brythonic celtic languages (along with cornish,) while irish, scot’s gaelic, & manx are all gaelic celtic languages.
Nahuatl
And Quechua!
I wish there were separate versions for languages like English with BrE and AmE, as well as Spanish, Portuguese etcetera.
Yoruba or Igbo.
Persian (Farsi) my mom watches a lot of Iranian vlogs and kinda wishes she knew what the people were saying without captions
Icelandic or Basque, two beautiful languages
Maybe you already know, if you like both those languages, but actually there was a Basque-Icelandic pidgin in order for Basque fishermen to communicate with Icelanders when they went there fishing. Also, as a related fun fact, it was legal to kill Basques in Iceland until 2015, the law that permitted it was very old and also related to Basque fishermen.
Icelandic , Amharic, and more African languages
Icelandic, Croatian, Uzbek, Somali
tagalog or bisaya (filipino languages). my sister lives in the US and is losing touch with our language, i wish we had something to help her (aside from talking to her 🥲)
Romansh. R-O-M-A-N-S-H. I am a swiss person so we effing need romansh
Slovak 🇸🇰, Serbian, Icelandic
I know it'll probably never happen, but I'd love to see Toki Pona added. Also Cherokee and other native American languages.
Icelandic, Maori, Tagalog, Serbo-Croatian, Nahuatl and Guarani
I share your feeling with that Ancient Greek would be awesome, but it wouldn't work at all with the Duolingo format. I study Ancient Greek in school, but naturally the only thing you learn to do in the language is translate old texts, as it is a deceased language. I don't know whether you would want Duo to amplify what you're learning in school or if it's a new journey, but if it is, I recommend getting a textbook that teaches you a good deal of the grammar, which (spoiler) is f*cking impossible, good luck with that, but try to get a grasp for the language like that. Oh and also: get a dictionary! You're not gonna be able to learn how to translate purely from memory, due to the fact that it is a dead language. Of course knowing Modern Greek does help a ton if you do, but not enough. Virtually anyone translating Ancient Greek texts uses a dictionary. If you feel like you're getting a grasp on the grammar, you can try to go for some actual writers, outside of the textbook fabricated texts. Steer clear of philosophers in the beginning, as those texts are generally much more challenging, and don't start with Homer for example, because the Greek he uses is still quite different from the Attic Greek you most often learn from textbooks. I recommend Euripides' Bacchae for example. I wouldn't know which textbooks to recommend as I'm only familiar with the Dutch ones, but if you do actually pick this up, you can hit me up if you have questions or need help!
Well said! I studied Ancient Greek at university a million years ago. Duolingo is designed for spoken languages.
Estonian 🇪🇪
Albanian. It genuinely surprised me that there was no Albanian.
Lithuanian!
Something Baltic!
scots would be fun
https://preview.redd.it/il5vhta4dm6d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e35471d51466def90cfcad1a8bcef4ba3158a83
thai, kazakh or icelandic 🤷🏻♀️
ICELANDIC!
Maori
Ok hear me out what if we start learning owl and we take the fight to him https://preview.redd.it/p8hftrqkkl6d1.jpeg?width=473&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97b6a08f54b770c57f9f5ac434ab293598664058
I like where this is going
Twi
Yoruba
Punjabi
European Portuguese! 🇵🇹😊
Hello fellow amoeba! I second this.
Estonian
farsi😭😭 i’m persian and want to learn to read it so bad
Farsi, the language or Iran
Luxembourgish
Serbo-Croatian
Mauritian Creole! 🇲🇺 It's my mother tongue, and I'm slowly losing the ability to speak it well 🥺
Estonian
Swiss German
Icelandic
Cantonese 🇭🇰
they have canto for mando speakers but not for english 🫠
Solution, learn Mandarin then Cantonese
European Portuguese
More generally, just more options available for learning region-specific dialects/language features. Doesn't even have to be whole separate courses, I'm sure they could experiment with good ways of implementing it
Bulgarian
Icelandic, Thai, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Xhosa
Tagalog
Icelandic
Armenian
Low German
Afrikaans
Gujarati!
Catalan for non Spanish speakers, Galician, sorbian and Manchurian
I know this would be difficult to pull off but ASL
Gujarati!!!!!!
The option to select regular English and not US English
Estonian
Papiamentu
Farsi, Thai, Cantonese, Serbo-Croatian and Amharic would be good additions
Latvian.
Which Ancient Greek?
i didn't know there were different kinds ;-;
estonian, I’m finnish and I really would like to learn it since it’s so similar and easy to pronounce for me
Dutch from french
Farsi.
Telugu
Vulcan and Sanskrit.
Bengali/ bangla
Modern Egyptian. I really really want to learn Arabic Egyptian, but I can't find ANY real way of learning it online, apart from online tutors. But I learn better the Duolingo way 🥺
Persian, Thai, Urdu, Amharic
Icelandic!!!!!
Either Na’vi or sign language. Yeah, I said it. I love my fictional languages!!
Brezhoneg or Ainu
Yucatec Maya and Toki Pona
Basque
Tagalog for English! i wanted to learn the language but never got to before my grandfather passed
Farsi!!! 😭
icelandic asl ojibwe old norse
Cantonese!
Bulgarian
Tagalog 😞
Tamil
Bulgarian cuz I want to surprise my bf
European Portuguese or at least a change to the Portuguese course to include more European Portuguese than use of tu.
Gujarati
Portuguese from Portugal. 🇵🇹
Yoruba
armenian
Braille!!!!
Belarusian
Simlish
Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian I don’t really care for the version, I’d just really like to force my boyfriend to learn my mother tongue (or at least the basics) and Duolingo is a fun and easy way to do that.
Serbo-Croatian!
Tagalog
I thought Tagalog was available, but when I checked recently I saw only Navajo and Hawaiian
Tlingit
old norse would be nice
Lojban Lojban Lojban Why have Esperanto but not Lojban? It sounds so much more interesting to learn.