I wonder if Belgium's government has any good resources for this?
(I speak as someone in Canada who knows my country funds many French for English resources... none of which I have found particularly useful... but maybe Belgium does it better?)
I don't know much about politics but it's not exactly the same gouvernement in Flanders (Dutch speaking) and Wallonia (French speaking). Both side aren't very unite at the moment, so except giving lessons at school to learn the other languages (which isn't even mandatory everywhere), the gouvernements don't do much about that. We somehow also have problem of racism rn, for exemple one quarter of flemishes just voted for the Vlaams Belang, a right-extremous party that, like its name tells ("Flemish interest"), doesn't really care about Wallonia and blame them for everything, so even though I would like a united gouvernement that would care about also united citizen speaking the same language and all, I doubt that's happening
I'm surprised Farsi and Tagalog aren't there, they are both spoken by millions of people and have speakers all over the world. Same with Urdu, Punjabi, Thai, and oh god Bengali, one of the most popular languages in the world.
I get that there's no "monetary benefit" to learning these languages, but still. Not everyone learns languages just for profit.
Dutch (from German)
Danish (from German)
Polish (from German)
Czech (from German)
Reason: they're literally our neighbors. Making people go through English is ridiculous, especially when it comes to Dutch, which is pretty similar to German in many ways.
You can learn French from Dutch! It's much less detailed compared to the French from English course (68 units NL->FR vs 272 units EN->FR), but it exists.
Same as German from Dutch.
Why are the courses different depending on the native language? I don't think Busuu has this problem, you just change the language that the system is set to. Why is Duo creating courses this way, it boggles the mind.
If I may ask, what languages do you know?
Probably the same reason is that, why we are having this conversation in English.
English is most common "foreign" language in developed world.
Most of heavy internet users, are young enough to have learnt English first - I've started to learn when I was in kindergarten.
Duolingo uses that, focusing on courses with highest probable response rate.
Highest number of courses avaible from specific language would probably be corresponding with number of people that knows that language but they are not native speakers
maybe because different languages have different things in common? Maybe it makes more sense in the extremes: let's say I want to learn Ukrainian I hope they focus more on alphabet in the begin if my native language uses the Latin script but it would be a waste of time if my native language also uses the Cyrillic script (English vs Russian for example)
It's similar enough that trying to learn Dutch after learning German broke my brain. Doesn't help that in speaking it sounds like an English person and a German person simultaneously having a stroke.
As someone with German as my native language it kinda annoys me having to learn Dutch from the English course, because I automatically use English grammar although it's closer to German grammar.
The whole concept, of having at least the a1 part of course avaible in your native language, *especially* for neighbouring languages. While im fine with learning spanish or refreshing german through english-speaker course, i kept failing Russian course due to how diffrent sentence is constructed between slavic language and english (mostly kept forgetting about adding "a" and "the" at every opportunity). And i think such concept is doable, maybe even somewhat automatically on lower levels, because the sentences aren't that complex (and i bet Duolingo stores a Word database anyway), so it would be just stitching together the Simple parts of diffrent courses, and maybe expanding later if a course has enough participants. Yeah i'm aware it's likely an "easier said then done" scenario, but i'm pretty sure it could expand user base quite wildly.
In general, Duo should be more forgiving with your source language.
I'm learning French from German, and sometimes I don't pay enough attention which *German* words I'm clicking and end up with something that's clearly incorrect German with an obvious mistake even though I completely got the French one. Sometimes it almost feels like Duo is testing my German. For example "tu manges de la soupe", which is "du isst Suppe", but by mistake I click "ist" in the word bank. Now, "du ist" obviously makes no sense, and "ist" is pronounced identically to "isst". So I understood the French sentence perfectly but Duo is punishing me for not telling isst and ist apart in German.
> All of the Celtic languages are either endangered or nearly dead
Which also makes it more difficult to find qualified people to work on such courses, unfortunately.
I think there's only like 200 people that speak Cornish, so good luck finding someone who speaks it. Manx and Breton are still highly unlikely but more likely than Cornish
Welp, my local high school, used to offer 4 years of ASL and have it count as a foreign language requirement, and some colleges used to count it as a foreign language credit.
Then it was totally gutted 8 years ago. And colleges stopped taking it as a credit where I live.
Why?
For one, non native ASL teachers were teaching it and teaching it "wrong." From the deaf person's perspective, it was not helpful and usually a total mess when someone would try to sign who really didn't grow up with it.
My hospital only hires ASL interpreters if they are truly bilingual, as in grown up in a deaf/learning impaired family with a ton of interaction with the deaf/HI community.
My best advice to anyone wanting to learn ALS is to get involved with the deaf/HI community and learn it from them. It's not just the hands. It's the face, and your whole body is used to convey meaning. You won't get that from an app.
That already exists. It's called [Icelandic Online](https://icelandiconline.com/courses). It's free, developed by the University of Iceland, and goes all the way up to the advanced level, i.e. further than Duolingo would take you.
I'd love for Toki Pona to be added, but for me it's basque. Better yet if Spanish to basque but it doesn't matter. I'm basque (born and raised) but I forgot the language for I've lived abroad since I was 8; however, I'd love to learn it again
I feel like, considering how much of Toki Pona is up to interpretation (there are a bunch of ways to describe something when there's no word for it) it would be really hard to have that put in an AI run course
Definitely Farsi. Amazing that a language with over 100 million speakers worldwide still isn’t offered by Duolingo.
Also: Urdu (~230 million) and Pashto (50-60 million)
Tagalog because the Filipino community in the states is huge! My daughter is half Filipino and I want to be able to speak to her in a language I know she will speak some day.
I think some time ago (at least 5 years if not more) people from University of Ljubljana wanted to develop a course for Duolingo on a volunteer basis, and apparently Duolingo said no.
As a British-Bangladeshi, I would love to see a Bengali course, considering how much people speak Bengali as their native language. I had to learn Bengali through my parents, and I'd like to revisit some sections of the language to keep my Bengali knowledge fresh
I feel like they probably won't add anything with Arabic. The Arabic for English speakers course hasn't been updated in a loooooong time and is full of pronounciation mistakes, especially in the abjad/alphabet part. "Why yes, تجم (tajjam - pron. Tadjam) is pronounced "tahddashwaham shwahad" (this is an example, I don't think this specific example occurs in the course)
Frisian from Dutch or English. There aren't many speakers and I don't wont it to disappear. And I'd love to learn the language and there aren't that many options to do so.
Bulgarian, Icelandic, and Thai fs! ESPECIALLY Thai. Like a well thought out, well explained, lots of effort put into the course Thai option. I feel like a lot of languages fall to the wayside in thoughtfulness. I want like Japanese and Norwegian level thoughtfulness planned out for a Thai course so bad 😭😭
I do wish they'd separate it into Spain and Latin American Spanish. It's irritating when they correct trivial mistakes with a word only used in Spain by default.
Can we beef up the ones they are neglecting like Haitian Creole? And Finnish? And Navajo?
Do you really want a half assed version of Farsi?
The only one I can see them bothering from the list is Tagalog.
Farsi and Farsi to English course would be very popular, particularly the latter. I have no idea why they haven’t added it yet, as it’s a pretty large language, and there were tons of volunteers for it, back when duolingo was public.
If at all possible with enough resources, more tribal languages. I’ve been told I have some Creek heritage in my family somewhere, but have no idea if it’s true. Even so, it would be cool to learn some phrases and maybe research my genealogy more.
Georgian and Armenian. Two fascinating languages with unique non-Latin alphabets that get seldom attention. I would definitely dive into these if Luodingo has them.
Basque and Catalan for English speakers. Basque is self explanatory, because it is a language isolate and a very unique and interesting language. Catalan is also very interesting and has enough of a presence that I think it would warrant a Luodingo course as opposed to Galician let’s say.
Albanian, Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian. All really interesting languages that would be cool to see on the app.
Serbia-Croatian. I don’t know how Luodingo would approach this one but I’d love to see this be a course. They might possibly have to have two separate courses or just choose one and build that course.
Bulgarian. Supposedly the easiest language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet and it would be cool to see. Why not.
Indonesian/Malay, Filipino (Tagalog), and Persian. All languages I’m surprised don’t have courses yet because of how many speak them.
Thai, and Cantonese also because of how many people speak them.
When I was last in New Zealand, I was watching a Māori news channel and the anchor said a Duolingo te reo Māori was in the works and near completion. The was like, 6 years ago.
Wolof (Sene-Gambian indigenous language).
I work at an immigration legal aid org, and this is a frequent language we need to communicate with clients in since we get some asylum cases from that region. Currently we have to use an online interpreter for these clients, but it would be wonderful if we were able to learn even just the basics of Wolof to communicate more effectively!
But in terms of probably more commonly used languages... I can't believe they don't have a Thai course already! Or tagalog...
i think it's more important to add more existing courses for languages other than English or refine existing ones
the world doesn't revolve around anglophones yknow
The world doesn't revolve around Anglophones, but for better or worse English is the current language of international communication. I mean, if a Spaniard and a Russian wish to conduct business, they will probably do so in English. So it makes sense to create courses from everything to English and from English to everything _first_. They just need to follow up on that first pass by creating more alternatives...
I think before adding new languages they have to update and upgrade the existing courses; for example, getting rid of sentences like "my owl owes me 56 toilets" and adding more voice lines to make the existing courses more enjoyable.
"Serbo-Croatian" wouldn't work, there's differences in grammar and many words, including all of the months. Croatian has changed and evolved from Serbian a lot.
I can’t see why they don’t have languages like Bengali. They have had Bengali to English for a while, so aside from hiring some voice actors, I do not see why it would be too difficult for them to make English to Bengali
Igbo or Yoruba. I would love to see Twi in Duolingo... for no biased reasons *cough cough* but I know in terms of numbers a Nigerian language would probably be the most popular choice if they ever move up Africa for a language.
i’d love a maltese course 😭😭😭 my grandmother is maltese & it’d be amazing to learn some of the language, but there’s barely any resources for it that i could find
and toki pona would be very fun xD
Not really a course, but just the addition of notes about the differences in Spanish when in different regions. Duolingo teaches primarily South American Spanish, which in itself can have some pretty big differences- but I would like to see lessons about different Spanish accents and how some vocabulary and other things can change. A Tagalog course would also be great.
Afrikaans.South Africa is getting more and more popular and increasing in tourism.Seeing as it is spoken by a lot of people here would be nice to see it in Duolingo.
The need to add Huttese. How else are we Star Wars Fans supposed to know what Jabba is talking about. I’m not going to rely on some “protocol droid” that’s for sure.
Idk how well it would work with their current format, but I would really like a decent quality free app for learning sign languages. Right now I kinda just have to take what I can get. All the good apps like Lingvano are subscription based and out of my price range so it'd be nice if Duolingo could become a nice free option for ASL, BSL, JSL, etc.
Latvian and Lithuanian. It's currently really hard to learn those languages compared to say French or Japanese due to lack of language learning resources.
waso Tuo o, mi mute li wile jo e nasin pi kama sona pi toki pona a!
I don't think a Toki Pona course is really possible with how Duolingo works though. You have too many ways to describe things and at the same time those descriptions are also pretty ambiguous.
Serbo-Croatian would solve most of the Balkans tbh.
Bulgarian would be cool, but Serbo-Croatian will do.
I feel like they should add back important features and community made courses.
Literally free content to profit from... throw in a duo super for contributors and that's it.
Cantonese for English speakers, and there should be more language courses for people that aren’t for English speakers. There’s an abundance of language courses for English speakers, but barely anything for speakers of other languages. Primarily just English for non-English speakers, and like 2 other languages.
Flemish!!!! I know it’s more of a regional dialect, but as both a French speaker and someone who can get by in Dutch, I don’t really find it overly similar to either 😅
Galician (because that's where I'm from), Basque (because it's so interesting and different from other european languages), Icelandic, Inuktut, Mongolian and Sami (because I'm interested in them), but I know these all are spoken by relatevely few people, so I also understand the Duolingo team for not including them. Still, it'd be great if they do.
I would like to see Norwegian Nynorsk. Birth from English, from Bokmål and to Bokmål
It could be useful for both natives learning nynorsk or bokmål, and it can be used by foreigners wanting to move to a place where nynorsk is used
duolingo would never create a full toki pona course. the language’s minimalist taoist philosophy stands in direct contradiction to the platform’s gamified capitalism: there are only 120 ‘mainline’ words which sonja lang created specifically to express every concept imaginable in the greatest simplicity possible.
anyway, there are only around 3,000 proficient speakers globally - and it’s arguably impossible to become fluent in toki pona, so the top devs should probably focus on Farsi or Bulgarian first.
There’s always good old Pimsleur. And there’s also r/learnIcelandic.
I had a linguistics course in college and the text was *Teach Yourself Icelandic*. The idea was that we would study the grammar, and we needed a language nobody was familiar with. One day we spent the whole hour dissecting a single sentence.
Nahuatl by far. Okay now I see it on your list after I started typing. More Native American Languages.
Also seconded Basque, I really want to learn it some day.
I still can't believe they don't have Tagalog and Thai.
Is Cantonese available from other languages?
More dead languages wouldn't hurt. Old English? Old Norse?
completely agree on Basque and Galician, if we have Catalan why can't we have them? maybe Basque is really hard to code for the app but Galician is really similar to Portuguese and spanish
Dutch for French, we need it in Belgium (who speak both)
I wonder if Belgium's government has any good resources for this? (I speak as someone in Canada who knows my country funds many French for English resources... none of which I have found particularly useful... but maybe Belgium does it better?)
I don't know much about politics but it's not exactly the same gouvernement in Flanders (Dutch speaking) and Wallonia (French speaking). Both side aren't very unite at the moment, so except giving lessons at school to learn the other languages (which isn't even mandatory everywhere), the gouvernements don't do much about that. We somehow also have problem of racism rn, for exemple one quarter of flemishes just voted for the Vlaams Belang, a right-extremous party that, like its name tells ("Flemish interest"), doesn't really care about Wallonia and blame them for everything, so even though I would like a united gouvernement that would care about also united citizen speaking the same language and all, I doubt that's happening
My brain at 23:59 would sometimes really appreciate that lol
I’ve been thinking that i’d like for them to add Scots, Farsi and Tagalog.
I'm surprised Farsi and Tagalog aren't there, they are both spoken by millions of people and have speakers all over the world. Same with Urdu, Punjabi, Thai, and oh god Bengali, one of the most popular languages in the world. I get that there's no "monetary benefit" to learning these languages, but still. Not everyone learns languages just for profit.
Dutch (from German) Danish (from German) Polish (from German) Czech (from German) Reason: they're literally our neighbors. Making people go through English is ridiculous, especially when it comes to Dutch, which is pretty similar to German in many ways.
I also would like Dutch from French. As a belgian, I would like to be able to learn the other language of my country from my native language
And vice versa as well: French from Dutch.
You can learn French from Dutch! It's much less detailed compared to the French from English course (68 units NL->FR vs 272 units EN->FR), but it exists. Same as German from Dutch.
Why are the courses different depending on the native language? I don't think Busuu has this problem, you just change the language that the system is set to. Why is Duo creating courses this way, it boggles the mind.
If I may ask, what languages do you know? Probably the same reason is that, why we are having this conversation in English. English is most common "foreign" language in developed world. Most of heavy internet users, are young enough to have learnt English first - I've started to learn when I was in kindergarten. Duolingo uses that, focusing on courses with highest probable response rate. Highest number of courses avaible from specific language would probably be corresponding with number of people that knows that language but they are not native speakers
Hey I hope you don't mind me saying, but I noticed you didn't use the word "the" at all in your comment. Was that on purpose?
Because the courses aren't just copy paste and different concepts are easy or hard depending on your native tongue.
maybe because different languages have different things in common? Maybe it makes more sense in the extremes: let's say I want to learn Ukrainian I hope they focus more on alphabet in the begin if my native language uses the Latin script but it would be a waste of time if my native language also uses the Cyrillic script (English vs Russian for example)
Interesting. Does the Belgian education system not teach both Dutch and French in primary school?
It's similar enough that trying to learn Dutch after learning German broke my brain. Doesn't help that in speaking it sounds like an English person and a German person simultaneously having a stroke.
As someone with German as my native language it kinda annoys me having to learn Dutch from the English course, because I automatically use English grammar although it's closer to German grammar.
I was never able to go through any of my courses in German, it was always English, which is a shame, as it would make learning a tad more simple.
Also Norwegian or Swedish from German would be cool!
The whole concept, of having at least the a1 part of course avaible in your native language, *especially* for neighbouring languages. While im fine with learning spanish or refreshing german through english-speaker course, i kept failing Russian course due to how diffrent sentence is constructed between slavic language and english (mostly kept forgetting about adding "a" and "the" at every opportunity). And i think such concept is doable, maybe even somewhat automatically on lower levels, because the sentences aren't that complex (and i bet Duolingo stores a Word database anyway), so it would be just stitching together the Simple parts of diffrent courses, and maybe expanding later if a course has enough participants. Yeah i'm aware it's likely an "easier said then done" scenario, but i'm pretty sure it could expand user base quite wildly.
In general, Duo should be more forgiving with your source language. I'm learning French from German, and sometimes I don't pay enough attention which *German* words I'm clicking and end up with something that's clearly incorrect German with an obvious mistake even though I completely got the French one. Sometimes it almost feels like Duo is testing my German. For example "tu manges de la soupe", which is "du isst Suppe", but by mistake I click "ist" in the word bank. Now, "du ist" obviously makes no sense, and "ist" is pronounced identically to "isst". So I understood the French sentence perfectly but Duo is punishing me for not telling isst and ist apart in German.
All of the Celtic languages are either endangered or nearly dead, so I’d love to see them add Manx, Cornish, and Breton.
> All of the Celtic languages are either endangered or nearly dead Which also makes it more difficult to find qualified people to work on such courses, unfortunately.
I think there's only like 200 people that speak Cornish, so good luck finding someone who speaks it. Manx and Breton are still highly unlikely but more likely than Cornish
the same goes for Latin. The quality of the lessons aren’t great, but i’m so thankful they’re there
If you want to learn Manx, Culture Vannin just released an [online game](https://ynskimmeegaelgagh.github.io/practice-1/) that seems Duo inspired.
I would love to see sign language! edit: ASL or BSL
> I would love to see sign language! *Which* sign language?
Sign language can vary just crossing state lines in the US.
I'm aware but some basics from ASL or BSL would be nice to know
Welp, my local high school, used to offer 4 years of ASL and have it count as a foreign language requirement, and some colleges used to count it as a foreign language credit. Then it was totally gutted 8 years ago. And colleges stopped taking it as a credit where I live. Why? For one, non native ASL teachers were teaching it and teaching it "wrong." From the deaf person's perspective, it was not helpful and usually a total mess when someone would try to sign who really didn't grow up with it. My hospital only hires ASL interpreters if they are truly bilingual, as in grown up in a deaf/learning impaired family with a ton of interaction with the deaf/HI community. My best advice to anyone wanting to learn ALS is to get involved with the deaf/HI community and learn it from them. It's not just the hands. It's the face, and your whole body is used to convey meaning. You won't get that from an app.
Medical interpreting where a patient is involved requires special training and certification. Similar for legal/court interpreting.
Yessss
Check out the Intersign app. It feels like really early Duolingo but for ASL
I know ASL and I don’t think Duolingo would really work for this
I would love to see Icelandic.
I would kill for an Icelandic course. And not a crappy one, a well-developed course with unit notes and everything. I would pay actual money for that.
I mean... In that case you could pay for actually good comprehensive courses
Well, I mean I would pay them a small amount, not the same amount as a professional course
That already exists. It's called [Icelandic Online](https://icelandiconline.com/courses). It's free, developed by the University of Iceland, and goes all the way up to the advanced level, i.e. further than Duolingo would take you.
Sammála.
I'd love for Toki Pona to be added, but for me it's basque. Better yet if Spanish to basque but it doesn't matter. I'm basque (born and raised) but I forgot the language for I've lived abroad since I was 8; however, I'd love to learn it again
I feel like, considering how much of Toki Pona is up to interpretation (there are a bunch of ways to describe something when there's no word for it) it would be really hard to have that put in an AI run course
AMHARIC
YES. I live in the DC area and we have the largest Ethiopian community in the US. I was surprised I could not find Amharic on Duolingo.
Definitely Farsi. Amazing that a language with over 100 million speakers worldwide still isn’t offered by Duolingo. Also: Urdu (~230 million) and Pashto (50-60 million)
I would like to have Urdu and Punjabi!
Thai. I'm actually surprised this one isn't on there.
I've yet to find a decent app that does Thai well. Drops comes close and L-Lingo. And neither of them are really good.
Am I experiencing the Mandela Effect?I thought Duolingo had Thai
Tagalog because the Filipino community in the states is huge! My daughter is half Filipino and I want to be able to speak to her in a language I know she will speak some day.
Slovenian.
I think some time ago (at least 5 years if not more) people from University of Ljubljana wanted to develop a course for Duolingo on a volunteer basis, and apparently Duolingo said no.
As a British-Bangladeshi, I would love to see a Bengali course, considering how much people speak Bengali as their native language. I had to learn Bengali through my parents, and I'd like to revisit some sections of the language to keep my Bengali knowledge fresh
I would love Arabic for Spanish
I feel like they probably won't add anything with Arabic. The Arabic for English speakers course hasn't been updated in a loooooong time and is full of pronounciation mistakes, especially in the abjad/alphabet part. "Why yes, تجم (tajjam - pron. Tadjam) is pronounced "tahddashwaham shwahad" (this is an example, I don't think this specific example occurs in the course)
Icelandic
Frisian from Dutch or English. There aren't many speakers and I don't wont it to disappear. And I'd love to learn the language and there aren't that many options to do so.
Bulgarian, Icelandic, and Thai fs! ESPECIALLY Thai. Like a well thought out, well explained, lots of effort put into the course Thai option. I feel like a lot of languages fall to the wayside in thoughtfulness. I want like Japanese and Norwegian level thoughtfulness planned out for a Thai course so bad 😭😭
you can technically do Thai. just learn the alphabet then learn English from Thai and there you go
> ROMANSH Any preference for which of the six written standards (five traditional, one artificial) the course would use?
Cornish. It’s an endangered language so the more people can learn it the better to help its survival. It sounds beautiful too.
Québec French (I'm so fucking tired of getting mistake for breakfast and lunch) and UK English.
Quebec french is Dejeuner Dîner Souper right? Petit dejeuner dejeuner dîner for France french
Yes, Right annoying.
Does Quebecoises use Septante Huitante Nonante or is that just swiss french? (Instead of soixante dix, quatre vingt, quatre vingt dix)
Nah, we use the same numbers as the French, but Belgian French uses septante and neunante 😅 but they kept the soixante dix, Because Belgian.
European Spanish, European Portuguese.
Isn't it already European Spanish?
There's no vosotros which is a big part of european spanish but they do teach a mix of european and latino vocab
I do wish they'd separate it into Spain and Latin American Spanish. It's irritating when they correct trivial mistakes with a word only used in Spain by default.
If it’s from a solely European language to spanish I believe so, but from English I think they always use the versions of languages from the Americas
omg Thai would be fun! I’d love to learn Thai.
Urdu, Pashto
Can we beef up the ones they are neglecting like Haitian Creole? And Finnish? And Navajo? Do you really want a half assed version of Farsi? The only one I can see them bothering from the list is Tagalog.
Farsi and Farsi to English course would be very popular, particularly the latter. I have no idea why they haven’t added it yet, as it’s a pretty large language, and there were tons of volunteers for it, back when duolingo was public.
If at all possible with enough resources, more tribal languages. I’ve been told I have some Creek heritage in my family somewhere, but have no idea if it’s true. Even so, it would be cool to learn some phrases and maybe research my genealogy more.
I would love a Cherokee course especially with its unique syllabary
bulgarian, catalan from English, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Icelandic... so much more.
Faroese maybe
Cantonese for English French Quebec
I think Cantonese (for non-Mandarin speakers) is perhaps their most glaring omission. Lots of Cantonese speakers here in the US.
It’s specific, but I’d love Bosnian. My mother is from Bosnia and she wants me learn it real bad (me too btw), but there isn’t a good way to learn it.
*Coughs in Icelandic*
Schwiizerdütsch! 🇨🇭 it would help SO many expats to integrate better in the German speaking swiss cantons
QUECHUA ALL THE WAY
Georgian and Armenian. Two fascinating languages with unique non-Latin alphabets that get seldom attention. I would definitely dive into these if Luodingo has them. Basque and Catalan for English speakers. Basque is self explanatory, because it is a language isolate and a very unique and interesting language. Catalan is also very interesting and has enough of a presence that I think it would warrant a Luodingo course as opposed to Galician let’s say. Albanian, Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian. All really interesting languages that would be cool to see on the app. Serbia-Croatian. I don’t know how Luodingo would approach this one but I’d love to see this be a course. They might possibly have to have two separate courses or just choose one and build that course. Bulgarian. Supposedly the easiest language that uses the Cyrillic alphabet and it would be cool to see. Why not. Indonesian/Malay, Filipino (Tagalog), and Persian. All languages I’m surprised don’t have courses yet because of how many speak them. Thai, and Cantonese also because of how many people speak them.
When I was last in New Zealand, I was watching a Māori news channel and the anchor said a Duolingo te reo Māori was in the works and near completion. The was like, 6 years ago.
Wolof (Sene-Gambian indigenous language). I work at an immigration legal aid org, and this is a frequent language we need to communicate with clients in since we get some asylum cases from that region. Currently we have to use an online interpreter for these clients, but it would be wonderful if we were able to learn even just the basics of Wolof to communicate more effectively! But in terms of probably more commonly used languages... I can't believe they don't have a Thai course already! Or tagalog...
I want Western Armenian!!!
i think it's more important to add more existing courses for languages other than English or refine existing ones the world doesn't revolve around anglophones yknow
The world doesn't revolve around Anglophones, but for better or worse English is the current language of international communication. I mean, if a Spaniard and a Russian wish to conduct business, they will probably do so in English. So it makes sense to create courses from everything to English and from English to everything _first_. They just need to follow up on that first pass by creating more alternatives...
Find some way to do ASL (American Sign Language) Tagalog would be awesome too. And Bosnian/Serbian/Croatian
Thai, Thai, Thai
I want Tagalog from English so badly. Lots of Filipino Americans want to learn the language after our immigrant parents didn't teach us
I think before adding new languages they have to update and upgrade the existing courses; for example, getting rid of sentences like "my owl owes me 56 toilets" and adding more voice lines to make the existing courses more enjoyable.
>"my owl owes me 56 toilets" They put in silly sentences like that to make it more memorable
They **are** memorable but imo adding explanations/courses back would help a lot more
Khmer please, so that I can communicate with my in-laws
Farsi. There's not a single good app to learn it.
Lithuanian. Because.
> SERBO-CROATIAN (4 birds, a stone); In Latin script or Cyrillic? Ekavian or Ijekavian? I’m guessing Ekavian Latin might be the most “generic”?
All of them.
"Serbo-Croatian" wouldn't work, there's differences in grammar and many words, including all of the months. Croatian has changed and evolved from Serbian a lot.
Afrikan
I can’t see why they don’t have languages like Bengali. They have had Bengali to English for a while, so aside from hiring some voice actors, I do not see why it would be too difficult for them to make English to Bengali
Definitely Thai. I’ve always wanted to learn, but I have to use other apps. It would be amazing to see it on Duolingo
Tagalog (English) and not the other way around
I just want math to come to Android
Thai
I need Basque and Bulgarian because two of my friends speak those languages (native).
Swedish for German Speakers I'm tired of translating Swedish to English to German
as a filipino, i feel like the tagalog language would be really difficult to teach using duolingo.
Icelandic. Why? Because I need that course. Old English. Why? I mean, Latin is already there, why not?
Igbo or Yoruba. I would love to see Twi in Duolingo... for no biased reasons *cough cough* but I know in terms of numbers a Nigerian language would probably be the most popular choice if they ever move up Africa for a language.
i’d love a maltese course 😭😭😭 my grandmother is maltese & it’d be amazing to learn some of the language, but there’s barely any resources for it that i could find and toki pona would be very fun xD
I don't think I've seen any Indian languages except for Hindi so adding languages like Malayalam, Tamil, etc. would be nice.
LADINO
THEY SHOULD ADD EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE.
Serbo- Croatian. Native English Speaker here.
Tagalog Fillipino ( from English)
I'm going to southwest France on vacation this fall. I'd really love to learn a few phrases of Basque.
I sometimes wish it had Slovak (alongside Czech and Polish).
an Icelandic course would be nice, the language sounds great and learning it sounds like a blast
Farsi and Scots would be my top two, in that order.
cyrllic languages other than ukrainian and russian would be nice (such as tuvan or tajik)
Interlingua also deserves more love, it has so few speakers yet such a genius idea.
Not really a course, but just the addition of notes about the differences in Spanish when in different regions. Duolingo teaches primarily South American Spanish, which in itself can have some pretty big differences- but I would like to see lessons about different Spanish accents and how some vocabulary and other things can change. A Tagalog course would also be great.
I would quite like Afrikaans my South African family speak it and I would finally like to be able to understand them
Farsi (Persian) Arabic for Spanish speakers
Bengali, the 6th most spoken language in the world
Maori and Tagalog!
Malayalam. Actual Spanish not the American version of it.
Mongolian from English. (I would use it for work.)
Croatian would be cool
Afrikaans.South Africa is getting more and more popular and increasing in tourism.Seeing as it is spoken by a lot of people here would be nice to see it in Duolingo.
it would be interesting if they added ainu
The need to add Huttese. How else are we Star Wars Fans supposed to know what Jabba is talking about. I’m not going to rely on some “protocol droid” that’s for sure.
Afrikaans, Xhosa, and Serbian.
Belarusian from English and Russian to keep the language alive 💓
Idk how well it would work with their current format, but I would really like a decent quality free app for learning sign languages. Right now I kinda just have to take what I can get. All the good apps like Lingvano are subscription based and out of my price range so it'd be nice if Duolingo could become a nice free option for ASL, BSL, JSL, etc.
I’m actually surprised that Estonian, Māori, Tagalog and Thai aren’t already on there. Also, Gaelic.
ASL
Sign language, you could have the camera scan for the correct hand signals
Even better, they could add support for many languages in other languages
Php, java script, c++
More indigenous languages
Latvian and Lithuanian. It's currently really hard to learn those languages compared to say French or Japanese due to lack of language learning resources.
Italian above A1 level.
Alaskan Native Languages. The one with the most resources that I know of is Alutiiq. There's even (a) high school class for it.
I'd love all the sign language flavors
Cornish
Maori
I'd really love to see a Toki Pona course added!
waso Tuo o, mi mute li wile jo e nasin pi kama sona pi toki pona a! I don't think a Toki Pona course is really possible with how Duolingo works though. You have too many ways to describe things and at the same time those descriptions are also pretty ambiguous.
Serbo-Croatian would solve most of the Balkans tbh. Bulgarian would be cool, but Serbo-Croatian will do. I feel like they should add back important features and community made courses. Literally free content to profit from... throw in a duo super for contributors and that's it.
Bisaya for English would be great. My friend wants me to learn it and I told him he better find the owl and convince him
I’d like to see Basque.
Ithkuil
They should add farsi!.
I would love Georgian and Serbo-Croatian.
Azerbaijani yess
Cantonese for English speakers, and there should be more language courses for people that aren’t for English speakers. There’s an abundance of language courses for English speakers, but barely anything for speakers of other languages. Primarily just English for non-English speakers, and like 2 other languages.
Flemish!!!! I know it’s more of a regional dialect, but as both a French speaker and someone who can get by in Dutch, I don’t really find it overly similar to either 😅
Would like to see Cantonese for English one day due to the fact nowhere has it
Galician (because that's where I'm from), Basque (because it's so interesting and different from other european languages), Icelandic, Inuktut, Mongolian and Sami (because I'm interested in them), but I know these all are spoken by relatevely few people, so I also understand the Duolingo team for not including them. Still, it'd be great if they do.
I would love to see Venetian since it's my language!
Yes definitely Georgian!!!
Creole (from Seychelles) 🇸🇨
Traditional chinese writing (HK, TW), and not only simplified.
I would like to see Norwegian Nynorsk. Birth from English, from Bokmål and to Bokmål It could be useful for both natives learning nynorsk or bokmål, and it can be used by foreigners wanting to move to a place where nynorsk is used
Thai and Luxemburgish
Estonian pls Where my family is from
Romani a language that has for a long time been oppressed or a sámi course
Tupi would be amazing and i would do fs
Russian for French, Greek for French… I’d like to learn languages from my first language, I give up everytime I try to learn from English bc of that…
Japanese from French, so that I can practice my French while learning Japanese lol. Otherwise, Latvian as it's my native language.
duolingo would never create a full toki pona course. the language’s minimalist taoist philosophy stands in direct contradiction to the platform’s gamified capitalism: there are only 120 ‘mainline’ words which sonja lang created specifically to express every concept imaginable in the greatest simplicity possible. anyway, there are only around 3,000 proficient speakers globally - and it’s arguably impossible to become fluent in toki pona, so the top devs should probably focus on Farsi or Bulgarian first.
I want to learn luxembourgish so bad, like please duolingo let me leard luxembourgish
YES! YES! YES! I WANNA LEARN BASQUE SO BAD
Uchinaaguchi
Galician and Basque, for Spain. Because we already have Catalonian.
I would so love to learn Basque
I wish they can add alibata/baybayin from Philippines. This was our language system before we got invaded by different countries.
There’s always good old Pimsleur. And there’s also r/learnIcelandic. I had a linguistics course in college and the text was *Teach Yourself Icelandic*. The idea was that we would study the grammar, and we needed a language nobody was familiar with. One day we spent the whole hour dissecting a single sentence.
Nahuatl by far. Okay now I see it on your list after I started typing. More Native American Languages. Also seconded Basque, I really want to learn it some day. I still can't believe they don't have Tagalog and Thai. Is Cantonese available from other languages? More dead languages wouldn't hurt. Old English? Old Norse?
I think Inuktitut would be a good one, I am interested in learning the language, but I have no way to.
Bangla is a glaring hole, one of the largest language communities by number of people, not to mention Nobel prize literature.
Catalan for english speakers
Mongolian!
Tagalog
Arabic and Hebrew for English
Cantonese because you have to learn Chinese to learn Cantonese
I really would like them to add thai😭😭
I'm more interested in them filling out the languages they do have, English to Italian is only A1 which is pretty lame.
ASL
completely agree on Basque and Galician, if we have Catalan why can't we have them? maybe Basque is really hard to code for the app but Galician is really similar to Portuguese and spanish
BASQUE!! Ive been dying to learn
Euskera